Scripture reveals that the Antichrist will require everyone to receive a mark on their hand or forehead during the seven-year tribulation. This mandatory mark will enable them to buy and sell within the world’s commercial system. Revelation 13:16-17 states, “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Given the necessity of this mark for commerce and the technological advances of modern times, many speculate that the mark will be an implanted microchip containing personal and banking information. However, the Greek word for “a mark” throughout the book of Revelation means “a stamp, or imprinted mark.” Therefore, it is possible that “the mark of the beast” could be a QR code tattoo encoded with each person’s pertinent information and branded on their hand or forehead. Or “the mark” could simply be the name or number of the beast. Since we are not given details or specifics in Scripture, these suggested possibilities are purely speculative.
Regardless of the type of mark required for those living during the Antichrist’s satanic rule and reign, it is imperative that they refuse it. Why? Because Scripture declares in Revelation 14:9-11 that those who accept the mark are pledging allegiance to Satan and cannot be saved. It states, “Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.’”
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