[odawg]

“Some, myself included, are calling it a forerunner to that ignominious marking spelled out in Revelation 13 as the mark of the beast.”

If you take the mark of the beast literally, then you also have to take the other remarks of the writer literally, such as giving life to an image so that it speaks, etc. The mark of the beast is as much an act of worshsip as an act of obedience, according to the context.

Buy and sell mark? We already have that in paper money, Social Security numbers, email addresses, etc.

The mark of the beast as you understand it is already operative in China. Do you find the false prophet there, the antichrist? These regimes don’t really care about worship, they care about control and enslavement.

The Roman emperors required documents of allegiance from each person in order to do business, which is where the idea in Revelations comes from.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The religious aspect of this transactional model is coming in the near future. Although I would say Xi’s religious like status is a definite forerunner…

https://www2.cbn.com/news/news/communist-china-reportedly-rewriting-bible-and-calling-jesus-sinner-thats-not-all

[Bob434]

[[such as giving life to an image so that it speaks, etc]]

Ai and such are already animating things like old,photos where the person in photo moves, smiles, winces, or whatever, moves .their mouths etc, and appears to be alive and speaking.

The mark though as you point out will be a “pledge of obedience to, and worship of, the beast” and will be required to receive the mark. But, the who’s proposal could very well be a precursor to the mark, and will be a proto- version of it I that it will restrict or allow buying and selling, breaking people financially. Making them desperate enough that they will consent to taking tha mark just to feed their families and be able to freely move about without persecution.

[dragonblustar]

Some things to think about.

The man the WEF call the prophet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpv5qd32dBE

World dictator
https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-making-of-a-global-dictator/

WEF wants to rewrite the Bible
https://www.westernjournal.com/wefs-terrifying-new-mission-calls-ai-write-unifying-new-bible-create-religions-actually-correct/

Third temple
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/the-third-temple/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230605-the-israelis-set-for-new-jewish-temple-on-al-aqsa-site

This may not be the actual mark of the beast but WHO is working with WEF and they have plans to control the world in a demonic way.

[glaseatr]

In all the examples you listed, you failed to mention the last part of the mark. It is going to be either on your forehead, or right hand.

Depending on where in the body the WHO decides to inject this chip. We might have definitive answers on the question. Is this the mark as described in Rev.