It would be VERY hard to resist, assuming you even knew what the implications were.
Likely most Christians would not be able to resist the mark...
Watch your kids starve or take the mark...
Die of pneumonia or take the mark...
Freeze to death in the Northern States in winter or take the mark...
Have your head chopped off or take the mark...
Thank God we Christians won't have to make those choices...
Rev_3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Excellent...
Tain't what the Book says...
Revelation 20:4
Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Beheading#sthash.DCLLZWfx.dpuf