[Quix]

You really haven’t researched this more than the depth of an onion skin, have you.

[taxcontrol]

Actually I have researched quite a bit. However, during my years spent overly fascinated (i.e. worried) with the end times, I ran across this scripture and the good Lord spoke clarity to me in that moment.

Luke 12:22-26 (NIV)
22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
23 Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
26 Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

In that moment of clarity, I realized that God's will will unfold as HE desires. It does not matter if we are in the end times or not, God is in control.

Further, there have been other "mark" hysterics in the past. Social Security numbers, tattoos, debit cards, etc. These hysterics are but the foolishness of men.