[we might be asked or even ordered to get a bar code tattooed on us]
The word in Revelation 13:16 for “mark” is the Greek word for a mark of ownership.
Such as a tattoo - perhaps similar to how one marks cattle by branding.
Or how Hitler’s Nazis branded Jews with tattoo numbers for identification purposes.
Revelation 13:16 Greek - English Bible
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/revelation/13-16.htm
5480 [e]
charagma
χάραγμα
a mark
N-ANS
(it’s in the middle of the translations; to the furthest right - FWIW)
The word for “mark” in Revelation 13:16 is “charagma”
Greek word “charagma”:
https://biblehub.com/greek/5480.htm
Strong’s Concordance
charagma: a stamp, impress
Original Word: χάραγμα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: charagma
Phonetic Spelling: (khar’-ag-mah)
Definition: a stamp, impress
Usage: sculpture; engraving, a stamp, sign.
HELPS Word-studies
5480 xáragma – properly, an engraving (etching); (figuratively) a mark providing undeniable identification, like a symbol giving irrefutable connection between parties.
5480 /xáragma (”brand-mark”) was originally any impress on a coin or a seal, used by an engraver on a die (stamp, branding iron). 5480 (xáragma) later became “the identification-marker” (like with an owner’s unique “brand-mark”).
OK, so there is something to this.
Thanks to you both for responding to my comment.
I see this as a test of faith: Want to be part of the human world, get the mark (tattoo, chip, whatever) and forsake God. Refuse to get the mark, struggle without being part of the human world, forsake that world, but inherit the Grace of God.
I know neither I nor my Dad will EVER get any such mark or chip. Will do my best to convince others not to, especially my brother and his wife (but they never listens to me). My Mom has passed, so not worried there (she had faith).
PS The most convincing thing about this to me — besides my faith — is there is no way the people who wrote (OK technically translated God’s Word into) the books of the Bible could get this so accurately unless inspired by God.