The Mark of the Lamb

The mark of the beast is not a literal physical tattoo it's instead a symbol. If you use your hand to toss incense into the pan to worship the emperor putting your head in your hand in the service of emperor worship could be understood as okay that's how the mark manifests in you. The book of revelation was written differently than every other scriptural book in the bible and there is very clear ties to the Old Testament which evoke a lot of prayer when i'm praying through the book of revelation. Why did john write in this manner? There are a number of ways of potentially answering that question by the way before i forget since we were just talking about the number of the beast i did