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The Mark of the Beast
If there is a future fulfilment of the mark of the beast, what can we say about it with confidence? Any such fulfilment would be modelled on the one that occurred in the first century. It will involve worshipping a major political leader as a deity. The antichrist will order incense pans be set up by all everywhere so no one among the saints may be able to buy or sell without first sacrificing them. This is what is meant by the mark received upon the right hand. We don't have a lot of early commentaries on this specific passage of revelation,. But around a d two 33, the ay church father hippolytus wrote this in his treatise