[Truth666]

Christ can come back at any time.
Again, this is not what I'm discussing. I'm discussing humans accepting to carry the mark of the beast.

[ScottM1968]

The "Mark of the Beast" is also an optional thing (if it has not already come and gone) should Christ come back tonight.

When Paul had to instruct the early church against their giving away of possessions dur to the thought that Christ was coming back that week, you must be able to see the problem we have with ever believing we know better than they that all the signs in Revelation and elsewhere are fulfilled.

And they didn't have Social Security numbers.