Its interesting how we see so much attention being given to the mark of the beast prophecy, yet the image of the beast that comes before that gets almost no attention. This 'image' will be the ultimate false idol the world will be forced to worship on the penalty of death, yet everyone is very hush about it by comparison. I find that astounding, considering that this 'image' speaks as if its a living being. This is an 'image' that the world makes themselves, not the Antichrist, which makes it even more interesting in light of the hype concerning trans humanism.
I just think there are other things that should be getting just as much if not more attention than the mark of the beast. My simple observation of the mark beast is that there is no true way to know what it will be, only that it will be a physical object of some type, and not because its something that goes "in" you, but because it is tied to economic coercion. The easiest way they can coerce the world into taking it is by changing the medium of exchange to a digital currency. I can make a thread dedicated just to the mark of the best, but really, a push to totally digitize our currency is the thing we should be looking for.