The most popular interpretation of the Mark Of The Beast is an actual physical mark such as the RFID chip or a tattoo. But with spiritual matters, it's only the spiritual side of the matter that really matters. So what's the spiritual element of the subdermal chip? It's the identity that the chip binds you to, and tracks through everything you do with the chip. Realize that if you wear that mark on your soul, the physical chip is irrelevant. And realize that you are already wearing it. In our present society, you cannot own a house, drive a car, cross a border, buy or sell (at least not with plastic), or myriad other things that you take for granted, unless you bear the Mark. This builds a lot on the philosophies of the 'sovereign citizen/freemen on the land' movement - those folks really know what they're talking about, they just haven't made the biblical connection yet. They understand that your birth certificate identity is a corporate asset created fraudulently on your behalf without your consent. (This is when you are first marked.) Note that your legal name on the birth certificate is ALL CAPS denoting a corporate entity, owned by the corporate entity that created it - the government. So when you identify with this asset that is the property of the government, then you make yourself property of the government. The government (the Beast) is a private corporation born out of the law of corporations, Maritime Law (the sea). It must be understood that there is no such thing as a public entity - such an entity would have to wholly represent the will of the public, every member, but the wills of men are diverse, therefore it is impossible for such an entity to exist. Some more scriptural references to back this up: Rev. 13:1 Rev. 17 - The beast is described having 7 heads - associated with the 7 great empires that have ruled the world through history: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and finally western Democracy. Note that that last one is my own spin - the 7th is more commonly interpreted to be the yet-to-come NWO global government, but I think that version is being exploited for disinfo just like the RFID chip - if people are focused on the oppression yet to come, they won't see the oppression they've been living under their entire lives. Rev. 13:3 "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered and followed the beast." - I believe this is about Democracy making it look like the beast is slain, tricking people into believing they can rule themselves through democratic government. But remember that it is still a private entity - by pretending to be a public entity, the Beast makes itself a false god, claiming authorities that belong only to God, and indeed its worshipers put the laws of government before the laws of God, before Natural Law. The US Constitution is worshiped like the Ten Commandments. The Beast preaches peace while making war around the world in the name of Democracy. But be weary - a similar deception of false liberation could come from blockchain... can the Beast be decentralized? Rev. 17 the Whore of Babylon, who rides the Beast, is the Roman Catholic Church aka Roman Paganism aka Babylonian Paganism - the same religion that has been influencing government both publicly and secretly from the beginning. Rev. 13:18 "Let him that hath wit, count the number of the beast: ..." - This number actually does not represent the Beast itself, it is a number issued by the Beast. Rev. 13:18 "...for it is the number of a man,..." - not any specific man - every man, every man who is numbered. The number is any unique sequence of digits or characters by which a man can be uniquely identified and tracked by his oppressors. It can be your legal name, your Social Security Number, your passport number, etc. (In Canada, the SSN is called the Social Insurance Number - SIN.) This is the reason the last name, or surname (sure-name) was invented, to disambiguate your name so the Beast can be 'sure' of which slave you are. Rev. 13:18 "...and his number is six hundred threescore and six." - 666 is not the number, it is a syncronicity flag. Many kings and emperors have been pegged as 'The' Antichrist because their names add up numerologically to 666, but we mustn't try to pick just one - they are all the Antichrist - they are all government oppressors. And 666 has been spotted in many places aside from name numerology, for example famously in the lotto numbers the day after Obama was elected, or in the bar-codes on every single item you buy at the grocery store. A prime example from the Bible is the tax collected by King Solomon, 666 talents of gold yearly, the first tax ever exacted on the Jacobites. (1 Kings 10:14, 2 Chronicles 9:13) Generally, the common theme with this number is either government or commerce tracking. This is a way for God or the universe to give us hints as to where the Beast is hiding.