> I suspect there will be people who, for political reasons, choose to reject both Marks, at least for a time. But Scripture seems strongly to affirm that the entire world is going to receive one or the other. I agree. I think this could even be argued to be necessarily the case from Scripture itself. There will be no fence sitters in the end times. It's just like Yeats says in my favourite poem, *[The Second Coming](https://poal.co/s/Poetry/233113)*: *Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world* I don't think this talk of the centre disappearing is coincidentally situated without a poem that is literally about the coming of the Antichrist. >Gentlemen, the picture is quite bleak; but would we expect any different ? I trust in the Goodness of God, and I know He’s perfectly capable of delivering His Faithful Remnant through anything. Amen. @Chiro