We know the common narrative that the mark of the beast is a future technology that we await for that will impose itself upon the world to bring the image of the Beast that everyone will have to choose to worship or will be killed. But we have to fit every technology into the system to test it.
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Through the eras we have had different accusations and speculations, but they are merely that. No one knows for sure if there will be a mark and what it might be without supposing the next latest device. However, taking it from a practical level, it is something opposed to god and a mark received due to that.
We trace the modern doctrine from the Plymouth Brethren and John Darby to the circles of the occult and claim of Aleister Crowley that he was the Beast. Despite that, the Darby and Scofield interpretation of Pretribulation Rapture and dispensation theory led to modern day speculations of occult images and symbols as what to look for in interpretation. yet that is not necessarily based on scripture itself.
Many try and predict the latest technology as to what will set off the mark of the Beast. We get that phrasing from the Bible, so anyone referencing it, including occultists, refer to the passages in Revelation 13 and 14 for that context. Only the narrative of their viewpoint changes the explanation. The identity is that of the image of the Beast who receive a mark for worship of the Beast that no one can buy or sell without the mark or the number. This gives people the notion that it is something to do with the commerce exchange, therefore suspected that the mark is to do with banking, products, and exchange.
However, some have suspected extensions of marks to do with allowance of buying and selling, like approval through a rating system, or even by a vaccine, or even a tattoo. In the early century an Emperor required anyone participating to carry the image of the coin stamped for approval and revere him as god. This is close enough. However, through the advancement of technology some still insist on any new development as a culprit, leaving them confused when that new technology becomes universal, but not resulting in any downfall. We still await the answers.