The Mark of the Beast will be the Antichrist's way to enforce the people's loyalty.

.......He sets up a supreme welfare state and man must obey the state or else.

..................There are no exceptions to this decree. "Small and great, rich and poor, free and bond", all must "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads".

..........Without the mark people cannot buy or sell.
..........This is the hour of the Great Tribulation.