Aijalon said in post 1:
In any event, the symbol in Hebrew looks much like a one or seven might look.
That's right.
Instead of having the Antichrist's (the AC's) name engraved on their right hands or foreheads (Rev. 13:16-17), some of his worshippers will have the gematrial number of his name (Rev. 13:17c-18) engraved on their right hands or foreheads. The gematrial number of the AC's name is 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18). But because some people could refuse to have this number placed on their bodies, in order to make a mark of 666 acceptable to all people, it could be disguised to look like something else in those cases where people demand something other than "666". E.g., it could be disguised in some cases to look like "777", "WWW", "VVV", "|| || ||", or "FFF". For the 6th letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet (Vav) represents the number 6, but it looks like a "7", and it's transliterated into English either as a "W" or a "V". Also, 2 thin vertical lines "||" represent the number 6 on many UPC codes. And the letter "F" has a numerical value of 6 in English gematria.
The "WWW" which has been placed on many web addresses, & the "|| || ||" which has been placed across many UPC codes on products (i.e. they have an "||" at the beginning, middle, & end of their UPC codes), are harbingers of when Lucifer will give the AC ownership of everything on the earth (Rev. 13:2c, cf. Lk. 4:7), & of the AC's placing of his "brand" on everything, like a rancher places his "brand" on all his cattle. For both "WWW" & "|| || ||" are disguised representations of the gematrial number of the AC's name: 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18). But Rev. 13:16 isn't fulfilled by some web addresses having "WWW", nor by some products having "|| || ||" on their UPC codes, for Rev. 13:16 refers only to when people will be given the AC's mark, either on their right hand or forehead.
The mark could be applied by scarification, for one of the definitions of "charagma", the original Greek word used in Rev. 13:16 to refer to the mark, is a scratch or etching, & scarification is the scratching or etching (i.e. the cutting) of the skin to leave a permanent mark. The reason people will be given the mark in Rev. 13:16, in the context of what had been shown just previously in Rev. 13:4,8,15, will be to serve as a visible indicator to other people that they're loyal worshippers of Lucifer (the dragon, Satan) (Rev. 13:4, 12:9) & of the AC (the individual-man aspect of the beast) & his image (Rev. 13:4,8,15), just as some Luciferians today put a mark on themselves by scarification.
Those who refuse to receive the AC's mark won't be allowed to buy or sell anything (Rev. 13:17), & they'll be executed by being beheaded if they refuse to worship the AC & his image (Rev. 13:15, 20:4). Christians must be willing to suffer this fate rather than agree to receive the AC's mark or worship him or his image, for those who agree to do those things (even if they're Christians) will suffer God's wrath in fire & brimstone forever (Rev. 14:9-13), whereas those Christians who refuse to do those things, even though they'll be beheaded, will subsequently be physically resurrected into immortality (along with the rest of the obedient church) at Jesus' 2nd coming (Rev. 20:4-6, 1 Cor. 15:21-23,52-58). And even before their resurrection, at the moment of their death their still-conscious souls will be brought into the presence of Jesus in heaven (2 Cor. 5:8, Philip. 1:21,23, Rev. 6:9-10, Lk. 23:43,46).
In the future, when the world begins to worship the AC as God (Rev. 13:8, 2 Thes. 2:4, Dan. 11:36), some people could gladly be willing to have his name placed by scarification on their right palms, just as lovers in the past were sometimes known to have their loved ones' initials placed by scarification on their palms (cf. also Isa. 49:16, Jer. 48:37, Lev. 19:28, 21:5). Other of the AC's worshippers could gladly be willing to have his name placed by scarification on their foreheads, thinking (mistakenly) that they're fulfilling the Christian idea of Rev. 22:4, which refers to the future point in time when Jesus will put God's name visibly on the foreheads of obedient Christians (Rev. 3:12). The AC's miracle-working False Prophet (the FP), who will be the one to cause everyone to be marked with the AC's mark (Rev. 13:16-18), could even convince people that he (the FP) is Jesus returned (but he won't say he's the Christ, for he & the AC will deny Jesus is the Christ & will deny Christ is in the flesh: 1 Jn. 2:22, 2 Jn. 1:7).
