Original King James-direct translation from scrolls(Greek
and Hebrew)...John wrote what he saw and heard in visions
from God, he was seeing some things that were never in his
time..back then they had tattoo's and God said not to for
the Israelites. You can prove that the ink is "IN" the flesh, but
I don't think mark of the Beast is a tatoo, the description in
Rev 13;17 is [a mark* or a name* or a number*]..what we are
in now is a "type of" a pre-revelation event to sift those of us
to wake up to God--a choosing time. But, a main point is there
is no beast or antichrist at this time in the very public view as
described in revelation and if this was the actual mark system,
there would not be hundreds of Presidents/Governors/Mayors
in pushing the mark, it is clear in Rev 13, it is the antichrist and
(false prophet)beast that will not share their power/control.
also, the Temple in Jerusalem needs to be built and active with
Preists/sacrifices before the mark system of

I agree! We are not into the book of Revelation YET. When I heard so many Christians saying that we were in the book of Revelation, I wanted to scream because I knew we were not. But I had to give them SOMETHING they could possibly wrap their heads around to prove that we were not there yet. So I looked with the intent of finding the very first physical manifestation of when we would know we were there. It is when the earth is being pummeled by meteors! Like ripe figs being shaken from the fig tree. That would be a LOT of meteors.

Even Satan knows we aren't there yet but I believe God is allowing him to serve some hors d'oeuvres to see where believers are at. Back in WW2, Christians thought it was the end of the world and were waiting for a fallacious "rapture" to come and take them out of the melee, just like many have been now.

Based on the Hebrew calendar, we have about 218 years before Mashiach returns.