Prophecy - The End Times

[bearbear]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Some will take the mark but NOT worship the beast and its image. This may seem like a technicality, but important at the Judgment for some. For others, this may identify them as Tares.

It could also be the other way around.

In Revelation 14:9-11 worship of the beast and its image is followed by receiving the mark. This order is also repeated in Revelation 13:15-16:

15. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
16. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads

The penalty of not worshipping the image is to be martyred and those who remain will likely go on to take the mark. So in this view, all those who take the mark would have also worshipped the image first to save their own life.