> 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, 17 so that they could

> 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, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. If it practically excludes people from transacting it kind of plays into the prophecy. That's how people go off on bank accounts and debit and credit cards as being the mark of the beast.