You see, you won't realize what the mark of the breast is until much later on, when you die. When the grids are down, power goes off for months, life will come to a hault. Fear, oanic, civil i rest, riots ... life will become more stressful than at any other time. Then the Antichrist will come up with a solution, a deal for everyone. The nations must relinquish their sovereignty, individuals, their property and informer to buy or sell anything, you'll have to take the mark. It will be a cashless society. So starve, take the mark or have some food stored or farm it, fish and hunt. Most people after going hungry, not being able to work, waiting in soup lines, will plead for relief and get in line to join the world and take the mark or suffer the consequences. Then the Antichrist will miraculously turn all the power on again - people will think. When all along, it was the Globalistd, not terrorists that shut it off in the first place.
You think this is far fetched, a fictional story? Obama produced a movie called, "Leave the World Behind". He said, "take this seriously, it could happen"! The story is about the grid going down for months and they blamed it on hackers, warfare, terrorism. I think it was a seed planted. It may be their last ditch effort to segway inti their Globalist agenda, with the Great Reset.