You guys have no clue what the mark of the beast is. You are busy looking for something physically in the news to fit your flawed doctrine on MOB. The mark of the beast will NOT be a physical mark, seal, or implant. They are SPIRITUAL mark to signify they are owned by Satan. To be part of His spiritual family. How? By believing a lie coming out of the mouths of false prophets and christs IN CHURCH.
Have you forgotten already that we, Elect, are merchants of God's Gospel? We went out to the world as buyers and sellers of God's Gospel for the past 2,000 years. But right before the Second Coming when Satan was loosened, he will be revealed through his false prophets and christs to spew his doctrines. This is where he wants people of the congregation to start buy and sell his doctrines, instead of Christ. In order to buy and sell satanic doctrine, they first need to take the mark of the beast. In other words, they are deceived thinking they are of God but become part of Satan's spiritual family.
Those who cannot or refuse to buy and sell satanic doctrine are the Elect because they are upheld to refuse to worship the beast, or receive his mark or paternal name. By the Spirit of God, the elect refuses to join that family, kinship or generation of evil. Selah! That is why the beast will cause EVERYONE in the congregation of God who has NOT YET SEALED by God to receive the mark as a judgment upon an unfaithful congregation.