How would the Antichrist be able to mark every person on earth?
He would be able to identify and account for every person on earth through computer technology and the internet. A global data system would let him call up an individual’s records instantly, even someone in remote Timbuktu, because modern technology leaves no place to hide.
Les explains that the Antichrist could never put his thumb on every human being on earth without the computer, but with it he will be able to if he wants to. He illustrates this with a banker involved in computer activity who said every new technology brings the prophecies closer, because Revelation is based on tremendous technology. With the internet and global data, the Antichrist could push a button and bring up everything he wants to know about an individual in Timbuktu. Les notes there would be no place to hide, though the text does not say he will do it, only that he could if he wanted to.