Who will still have an opportunity at salvation after the mark of the beast appears?
Anyone who has not yet taken the mark of the beast will still have an opportunity at salvation, because the 144,000 Jews will be proclaiming it. However, an individual who has already taken the mark is doomed and has no opportunity for salvation, no matter how faithfully others preach.
Les explains that this situation is a blessing in disguise. Anyone who has not yet taken the mark of the beast will still have an opportunity at salvation as the 144,000 Jews proclaim it. But if a person has taken the mark, then even if those witnesses preach their hearts out, that individual will have no opportunity for salvation; he is doomed the minute he takes the mark of the beast. Les also teaches that the mark of the beast is nothing more than an 18-digit computer number—three sets of six numbers or six digits. He connects it to the universal product code, noting the outside bars and the very middle bar have a value of six. All they have to do is expand the universal product code a couple more lines to have 18 digits, which is sufficient to give every human being on earth a separate number.