Who will still get a chance to be saved after the mark of the beast is introduced?
Anyone who has not yet taken the mark of the beast will still have an opportunity for salvation, because the 144,000 Jews will be proclaiming it. However, those who have already taken the mark will have no opportunity; they are doomed the moment they take it.
Les explains that this is a blessing in disguise: anyone who has not yet taken the mark of the beast will have an opportunity at salvation as those 144,000 Jews proclaim it. But if they have taken the mark, then the 144,000 can preach their hearts out, and that individual will have no opportunity for salvation; he is doomed the minute he takes the mark of the beast. Les also describes the mark of the beast as an 18-digit computer number—three sets of six digits—and connects it to the universal product code, whose outside and middle bars have a value of six. He suggests that expanding the UPC just a couple more lines would produce 18 digits, enough to give every human being on the face of the earth a separate number.