And as if this was not enough, the False Prophet shall cause “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16–17). This mark will be known as the brand of hell.
This mark will be branded or burnt on and it will probably be the number of the Beast or 666. The number 666 is the number of man and stops short of the perfect number seven. Man was created on the sixth day. Goliath, the opposer of God’s people and a type of Satan, was six cubits in height, he had six pieces of armor, and his spearhead weighed 600 shekels (1 Samuel 17:4–7). Nebuchadnezzar’s image, a type of the image of the Beast, was sixty cubits in height, six cubits wide, and six instruments of music summoned the worshippers (Daniel 3:1–7).