The "beast" is the Babylonian market
SYSTEM of buying and selling, that we have created and which most cannot envision living without.
In a word it is
MATERIALISM (mammon).
The beast system consists of everything mentioned in this thread: the banking/financial system, which runs on unlawful usury, the legal system (Babylonian/Roman), which uses corporate fictions to usurp power over us (through the products that bear their names, the jobs to which people are enslaved, and the corporate fictional governments and corporate fictional organized religions used to control and manipulate the people into abiding by the system of rules, legislation, policies, rites, rituals and "codes", etc.) and even the medical industrial complex, which uses the irrational fear of human death as a means of mind-control.
The beast system, with its throw-it-away consumerism, is destroying the planet. We make things (e.g. packaging) designed to immediately be thrown away, and even engineer into products both "planned obsolescence" and "perceived obsolescence" instead of building things to last. We ship things cross-country, across continents and across the oceans and the world just to keep them moving from place to place, instead of making what we need when and where we need it. The amount of waste unnecessarily generated is not only mind-boggling but completely unsustainable.
The beast system has very steadily worked towards a centralized form of government and a centralized credit system for decades, with financial and credit rating systems, social credit systems and the upcoming medical credit system, which will likely keep people from buying and/or selling basic necessities without receiving a vaccine and/or some arbitrary and ever-changing means of testing.
Bar codes help track inventory, as items are shipped all over the world. Personal credit and online banking helps track every single financial transaction one makes. Cell phones and social media provide the so-called intelligence services with the data-scavenging goldmine they never dreamed possible, providing real-time intel, geo-location, known-associates, future plans, personal thoughts, etc. And of course a medical passport would be even more encompassing, and almost assuredly be backed with an RFID chip for anyone foolish enough to agree to be vaccinated.
ALL of these various sub-systems are part of the beast system, which is fed with our tax dollars, pounds, euros, shekels, etc. They are
ALL man-made (human) systems that were built on and thrive upon fear and materialism/greed. And the entire system is now protected with military might and policing power, paid for with our fear and taxes.
Man (humans) was created on the 6th day, and all out-of-control humans think about is themselves (spiritual matters are foreign to the human), which is how the entire beast system was built (666 -- man, man, man). From the above description, it should be self-evident why we are warned that we have all been part of the beast system, and have helped feed it, so that it has become the monster it is today, capable of devouring men.
Revelation 13:16-18
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark (Deutsch) in their right hand, or in their foreheads (Marx-ism):
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of man (created 6th. day); and its number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six (man, man, man).
It should likewise be self-evident that the evil power behind the beast system (materialism/mammon) is Lucifer/Satan/Iblis, which is why anyone hoping to survive Judgment Day
MUST come out of that system.
Faith (trust in God) and fear are polar opposites and thus mutually exclusive.
Anyone who isn't striving with all of their heart, mind, soul and strength to reinstate The Law our Creator gave us to protect us from all of this evil, cannot escape the mark of the beast. Read
Revelation 14-15.
One either has Father's Name and His Law written
IN their foreheads (minds) or they have the mark of the beast written
IN their foreheads (minds) instead. One
CANNOT serve both God and materialism.
For reference and to give this simple concept "teeth",
the Achilles' Heel of this "new" world order, with its one-world government tyranny, is its fraudulent and unlawful man-made legislation, which is expressly prohibited under The Law that God gave us. Get rid of
ALL of these fraudulent and unlawful made-up rules, and their entire house of cards
WILL fall, exactly as our Creator has
PROMISED.