it seems to me that 'hands' as relating to an individual's ability of doing things... the skill in doing work or labor. The 'head' or forehead is relative to his ability to think... as in intellect. the mark of the beast ties up one's ability to work and think if one (as a member of a society) comes to accept the ssn as a absolute requirement in order to do these activities (neither of which are revenue taxable activities, btw).

The 'beast' - perhaps, it is the elite group of international bankers, the Federal Reserve in this country (which just may be behind the writing of 42 USC 666) and/or the amerikan government being the image of the beast, the projection that this government is doing the ultimate good, and the amerikan dollar[$] is its sign, is also a part of that image.

It may soon come to pass, that those who do not worship the image of the beast shall be caused and should be killed as in what Michael Reagan advocates about Mark Dice and the supporters of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Every individual has a mind, or intellect, that is capable of either the creation of good [god] or capable of doing bad [satan/devil]. These two are not separate entities floating out in places exterior to the individual/world but an integral part of one phenomenon, call it the conscious-unconscious spectrum. There cannot be a God without a Satan, the two are one in the same, just as in two sides of one coin.

There is only one sin and that is being unconscious. This can lead one to the Satanic end of the spectrum. There is only one virtue and that is being conscious, which can lead to the godly end. Most everyone is floating somewhere between the two, sometimes conscious and sometime not. Unconsciousness depends on the pleasure distractions that are available that one gets immersed into... overindulgence in any particular pleasure stimuli (i.e, lust for power, greed for wealth) can be called a sort of worship. One can even overindulge in praying to a god, or in meditating, or in watching tv... in fact, the latter even looks like worship... bringing food and drink to gather around and worship a tv god.