As you know, one needs the mark of the beast [SSN] to obtain a credit card, bank card and open up an account at the bank.
One needs the mark in order to sell items, obtain licenses from agencies of governments and to be able to work for an employer [this one is not an absolute requirement but folks have been brain washed to believe it is... thank you, FDR administration].
To me this implies that yet another incident is lurking in the mist of the not too distant future to seal up that part of the prophecy.
With revelations saying those with the mark [americans] that will receive sores on their flesh... rings of an anthrax outbreak in america... or some such other naughty deed that would cause such things to appear on the skin.
16:2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
that next chapter, i feel, shall be opening sooner than later. Bush has got just only a little over a year to go, but alot of damage can be done in a year's time.