Can someone be saved by taking the Mark of the Beast? The answer is a catergorical no.
This is what Revelation 14 says:
"Revelation
 14:9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone 
worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead
 or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, 
which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will
 be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and
 of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and 
ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast
 and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” 12 
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who 
keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”"
While
 the nature of the mark as to whether it's physical or spiritual is 
disputed, one thing is as clear as day, those who are deceived by the 
Anti-Christ themselves shall not be saved.
The context is not a
 question of whether or not someone who has taken the mark has the 
oppotunity to repent, is an irrelevent point in the first place, because
 those who follow the Anti-Christ at the end of days will not have the 
incentive to actually repent.
There is a difference between an
 unforgivable sin and a sin that a person is not forgiven of because of 
their no repentance or lack thereof.
The people who take 
Anti-Christ's mark, do not have forgiveness robbed from them for one 
simple reason, They will not repent anyway and because they will not 
repent, they will not be forgiven. 
The question of being 
forgiven after turning away from Anti-Christ is not even raised by the 
author of the book of Revelation, simply due to the fact that those are 
decieved by him will not seek forgiveness, hence it would be pointless 
to even suggest or entertain that idea.
Whether John Macarthur
 teaches this or not is another question but if this he is what he is 
teaching that one can be saved despite taking the mark, he has (I am not
 trying to be offensive towards him here) missed the point that the 
passage is trying to make.
Answering Judaism.
 
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