re: If the Rapture happened, and you were left behind..yes or no to the Mark?

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1 Thessalonians 4:16 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1 Thessalonians 4:17 - Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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Those say nothing about non believers stayin on Earth, the mark of the beast, etc
All I think those verses say is that believers will go to Heaven when God returns.
There is nothing in the Bible about all of that other nonsense unless you count Revelation which is really just a bad acid trip by John and, like most things in the Bible, not to be taken literally