Those who don't take the mark will be beheaded
"He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."
The above scripture takes place when the Lord returns to the earth to end the age. The fact they are beating their weapons into plowshares and pruning hooks, would demonstrate that they will enter into the millennial kingdom to farm and tend vineyards.
It's like saying, "anyone who speeds will get a speeding ticket." However, not everyone is caught speeding. Then you have the following scripture regarding the great tribulation saints:
"If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed." This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God's people."
The fact that the fate of some of those great tribulation saints will be to go into captivity, would also demonstrate that not all of them are killed.
If all of the great tribulation saints introduced in Revelation 7:9-17, which will be from every nation, tribe, people and language, were all killed, then there would be no Gentiles on the earth during the thousand year reign of Christ. Then there is this information regarding the millennial kingdom:
"Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. 18If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord b will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. - Zech.14:16
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