The way I see it, there is to be no escape prior to the mark of the beast. I say it is already here, and they turned the SSN into the mark (the number name) with the boiling frog approach. They completed it with that offering of fire on 9/11, now there's the best excuse ever to make everyone bear a government mark. I think that the bible is clear. No buying and selling. And so that is going to mess everyone's lives up..businesses can still be owned with no number, for now, with a whole lot of bother..a whole lot. But in the future it will probably not be possible for the goal is to exterminate true Christians. The Bible says that some will lose their lives over refusing the mark. That's really going to put a damper on the outreach and ministries..
Look back into the old times of the inquisition. True Christianity in nasty times is not a cake walk. They will want to starve us out, just like the inquisitors did..they will want to exterminate us if we won't be a cog in their planetary world order. Look up 42 USC 666, subsection 13. It says that without a government number name (SSN), you cannot have a occupational license, recreational license, drivers license or marriage license. I don't know how they could be any clearer than that.