This is already
happening in Sweden.
Initially, like the vaccine, many will take the chip voluntarily, believing in all the many promised “benefits.” Eventually it will be forced on the rest of us. The Covid Vax was definitely not the “charagma mark,” but the trial run for something far more sinister to come. The good thing is that the Bible indicates that the ultimate decision to accept the charagma of the Beast will be ours to make. Before the actual return of Jesus Christ, it seems that all mankind will have some mark of ownership, either of God or of the Beast.
Recently, I was considering the pending apostasy prophesied in 2 Thess 2. A study of this word indicates that this apostasy will not be a rebellion from without, but rather a forsaking of the faith by many within the church. Could it be that the decision to accept the chip, under great economic and political pressure and societal coercion, causes many to abandon their faith? As with all disobedience (remember how Moses forsook the temporary enjoyment of sin in Hebrews 11), there are always short term benefits, but long term loss.