It will evidently be some act or acts by which men will be required to acknowledge the authority of that image and yield obedience to its mandates.
The mark of the beast is enforced by the two-horned beast either directly or through the image.

The penalty attached to a refusal to receive this mark is a forfeiture of all social privileges, a deprivation of the right to buy and sell.

The mark is the mark of the papal beast.

Against this worship of the beast and his image, and the reception of his mark, the third angel's message of Rev.14:9-12, is a most solemn and thrilling warning.
Here, then, is the issue before us.

Human organizations, controlled and inspired by the spirit of the dragon, are to command men to do those acts which are in reality the worshiping of an apostate religious power, and the receiving of his mark, or lose the rights of citizenship and become outlaws in the land; and to do that which constitutes the worship of the image of the beast, or forfeit their lives.