Rev.15:2.

We further read respecting this earthly power, that he causeth all to receive a mark in their right hand or their foreheads; yet chapter 20:4, speaks of the people of God as those who do not receive the mark or worship the image.
If, then, he could "cause" all to receive the mark, and yet all not actually receive it, in like manner his causing all to be put to death who will not worship the image does not necessarily signify that their lives are actually to be taken.
But how can this be?
Answer: It evidently comes under that rule of interpretation in accordance with which verbs of action sometimes signify merely the will and endeavor to do the action in question, and not the actual performance of the thing specified.

George Bush, Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature in New York City University, makes this matter plain.

In his notes on Ex.

7:11, he says:-- "It is a canon of interpretation of frequent use in the exposition of the sacred writings that verbs of action sometimes signify merely the _will_ and _endeavor_ to do the action in question.