I don't know about you guys, but I believe that the Bride has already been tested over and over and over again to see how loyal she is.   And I believe she has passed the test.   Here are some of the things I have seen people take a stand on and as a whole of the Bride we have to be tested and pass the test the Lord has set before each of us.  Each person is different.... 

• Nurses walking out of their jobs to not perform abortions.
• Ministers, pastors quitting their posts not to perform gay marriages.
• People walking out of their jobs because they would not do something that goes against Jesus Christ.
• Employees of government agencies refusing to be micro-chipped and opting for a RFID badge.
  
• Christians are now deciding not to celebrate Halloween or watch movies or shows with witchcraft, vampires, etc. like Harry Potter and Twilight.
• Christians walking out of churches that decide to read the Qur'an.
  
• People exchanging and making a stink when anything related to them has the number of the beast in them....like telling the person at the bank they want a different bill because the serial numbers have the number of the beast in them.....as well as doing the same thing with credit card account numbers, bank accounts, loan numbers, customer account numbers, license plates, library cards, etc.
• Christians facing verbal persecution for their faith on the internet and media and handling it with dignity and grace.
• Christians are warning people and companies of the mark and telling Christian companies about QR codes...that this is the precursor.
• Christians going to stores and seeing people pay with their phone by scanning it and telling them that the next thing will be to swipe the hand, and they should not go along with that technology. 
• Christian refusing to be patted down or body scanned at the airports.
  

The thing is these are small examples....but the Bride refuses the mark of the beast and the number of the beast NOW.   And not only does she refuse it, she tells everyone about it and not to take it and what it is.    So with these warnings, the people and companies are still pursuing this technology....and people who do not want to hear they say "the 3 6's are ONLY A NUMBER" and "it isn't like I am tattooing it on my body."   Hmm, well if they cannot refuse the number now, or anything related to the beast system now, what makes them think they can so easily refuse the mark when they are desperately hungry?  

If a person cannot refuse the world now, then they get a last chance to refuse it in the tribulation under extreme circumstances.   While some things happen to the Bride making her unawares, like someone got caught at the airport the day the TSA came in....she quickly jumps to her feet.   The thing is that protesting at Wall Street or attending an Occupy Rally is not taking a stand where it counts.   It is only making people look like they cannot manage themselves and need more control for a tighter reign and more of the beast system.   Protesting money and things that make a person's life better so they can use it for their sinful ways is not the right way to go.   If a person protests Wall Street because they went to college and made a lot of money and now works at a lower paying job and are angry because their party fund is not there.....Well, well all I have to say is that they need to get on the right side of the protest.   The protest is the mark, the beast system.....not protesting their that bank account is lower and now they cannot go to Vegas anymore or to New Orleans and do the wicked things they used to do back in the "good old days" of Clinton when there was a surplus.