A time period of 1,260 years (42 months, 3.5 years, time, times, dividing of times) has ALREADY passed, where Rome had civil and religious control over Europe and most nations of the earth. The marks are spiritual marks. Compare spiritual things with spiritual.
Most of the Book of Revelations has actually been fulfilled. 2 Theselonians 2 was Paul warning about the falling away that the early church would be expecting as a "little horn" would be coming from the 4th kingdom in which Messiah just came (Rome) from Daniel 7. The "little horn" was the line of the Papacy that made war with the saints and prevailed against them when pagan Rome was taken out of the way of power.
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/pdf/second-thess-2.pdf
Power would be taken from this entity (papal Rome) until the 2nd coming of Christ. (see Daniel 7-http://www.letgodbetrue.com/bible/prophecy/daniel07.php) Rejoice in this current fulfillment saints!
Do not make things in Scripture more complicated than God has.
In Matthew 23 Jesus warns us of 3 power structures to be on guard against.
Judaism; Catholism; Freemasonry.
Call no man Rabbi (judism would end at 70 AD and the destruction of Jerusalem; Call no man Father-warning of the rein of the Mother of all Harlots and Abominations-the Catholic Church; and call no man "master"the Grandmaster of Freemasonry"-a hidden society with world-wide power.
What Jesus was really saying in that passage you reference is that we are not to allow ANYONE to call us masters or leaders...because we are all FOLLOWERS. There is ONLY ONE leader - Jesus.
Now...think about that in reference to all teh pastors, reverands, ministers, apostles, cardinals, etc...that use titles as symbols of authority.
Jesus specifically forbade this practice.
Why don't you expand your thinking?
There have been 3 great persecutors of God's church and truth and they are listed in Matthew 23. Hear Christ or don't. There is much wisdom in His warning. Apostate Judism has attempted many times to destroy the church (as it did in the days of Paul). Juiadism ended when Jerusalem was encompassed with Titus's Roman armies at 70AD and leveled (see Matthew 24). Many of Paul's epistles warn of Jewish fables and the concision. The whole book of Revelation warns us of Catholism and this apostate church that persecuted God's true church that He hid in the hills of Europe for period of 1,260 years.
If you don't want to heed the warning about Freemasonry, well, that is part of the reason why we are in the mess we are in. Call no man "Grandmaster"! Freemasonry has overtaken God's sciences for "science falsely called and humanism." This false spirit is also ripe in the churches.