To play devils advocate: if Hunter has already turned himself in and is cooperating, then Barr could legit say what he said and not be lying (or giving anything away). The media asked him the question, which means they are curios and digging for info.
The beast is tech itself. Satan isn’t human but can A) live for centuries and B) endured travel through space (the heavens). He also survived a crash to Earth. All of our iPhones, TVs, computers, etc link together to form one entity...and yes, people are already worshipping it. Just look at people on the street as they are fixated on their phones. Covid injects the quantum dot tattoo as a numeric identifier. The Mark of the Beast is a number...your tech identifier. The tech behind the Quantum Dot tattoo is actually called “Luciferase”. No, I’m not kidding.
Edit: Lucifer is the light bearer. Man is made of flesh, Satan and the angels are made from “light”. Technology, and tech-based entities are made of electrons. Light.
Oh this was posted a few times. Mods slept on it.