I am glad we can talk about this and I get to hear your thoughts as well because there is still much to be learned in what the Lord says and I want to keep myself opened to all the Lord writes in his bible...lol
The mark upon the foreheads in these verses have always caught my eye in what is God speaking about, as there is the Mark of God and the Mark of the Beast and it leads me to see it is the Marking of God's hand on a person whether they are his or not.
Search Analysis
Aligned Hits In Context
HebrewStrongs in H8420
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update
7 occurrences
mark (2), signature (1), twins (4)
Gen 25:24 …to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. (use "MARKED" would have been better)
Gen 38:27 …was giving birth, that behold, there were twins in her womb.
Job 31:35 …to hear me! Behold, here is my signature ; Let the Almighty answer me! And … (here is my "Mark")
Song 4:5 …Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle Which feed among …
Song 7:3 …Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
Ezek 9:4 …the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who …
Ezek 9:6 …touch any man on whom is the mark ; and you shall start from My sanctuary
New Testament word "forehead"
Aligned hits in Context for the word "foreheads"
GreekStrongs in G3359
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update
8 occurrences
forehead (4), foreheads (4)
Rev 7:3 …the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads .”
Rev 9:4 … only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads .
Rev 13:16 …mark on their right hand or on their forehead ,
Rev 14:1 …name of His Father written on their foreheads .
Rev 14:9 …image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Rev 17:5 and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “…
Rev 20:4 …had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they …
Rev 22:4 …His name will be on their foreheads
And we have this (NIV) a verse of the people of God set up in the Kingdom and the groups the Lord places them in...
Isaiah 44:4-5 They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
One will say, "I belong to the Lord".
Another will call himself by the Name of Jacob
Still another will "WRITE ON HIS HAND" The Lord's and "will take the name Israel".
Ps 4:3 But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
Conclusion: We know we have the Mark because we have the Holy Spirit. God's words are in our hearts and in our minds and what we do with our hands shows whom we belong to.
Just as those who refuse the Lord's spirit and take the Mark of the Beast, and are evil in God's sight, on that day, those in Jerusalem Ezk 9:4 who are grieving and and lament over all the detestable things being done are Marked to be Saved from the eternal fire coming down out of heaven.
This day is not far from us in coming. It will come at the end of the 1260 days of the Beast power in the wing of the temple...amen. We do not know the hour or the day but Jesus will come and with eternal fire devouring those who not his. We should see the Beast power very soon arising up and know we have 1260 days with a 45 day period in which the Lord said he would appear.
We have been marked and sealed by the Lord, fear no man.
In Christ's love
Vickie