foreheads. Some translations say signed.
In Eze. ix they are said to receive a mark in their foreheads.
--As Ezekiel's vision is of the time when utter destruction without mercy or pity is impending, and Rev. vii when the four winds are about to blow on the earth, which denotes the battle of the great day, they must refer to the same time and the same work.
In the Third Angel's Message of Rev. xiv, 9-12, which warns against the mark of the beast, and which denounces such fearful judgment against all who receive it, the opposite or contrast is presented in "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
Ex. xxxi, 16, 17, the Lord says His Sabbath is His sign, because he made all things in six days and rested the seventh day. For this reason the Sabbath is the seal of his law.Now as God's Sabbath is His sign or mark, expressive of his power or authority as creator, and as the Third Angel's Message calls attention to the mark of the beast, and also to the commandments of God wherein His mark is found,we are necessarily led to conclude that, when the mark of the beast is enforced it will stand in direct opposition to God's mark or sign; that is to say, that as God's sign, of power is His Sabbath as commemorating his creative work, the sign or mark of the beast will be an opposition or counterfeit Sabbath, resting on Papal authority, and offered as evidence of Papal power and rule." Joseph Waggoner
