THE MARK OF GOD THAT EZEKIEL SAW

Everyone is aware of the mark of the beast, but they forget that God has a mark as well. The mark of the beast is the number “666” but unknown is what the mark of God might be.

Ezekiel saw a “man” in white linen set a mark upon the foreheads of men to preserve them from perishing. Apparently, Ezekiel saw things that would be at the end of days, noting that cherubim were there with the man in white linen: 

And the Glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon He was, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. … Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. (Ezek 9:3-4,6) 

The Glory of God is the backside of God that Moses saw. The Man in white linen would be Jesus the Christ. “Fine linen” is for the righteousness of the saints (Rev 19:8). The Man in fine linen was THE Saint, Jesus. John “saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called ‘Faithful’ and ‘True,’ and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. (Rev 19:11).

John saw what Ezekiel had seen millennia before. That Man “had a name written, that no man knew, but He himself, and He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (Rev 19:12-13).

Given that, Ezekiel saw the Man that wrote upon the foreheads of the faithful write the Man’s Name called, “The Word of God.” It would not be “Logos Theos” as the Word of God means, but the One whose Name means that.

John had already provided some about Jesus:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-2,14)

Rather than “Faithful” and “True” that John would call Him after the Revelation, before, John had called Him full of “grace” and “truth.” In a sense faith is grace because the grace of Jesus is what faith is all about. The point herein is that the Man on the white horse of the apocalypse is Jesus, and it is His Name that will be written in ink on the foreheads of the people. 

Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him My new Name. (Rev 3:12) 

It appears that three things will be written on the foreheads of those “that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done: (1) the Name of God, (2) the name of the city Jerusalem, and (3) God’s new Name.

Isaiah new of that new Name: The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name” (Isa 62:2).

Obviously, Isaiah was speaking of Jesus, the Name He was called when he was circumcised, “His name was called Jesus, which was so named of the Angel before he was conceived in the womb” (Luke 2:21).

That “Angel” was The Word of God — “The Angel of the Lord” (Mat 1:20). The Angel was pre-incarnate Jesus, “The Image of God” from Genesis and the “Voice” walking in the Garden.

Now for a “sidebar:” John wrote that Jesus as the Word pre-existed existence. Just who was “Jesus” in the Old Testament? He was the Image in which Adam was made, “selem” in the Hebrew — the “shadow” or “phantom” of God. Jesus was the walking, talking “Ghost” of Yahweh.

Perhaps “The Name” that will be put on the foreheads of the righteous will be “Hashem” because the “old” name of God was just “The Name” — Hashem in Hebrew.

The Jews would expect that Name to be on foreheads, but the gentiles, to see the righteousness would expect another Name, “Iesous,” the gennao of Hashem — “The Pre-creation of Hashem (Strong 2006).

The third name would be “Ierousalem.”

Why Jerusalem (Ierousalem)? It is the “Foundation of Peace,” and that is another Name for Jesus as Prince of Peace.

Ezekiel wrote that those words would be written in perhaps in ink. We need to see what ink is in the Hebrew because ink will wear off.

The Man in linen was carrying a pot that the translators called an “inkhorn.”

The Man was to set a “mark” upon their foreheads — a “tav” in the Hebrew. The Hebrew hierglyph for the letter tav is a cross. Ink was not necessarily in the pot. It could have been the genetics of the Man in white — a pot of divine DNA for them to be “born again” (John 3:7).

The Cross of Jesus had great significance. It was a “ladder” between old and new Jerusalem, so to speak. Indeed, it was probably Jacob’s ladder that he saw as access to heaven.

Likewise, the Cross represents those who mourned for their sins like the repentant thief, and those who did not, like the other thief in the manner of the vision that Ezekiel saw.

Tav is also what God would have called Himself with the “alpha and omega; the beginning and the ending.” In the end, God would be called “Tav” (The “Omega” only in the Hebrew) and His hieroglyph would be the Cross.

Likewise, when the Tav is seen, any Christian would see Jesus, would he not? The Tav on the forehead could be read many different ways: (1) The Name of God, (2) the City of God, or (3) the new Name of God — Jesus. The Hebrew Tav represents all three in Hebrew hieroglyphics.

The Jew would see God as the letter Tav and Christians would see Jesus as the letter Tav as a Cross, and the action of God would be Jacob’s ladder to Jews and the Cross to Christians.

I submit that the letter “Tav” that Ezekiel saw would be one mark for all three names.

With that said, the letters on the foreheads of the faithful will not be “666.”

I will not be looking for inks nor tattoos on foreheads for the mark will be what is written on the minds of the people. It will be who is engendered by whom.

The only one who knows that name will be ourselves. If you belong to God, you will know it, just as Ezekiel wrote. Nobody else but the “Man” in white will know the Name because it is His Name that will be written in their minds.

The mark of God:

Tav