a mark on hand & forehead

I was always familiar with the mark of the beast, aka 666. There are a number of movies that make allusion to this--probably most famously the Omen. And the idea of this mark comes from...

Rev 13:16-17 "He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

And of course the mark of the beast refers to anti-christ, an anti-messiah. Christ & Messiah simply mean anointed of G-d as if dedicated to G-d, a servant. So anti-christ is anything that is anti-G-d, unanointed.

Now what's interesting about this is the mark of the beast is a sign on a right hand or forehead...and Passover (which begins April 8, 2009) is referred to the same way, as a mark...on your hand and forehead:

Exodus 13:7-10 "Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt. You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year."

Since in the past, I only read Exodus like a history book and history was my worst subject in high school, I never saw this before: Passover is the true mark of G-d. Why? Because Yeshua who IS the anointed became the Passover Lamb. Each year that the Israelites celebrated Passover before His death, was simply a foreshadow of His ultimate sacrifice. They sacrificed lambs, He was the Lamb.

And then I was reminded of Deuternomy 6:8...where it says of G-d's Word: "You shall bind them (His commandments) as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes."

This speaks of the same concept: He is telling His people to so love the Word and live the Word, that it shall be like a mark on their hand and forehead, always present with and within them.

And so I just thought it was pretty neat how all these "marks" point to Yeshua and each reference is just a different way of saying the same thing: He is the Word that became flesh...and as believers we are marked by Him and so Passover, being that He became THE sacrifice, is THE MARK of the L-rd.

Chag Sameach!