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They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.
Revelation 22:4 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
  • KJV And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
  • BSB They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
  • NASB they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
  • NLT And they will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads.

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Quick answer

God's servants will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. Believers enjoy the intimate, face-to-face presence of God they were created for.

Overview

Seeing God's face is the long-awaited beatific vision, denied to Moses (Exodus 33:20) but promised to the pure in heart (Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:2). The name on their foreheads marks them as wholly belonging to God, in contrast to the mark of the beast. This consummates the deepest hope of the redeemed: unhindered fellowship with God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
  • Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
  • Rev 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
  • Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
  • 1 Cor 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
  • John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  • Rev 7:3saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”
  • Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
  • Isa 33:17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
  • Ps 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
  • John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  • Isa 40:5Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
  • Ezek 33:18–20When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
  • Isa 35:2It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
  • Ezek 33:23Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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Christ at the center

Revelation ends the story with the slain-yet-standing Lamb who is worthy, the Lion of Judah, the Alpha and Omega, the returning King who makes all things new and dwells with his people forever.

How Revelation 22:4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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