A Mark on Your Forehead?

 Revelation 13

16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

What vision do you suppose John was seeing when he wrote down those words?  With today’s technology we all know that people are putting chips in their hands so they can pass them over the chip reader at the grocery store and buy food.

But what about the forehead?  What was he seeing?  

Yesterday we went to see my mom in a memory care facility to wish her a happy 83rd birthday. When we walked in the front door there was a new machine hanging on the wall.  Before you could come in you had to put your forehead in front of the scanner and with a loud BEEP it would display your temperature.  I said to the nurse there, “Wow!  That’s quite a beep!”  She responded, “You should hear the noise it makes when it detects that someone has a fever!”

I’m not making any predictions, just observations.  It was interesting that our foreheads were required for entry.