Exodus 28:36–38
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
In our modern democratic age, we like to think of ourselves as unmarked, unbranded individuals. We are autonomous, self-defining, and beholden to no one. But the Scriptures teach us that this is a profound illusion. There is no such thing as an unmarked man. This is the public sign of their economic and spiritual loyalty to a system that despises Christ. But long before John saw that vision on Patmos, God had already claimed this territory. He had already established the principle that the forehead, the very seat of a man's identity and thought, was to be consecrated to Him. The battle for the soul is a battle for the forehead. Here in Exodus 28, as God is giving the intricate instructions for the priestly garments, we come to a piece that seems small but is freighted with immense theological gravity.