it is possible to observe that readers only fully learn the significance of the seal when they hear, in 14:1–5, that it is actually “his [the Lamb’s] name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.” Now the Ezekiel 9 vision may well have been merged with the Israelite high priest’s practice of wearing a signet inscribed “holy to the LORD” on the forehead (Exod 28:36).
