(4) The mark of recognition and approval--22:4. The citizenry should see his face in the sense of having the recognition and approval of the One whom they served. The face of the Lord was said to be against them that do evil (1 Peter 3:12); and the wicked rulers of the nations (Revelation 6:16) implored the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them for a cover to hide them from the face of the One on the throne. But the righteous see his face in acceptable and approved service rendered to him. “ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies sake’ (Psalms 31:16); and, “ Cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” To see the face of God meant to bask under the smile of his approval. It therefore denoted the love and the favor of God. The receiving of his name in their foreheads--and his name shall be in their foreheads --was the mark of submission and subservience to Christ the Lamb in contrast with the mark of the beast in the hand or on the foreheads of the devotees of emperor-worship, so frequently mentioned in the previous chapters of this Revelation. The persecuting beast had “ caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (chapter 13:16- 17); and, “ If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God” (chapter 14:9-10); but the victors “ over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name” were among the throng standing on the sea of glass (chapter 15:2-3) singing “ the song of Moses, the servant God, and the song of the Lamb; and it was this throng which had the name of the Father written in their foreheads” (chapter 15:2). So the name in the foreheads of chapter 22:4 was the symbolic designation that they were the servants of God.