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Isn’t it incredible how the Bible says the mark will be IN the forehead. But 2000 years ago, who would have thought of a mark being anything other than ON the forehead.

Actually, the Greek text says that the mark will be "epi to metwpon autwn" - and "epi" is Greek for "on" or "upon" not "in" as "inside" or "within" in modern English.

In the 1600s when the King James Bible was translated the word "in" had a slightly different sense to it. It could also mean "up to."

In Middle English the word "in" and the word "inne" were two different words with "inne" meaning within or inside something. However, when the final "e" of words like "inne" stopped being pronounced, the distinction was lost.

That doesn't stand up to inspection. The word "on" occurs many, many times in the old and new testements, in the 1611 right through the later spelling changes, and so does the word "in", used exactly as we would use them today.

Epi, strong's 1909, does not have an exact analog in modern English, which is why it is translated so many different ways. It can very easily be translated "in", depending on the context, as the translators did there.