'Token' in the Bible
And this is the token for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."
Symeon blessed them and said to Mary the mother, "This child is appointed for the falling and the uprising of many in Israel and for a token to be spoken against;
For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.
"Rabbi, when will this be?" they asked Him, "and what will be the token given when these things are about to take place?"
Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--a token coming from God.
For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement, which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom, for the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.
A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;