THE BOOK OF LIFE

While studying the Book of Revelation in "Sunday School" this morning, we began discussing the "Lamb's Book of Life."  We were in agreement that it was written from the very foundation of this world.  However, none of us know exactly what the book lists; some believe it is the name of all who would accept the Lord's free gift of salvation, while others questioned that based upon the fact that names can be blotted out of it, and that is inconsistent with our belief in the Security of the Believer.  Others seem to think it is a list of all those who are alive, and that "the blotting out" occurs when a person dies.  I must confess that I do not know what it lists, so I leave it up to you to decide.  Here are all the verses I could find on the subject - if any of you are one hundred percent sure that you know, please feel free to enlighten us.  God bless all who love Him and His Word!

Exodus 33:31-33 - "And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.  Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book."

Psalm 69:28 - "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."

Daniel 12:1 - "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."

Philippians 4:3 - "And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life."

Revelation 3:5 - "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels."

Revelation 13:8 - "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

Revelation 17:8 - "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."

Revelation 20:12, 15 - "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

Revelation 21:27 - "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

Revelation 22:19 - "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."