THE BOOK OF LIFE!

THE BOOK OF LIFE!

Exodus 32:31-33 - And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people has sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.  Yet now, if You will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray, out of Your book which You have written.  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever has sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.

Psalm 69:27-28 - ...let them not come into Your righteousness.  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Daniel 12:1-2 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your 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 your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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

Revelation 3:5 - He who overcomes, 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 you saw 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 a great white throne, and Him Who sat on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.  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 the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them:  and they were judged every man according to his works.  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.  This is the second death.  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 anything that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie:  but they who 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.

Some thoughts:

  

     If sin causes God to remove names from the Book of Life, then there would be no names in it except the name of Jesus, Who is Christ!  Scripture says that other than Him (2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 4:15), ALL have sinned (Rom. 3:9-10, 23; 11:32).  So then, why are there still names written there?  The answer, for me at least, is that God, in His foreknowledge, knew from the foundation of the world, those who would accept His Son's sacrifice for their sins.  As a result, our names remained written there, even after we sinned.  In fact, there is only one sin that causes a person's name to be removed; blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (Mt. 12:31-32; Mk. 3:28-30).  That occurs when a person is being convicted by the Holy Spirit that Jesus is the Son of God, and that rejection of His working in one's heart, in reality, is calling the Holy Spirit a liar!

     The books that are opened at the Great White Throne Judgment must contain a list of each individual's sins they committed in their lifetime, thus declaring them to be in need of the Savior; the Book of Life must be a list of all who accepted God's offer of salvation by faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as payment for their sins.  

     That is how I understand "the books, and another book." 

TODAY, IF YOU HAVEN'T ACCEPTED

JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR,

PLEASE DO SO - TIME IS RUNNING OUT!