BOOK OF LIFE-NONE FOR DEATH

Book of Life

Mentioned several times in the Bible.

Psa. 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

Phil. 4:3 “…..fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.”

Rev. 3:5  He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life , and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

          13:8

          17:8

          20:12

          20:15

          21:27

Twice it is said that names might be either blotted out or erased, depending on which version of the Bible you use. How did they get in there if there is no loss of salvation? And what would be the cause of their erasure?

Because there is no book of death.

Is this why the offer is to go out to the whole earth?

Paul made this amazing statement in 2 Cor. 5:18-19 "But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling [on the cross] the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation."

Since God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to Himself and Paul brought that truth to us, then it makes sense what he further said to Timothy in 1 Tim 4:10 “For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of them that believe."

Col 1:19 "... by Him to reconcile all things to Himself ...."

Heb 2:9 says this about His death But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every [man].

2 Peter 2:1 says that those who were bringing in the damnable heresies were denying the One who bought them, which goes farther than dying for them.   "But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction."

He also propitiated for more than the saved.  1 John 2:1-2 “My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world."

Paul also says in Rom. 5:18 that by one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. 18 "So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men." 

This propitiation and reconciliation and justification must therefore be temporary giving a fuller meaning to the age of grace. It appears in the 1st Timothy passage that Paul believed that and had taught Timothy likewise.