Concerning the Books

or

What Do These Books Have to Do

with Eternal Security?

 

 

Introduction

I was surprised to find that the Book of Life and the Lamb’s Book of Life were shrouded in mystery in the Bible. I therefore endeavoured to solve the mystery regarding the books by considering terms used to describe them.

 

The possibility of a name being deleted from the Lamb’s Book of Life would spell no security for the true Believer. The lack of such a possibility would spell assurance for the true Saint.

 

I will provide a definition, then I will show Scriptural quotations dealing with blotting. The books will be covered after these.

 

 

 

Definition

The Hebrew word that has everything to do with removal from the book (or books) of life is Macah, meaning to strike, wipe out, or away; to blot out, destroy.

 

 

 

Literal Texts

The following are texts taken literally from the Hebrew:

 

Numbers 34:11 …and the border shall descend from Shpham Toward Ribla, from the east to Ain; and the border shall descend, and blot-out upon the shoulder of Yom Kineret eastward…

 

Deuteronomy 29:19 (20,KJV) Yehovah will not be willing to pardon him. For then the nose of Yehovah shall smoke (anger), and His jealousy will be against that man. And every curse written in this book will rest upon him. And Yehovah will blot his name from under the heavens!

 

Isaiah 25:8 He swallowed The Death for ever! And my Lords Yehovah will blot tear(s) from upon all faces. And He will turn-off the reproach of His People from upon all the Land! For Yehovah Spoke!

 

Proverbs 30:20 So is the way of an adulterous woman. She ate, and will blot her mouth. And she will say, ‘I haven’t worked wickedness!’

 

Psalm 9:6 (5, KJV) Thou hast rebuked races, destroyed the Wicked-ones! Thou blotted their name to Hider and onward!

 

Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted-out thy transgressions as a cloud and thy sins as a cloud [different word]. Return unto Me, for I Redeemed thee!

 

Genesis 7:4 For I am raining upon the land for yet seven days [in seven days I will rain upon the land] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot everything that stands up that I made from upon the faces of the soil!

 

2 Kings 21:13 And I will stretch the line of Shomron upon Yerushalaim, and the plummet of the house of Akhav. And I will blot Yerushalaim just as he will wipe the dish, to wipe and to turn-it-over upon its faces!

 

Isaiah 43:25 I—I am He—blotting thy transgressions for My sake! And I will not remember thy sins!

 

Exodus 17:14 And Yehovah said unto Moshe, “Write this—a remembrance in the book, and place (it) into the ears of Yehoshua. For blotting, I will blot the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens!”

 

2 Kings 14:27 And Yehovah did not say to blot out the name Israel from under the heavens. And He saved them via the hand of Yerovam son of Yoash.

 

Psalm 51:3 (1, KJV) Favour me, Elohim, according to Thy Grace, as the multitude of Thy mercies. Blot out my transgression.

 

Psalm 51:11 (9, KJV) Hide thy faces(s) from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities!

 

Exodus 32:32 “And now, if Thou wilt carry-off [forgive] their sin— And if not, blot me out, na, from Thy Book that Thou hast written.” And Yehovah said unto Moshe, “Whosoever sinned at me, I will blot him out from My Book!”

 

Deuteronomy 25:19 And he shall be: When Yehovah thine Elohim gives thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land that Yehovah thine Elohim gave to thee, an inheritance to possess her, thou shalt blot the remembrance of Amelek from under the heavens. Don’t forget!

 

Genesis 6:7 And Yehovah said, I will blot out the Adam that I created from upon the face of the ground, from adam unto beast, unto the creeper, and unto the bird of the heavens, for I am grieved that I made them!

 

Deuteronomy 9:14 Desist from Me, and I have destroyed them! and I have blotted out their name from under the heavens! And I have made thee for a strong race, and more than he!

 

Ezekiel 6:6 In all thy dwelling-places, the cities shall be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate so that your altars shall be laid waste and desolated. And your images shall be broken and disintegrated, and your images [another word] will be felled. And your works shall be blotted out.

 

Deuteronomy 25:6 And he shall be. The firstborn that she shall bear shall arise upon the name of his dead brother. And his name shall not be blotted out from Israel.

 

Judges 21:17 And they said, “The inheritance of Benjamin’s escapees— And a tribe is not to be blotted out from Israel!”

 

Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be, to be cut-off! Their name will be blotted out in another generation.

 

Psalm 69:29 (28, KJV) They shall be blotted from the Book of living-ones! And they shall not be written with righteous-ones.

 

Genesis 7:23 And He blotted out every standing (arising) thing that was upon the faces of the ground…

 

Nehemiah 13:14 “Remember me, my Elohim, concerning this, and don’t blot out my graces that I did in the house of my Elohim and in His offices.”

 

Jeremiah 18:23 “And Thou, Yehovah, hast known all their counsel concerning me for death. Don’t cover over their iniquity. And don’t blot out their sin from before Thee. And they shall be overthrown-ones before Thee! Do against them in the time of thine anger!”

 

These citations showed blotting. Since the Book of Yehovah is already written, all the names of those who have been and will be conceived must already be entered into the Book.

 

 

 

‘New Testament’ and More ‘Old Testament’ Citations

Philippians 4:3 “And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who laboured with me in the gospel (with Clement also, and my other fellow labourers) 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 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 who dwell upon the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, shall worship Him.

 

Revelation 17:8 …and they who dwell on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, shall wonder.

 

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened. And another book that is of life was opened. And the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the books according to their works.

 

Daniel 7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. Thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and miriad myriads stood before Him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.

 

Revelation 20:15 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 defiles or works abomination or a lie, but they who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

 

Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Messiah for my brethren…

 

Psalm 56:9 Thou hast published my wandering. Place Thou my tears in Thy bottle; is it (or, they) not in Thy Book?

 

Psalm 139:16 Thine eyes saw my substance. And all of them shall be written upon Thy Book. They were fashioned daily, and every one of them is His!

 

Daniel 12:1 And at that time, Michael will stand, the great prince standing by the children of thy People. And there shall be a time of tribulation that never was from there being a race unto that time. And Thy People will escape at that time—all found written in the Book.

 

Isaiah 4:3 And it shall be: The remnant in Zion and the one remaining in Yerushalaim shall be called Holy—every one written for Life in Yerushalaim.

 

Jeremiah 17:13 Yehovah, the Hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken Yehovah the Fountain of the Waters of Life!

 

LUKE 10:20 Notwithstanding, do not rejoice in this—that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

 

HEBREWS 12:22 But ye are come unto Mount Zion and unto the City of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general Assembly and Church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, and to Yeshua the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than Abel!

 

 

 

Observations

• There is no record of names being entered into the books.
• Events are possibly entered, or may have already been entered in some books.
• Only deletions of names are described.
• Those who are deleted are therefore permanently deleted.
• Every person who will live was entered into the Book of the Living before the foundation of the earth.
• If the Book of Life and the Lamb’s Book of Life are the same, there are unbelievers in the Lamb’s Book of Life (contrary to Scriptures).
• Every person who dies in unbelief is blotted out of the Book of the Living.
• Every person who will accept the free gift of Salvation was entered into the Lamb’s Book of Life before the earth was founded.
• Blotting can only be done from the Book of the Living.
• The record of the Lamb’s Book of Life (in which Book is found all who will be born of God) cannot be altered (else God didn’t know events would occur the way they did, negating His omniscience and violating His sovereignty).
• The two books will totally agree in content in the end.
• The True Saint, then, certainly will remain in the Lamb’s Book of the Living, and the non-saint will not acquire entry into it.
• No proof of the predestination of the salvational status of any group or of any individual is found using these particular passages. What is proved is that the true Saint is secure, and the non-saint is not secure.