Exodus 32:30 ¶ And it came
to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great
sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement
for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto
the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them
gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt
forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy
book which thou hast written. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the
place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before
thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people,
because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Moses tells the people that he
will make an atonement for their sin of idolatry. The word peradventure has to do with perhaps
or possibly, that type of meaning in
context, the word being connected with a sort of, “who knows?” type of
sentiment.
Moses, to make his argument before
God, offers to be damned in their place. Look at this verse from Revelation;
Christ promises not to blot a
person’s name out of the Book of Life. Either the following verses mean the
people referred to can lose their salvation as God knows who will choose Him by
His foreknowledge as noted in 1Peter 1:2 since the foundation of the world as
per Ephesians 1:4;
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee
also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel,
with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the
book of life. 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 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…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 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.
…or all human beings’ names are in
the book when their soul was created, based on God’s foreknowledge and if we
reject Him our name is removed. The latter seems more likely to me as when we
are saved we are said to be sealed and the Holy Spirit is given to us as a
deposit, earnest money, so to speak.
2Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed
us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
So, it would be more consistent to
believe that God’s Book of Life contains all human beings’ names and when we
die physically the name is either left there or taken out based on what we have
done regarding Christ…
With
regard to eternal life God deals with us as individuals.
He
then refers to His Angel, His
presence, His physical appearance.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Judges 2:1 ¶ And an angel
of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of
Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and
I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Acts 27:23 For there stood
by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Galatians 4:14 And my
temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me
as an angel of God, even
as Christ Jesus.
It is Christ who leads them, the visible image of the invisible
God. Remember, that God the Father, the soul and seat of self-identity and will
of the Godhead, is a spirit being who is not visible to us.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth.
And no
man has seen Him.
John 1:18 No man
hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1Timothy 6:16 Who only hath
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no
man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Amen.
But,
Christ is His visible image.
An image means looks like, the appearance
of, the physical aspect that can be seen.
Genesis 1:26 And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye
corrupt yourselves, and make
you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of
male or female,
And
Christ is that of God, He is the body of the Godhead.
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the
brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person,
John 1:14 And the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto
him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
2Corinthians 4:6 For God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to
give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom
the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them.
Colossians 1:15 Who is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
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