Our names are written in heaven.
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.
Christ
promises not to blot a person’s name out of the Book of Life. All human beings’
names are in the book when their soul was created but based on God’s
foreknowledge and if we reject Him our name is removed.
Exodus 32:32 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.
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.
This is
all made possible by the Lord Jesus Christ, the mediator between man and God in
His dual nature of fully God and fully man, the ladder between earth and
heaven.
1Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus;
Genesis 28:10 ¶ And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a
certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took
of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on
the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it. 13
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham
thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy
seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep
thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this
land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to
thee of.
John 1:43 ¶
The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip,
and saith unto him, Follow me. 44 Now
Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him,
We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 46 And
Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip
saith unto him, Come and see. 47 Jesus
saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in
whom is no guile! 48 Nathanael saith
unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that
Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. 49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi,
thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I
said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see
greater things than these. 51 And he
saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven
open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
See the allusion to the blood of sprinkling referring to the
Passover Lamb as Jesus is our Lamb.
Exodus 12:1 ¶
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all
the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall
take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb
for an house: 4 And if the household be
too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it
according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall
make your count for the lamb. 5 Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out
from the sheep, or from the goats: 6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and
strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it.
Verses
3,4, & 5 of Exodus 12 give us an understanding of Christ.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour
next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man
according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
He
is a lamb, a sacrifice and ransom to
God, the propitiation to satisfy God’s wrath for mankind’s sins against Him. He is the lamb, the only way to salvation. He is your lamb, who died for your sins on the cross at Calvary and rose
for your justification.
Again, Paul warns the Hebrews not to turn away, not to hold back, but to
receive Christ as their Saviour. It is a warning to those I’ve explained
before, like people we’ve seen in church who half-heartedly make some kind of
surface, emotional prayer about salvation and then are never seen again in
church. It’s a personal, emotional high that makes them feel good for a moment
but is meaningless because it has no root in their heart. Damnation is their
destiny as tares among the wheat only they might not even know it due to our
misleading them much as Judas may have not known that he was a devil as per
Jesus’ own words in John 6.
The kingdom we receive upon salvation is eternal, that which we have
entered into upon our salvation and by our salvation through Christ we can
serve God acceptably with a reverence and a godly fear that those who have not
received Christ cannot understand.
Psalm 19:9
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the
LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding
have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
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