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;
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. 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…
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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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