Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Is This The Book Of Life?

Everyone knows about the Book of Life. It is one of Seven Books mentioned in the Bible. Every True Believers name and actions are in the Book of Life, which is opened on Judgement Day. If your name is there, you are gifted with eternal life, with the Lord. If not, then eternal life, without the Lord. If you ask most people, they will tell you that the Book of Life is guarded closely, by the angels around the throne of God. However, if you read Amos 3:7, we are told:

Our Lord,
Yahweh,
accomplishes his business only 
by first laying out his plans
to his servants, the prophets.

Interestingly, if you take this on the macro level, God does nothing to effect the matters of the nations, Earth and the universe, without telling his prophets first. His prophets then wrote down these plans, within the Bible, before they happen. This is prophecy, the foretelling of things, before they happen. This is done strictly so the readers and the True Believers know that Yahweh is the one and only true omniscient God, who knows all things, from the beginning to the end of time.

Even more interesting, if you take Amos 3:7 to the micro level, God does nothing, with us, on a personal level, without revealing it, to the prophets. Since our individual salvation is the most important thing to him, within our Time/Space, would he reveal our salvation to the prophets? If so, since the prophets wrote down everything told to them by God, would our name appear within the text of the Holy Scriptures?

The plan for our salvation is definitely and clearly laid out, within the pages of the Bible. Why not the results? Since there are many levels of understanding to God's Word, I would not doubt that, on some level, every single name and actions of all True Believers, The Saved, should be written, in some form, within the pages of the Holy Bible. If so, this Book is indeed the True Book of Life. This Book would not only give you the instructions, in order to receive salvation, but also list the outcome of all who would accept this gift. Wouldn't this be just like God, to have hidden the Book of Life, in plain sight and have it passed down in oral and written form, for all to bear witness, since the dawn of man? What do you think?


2 comments:

  1. Hi Keith, it appears that the only way we will be written in the book of life is if we follow Jesus, working out our salvation through obedience to that written Word. I thank God for the Holy Spirit that enables me to discern the truth as I continue my journey. It is God alone Who sees the end from the beginning, and He wants all to be saved,and even those words about who is written in the book of life will encourage us to seek the truth as we journey on.

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  2. It’s fun speculation. It’ll be nice to see if our insight are correct, since they are based on our understanding of our father’s methods.

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