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What does the Bible say about lambs book of life?

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The Bible teaches that the Lamb's Book of Life contains the names of those who belong to Jesus Christ and will receive eternal life in God's holy kingdom. Revelation 13:8 and 17:8 connect this book with God's saving purpose from before the foundation of the world, humbling believers before His sovereign grace. Revelation 21:27 declares that only those written in the Lamb's book may enter the new Jerusalem, while Revelation 20:12, 15 warns of final judgment for those not found there. Yet Christ comforts His people: Revelation 3:5 promises that He will never blot out the overcomer's name, and Luke 10:20 calls disciples to rejoice that their names are written in heaven.

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  • Revelation 13:8

    All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

  • Revelation 21:27

    There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

  • Revelation 3:5

    He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

  • Revelation 20:12

    I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

  • Revelation 20:15

    If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

  • Philippians 4:3

    Yes, I beg you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

  • Revelation 17:8

    The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

  • Luke 10:20

    Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

  • Psalms 69:28

    Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

  • Daniel 12:1

    "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

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