Subject: What does predestinated means |
Bible Note: You write: "We are chosen not by name. God didn't sit down with a big list of names and check us off. ... God didn't choose me specifically," Rev 3:5 "Book of Life." A divine journal records the NAMES of all those whom God has chosen to save and who, therefore, are to possess eternal life ( Rev 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 15; 21:27,: 22:19; compare Dan 12:1; Luke 10:20).(MacArthur Study Bible, p. 1996) Phil 4:3. "Book of Life." In eternity past, God registered all the NAMES of His elect in that book which identifies those inheritors of eternal life . . . (MacArthur Study Bible, p. 1828). When were our NAMES written in the book of life? "From the foundation of the world." Before the first man was ever born, the NAMES of the elect were written in the book of life. Rev 17:8 NASB "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose NAME has not been *written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,* will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come." Rev 13:8 (NASB) 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 slain. (Emphasis added to the above quotations.) |