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The Lamb’s Book of Life

When Are The Names Written In It?

All the names have to be written from before the foundation of the world.

⁸ and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Revelation 13:8

Is This Predestination?

God says He has given us a choice. He says He even called Heaven and Earth as witnesses to this.

¹⁹I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Deuteronomy 30:19

Therefore, this cannot be predestination. This means that all the names of everyone who will ever be conceived must be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from before the foundation of the world. This doesn’t mean that everyone will make it into Heaven because the majority of names will be blotted out by the Last (Final) Judgment.

⁵The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.

Revelation 3:5

¹³Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. ¹⁴For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Matthew 7:13-14

Names Not Written in the Lamb’s Book of Life

At The Last (Final) Judgment, Jesus will open the Book of Life and check to see who’s names are written in it. All whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will spend Eternity in Hell.

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. From His presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:11-15

The Book of Revelation speaks continuously about a beast that will beguile the enter earth and many will worship it. But who is that beast, and what is it? Is the Beast and the Man of Lawlessness the same? Is it the Antichrist? Is it just another name for the Devil or Satan? He is Lucifer or some other evil spirit like Baal, Mammon, or Leviathan? Join ArieRashelle as she answers these questions and reveals the Beast, in her video, The Beast Out of The Sea.

Revelation 13:1-8
Psalms 104:25-26
Luke 22:3
Psalms 74:13-14
Isaiah 27:1
Job 41:1
Job 38:32
Job 41:3
Job 41:2
Job 41:8-10
Daniel 11:21
Revelation 9:26-27
Daniel 11:23
Daniel 11:28
Daniel 11 31
Daniel 9:27
Ezekiel 8:5-13
Revelation 13:13-17
Daniel 12:11
Daniel 11:36-38
Revelation 17:12-13
Daniel 11:39
Matthew 24:15-21
Revelation 19:19-21
Revelation 19:11-13
John 1:1-5
John 1:14
Daniel 11:44-45
Daniel 11:37

The Beast Out of the Sea

The Beast vs. The Man of Lawlessness

In recent years, the Church has come to call the Man of Lawlessness the antichrist, but this isn’t actually accurate. The antichrist isn’t a person; it’s a spirit like the spirit of fear, python, etc. The Spirit of Antichrist is a spirit that denies that Jesus is LORD. The Man of Lawlessness (not the antichrist) and The Beast Out of the Sea are two different beings as well. The Beast comes before the Man of Lawlessness.

The Beast Out of the Sea

¹ And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. ²And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. ³One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. ⁴And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
⁵And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ⁶It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. ⁷Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, ⁸and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Revelation 13:1-8

The Man of Lawlessness

¹ Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers,²not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ³Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,⁴who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. ⁵Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
⁶And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only He who now restrains it will do so until He is out of the way. ⁸And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of His coming.
⁹The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹²in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-11

While both the Beast and the Man of Lawlessness come to their reign by the activity of Satan, they aren’t the same person. One is given their thrown and authority and power all from Satan, while the other only comes because of the activity of Satan.

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