Is Your Name "in the Book of Life"? WHOSE NAMES ARE IN THE BOOK?

 The second group consists of the great crowd of other sheep,  Are their names now written in the book of life? Yes. Will their name  still be in the book of life after they survive Armageddon? Yes. (Revelation 7:14) Jesus said that these are sheeplike ones will depart  "into everlasting life." (Matthew 25:46) But those Armageddon survivors  will not immediately receive everlasting lufe. Their names will remain written in thwe book of lofe in pencil, as it were.  During the Thousand Year Reign Jesus will shepherd them and guiden them to springs of waters of life." Those who respond positively to Christ's guidance and are finally judged faithful to Jehovah will have their names recorded permanently in the book of life. - Read REVELATION 7:16, 17.

The third group comprises the goats, who will be destroyed at Armageddon.  Their names are not in the book of life, Jesus says that they "willl depart into everlasting cutting-off." (Matthew 25:46) Under inspiration , Paul tells us that "these very ones will undergo the judical punishment of everlasting destruction." (2 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Peter 2:9) The same could be said of those who, down through time, have deliberately sinned against the holy spirit.  They too receive everlasting destruction, not everlasting life.  Clearly, they will not be resurrected. (Matthew 12:32; Mark 3:28, 29; Hebrews 6:4-6) Let us now take a closer look at two groups of people who will be resurrected on earth.

Next time: Is Your Name "in the Book of Life"? - THOSE WILL BE RESURRECTED

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