God's Day of Judgment - Its Joyour Outcome! -The Scroll of LIfe

 John speaks of "the scroll of life."  This is a record of those in line to receive everlasting life from Jehovah.  The names of the anointed brothers of Jesus, of the great crowd, and of faithful men of old, such as Moses, have been recorded in this scroll.   (Exodus 32:32, 33; Daniel 12:1; Revelation 3:5)  As yet, none of the "unrighteous " resurrected ones have their names in the scroll of life.  So the scroll of life will opened during the Thousand Year Reign to permit the writing of names of others that come to qualify.  Those whose names do not get written  in the scroll, or book of life are "hurled into the lake of fire."  REVELATION 20;15; Compare HEBREWS 3:19. 

What, then, will determine whether a persib gets his name written in the opened scroll of life at that time?  The key factor will be the same as it was in the days of Adam and Eve: Obedience to Jehovah. As the apostle John wrote to the beloved fellow Christians:  "The  wold is passing awayand so is its desire, but that does the will of God remains forever." (1 John 2:4-7, 17) In the matter of obedience, Jehovah's appointed Judge set the example:  "Although [jesus] was a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered; and after he had been  made perfect he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him." - HEBREWS 5:8, 9.

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