The Book of Life Compared with the Lamb’s Book of Life (REV40)

Pastor Gene Giguere

• The Book of Life contained the name of every sinner who has ever lived.
• When a person dies without Christ, his or her name is removed from the Book of Life.
• When a believer dies, his or her name is not removed from the Book of Life.
• When a sinner believes in Jesus Christ, his or her name is written into another book, the Lamb’s Book of Life.
• The unbeliever’s name is never written into the Lamb’s Book of Life.
• In Revelation 20:12, “books” (plural) are opened. At the Great White Throne judgment, the unbeliever’s name will not be found in either the Book of Life or the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Biblical references

Psalm 69:28: “May they be blotted out of the book of life, and may they not be recorded with the righteous.”

Philippians 4:3: “Indeed, true comrade, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.”

Revelation 3:5: “He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.”

Revelation 13:8: “And 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.”

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 to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.”

Revelation 20:12: “And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.”

Revelation 20:15: “And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

Revelation 21:27: “And nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”