{"id":5788,"date":"2022-09-26T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:47:30","slug":"written-in-the-book-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/written-in-the-book-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Written in the Book of Life…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Scriptures teach that every word we speak and every choice we make are infallibly recorded in \u201cheavenly scrolls,\u201d and one day these scrolls will be opened as a testimony about what we did with our lives (Dan. 7:10; Matt. 12:36-37; 1 Cor. 3:13, 4:5). \u201cAnd I saw the dead, both the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book (\u05e1\u05b5\u05e4\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d0\u05b7\u05d7\u05b5\u05e8) was opened, which is called the Book of Life (\u05e1\u05b5\u05e4\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d7\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd). And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done\u201d (Rev. 20:12).<\/p>\n

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In this vision of the great day of judgment to come, notice that there was \u201canother book\u201d opened during the judgment called the \u201cBook of Life,\u201d and later we learn that only those whose names were found written in this book would be granted access to the glories of the heavenly Jerusalem (Rev. 21:27). But what is this book and how can our names be inscribed in it so that we can partake of the future glory?<\/p>\n

The Lamb\u2019s Book of Life (\u05e1\u05b5\u05e4\u05b6\u05e8 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d7\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05dc\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c2\u05b6\u05d4) refers to \u201cthe record\u201d (i.e., the words and deeds) of Yeshua our Messiah, the true Lamb of God, and therefore the book represents the final attestation – or \u201csworn testimony\u201d – of the worthiness of God\u2019s own righteousness and salvation. In the great plan of God\u2019s salvation for the world, Yeshua was \u201cborn to die\u201d as our atoning sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:7-5). \u201cGod made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him (\u1f10\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7) we would become the righteousness of God\u201d (2 Cor. 5:21). But note that we must be \u201cin him,\u201d that is, fully identified with Yeshua so that his sacrificial death becomes counted as our own… Our identification in him means that our sin is \u201cimputed\u201d to his suffering and death upon the cross, just as his righteousness is \u201cimputed\u201d to us through the vindication of his resurrection. This is the essence of the “korban principle” of “life-for-life” – the innocent sacrificed for the guilty – that was the foundation of the sacrificial system of the Temple. By faith, the substitutionary death of Yeshua is \u201cfor you.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him” (Mal. 3:16-18).<\/p>\n

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