III: Exodus and Wilderness

Book of Life

the register of covenant belonging

Root
Exod 32:32-33 · sepher (H5612)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 32:32-33
  2. Ps 69:28
  3. Ps 87:6
  4. Isa 4:3
  5. Dan 12:1
  6. Mal 3:16
  7. Rev 20:12
New Testament
Rev 3:5; Rev 17:8; Rev 20:12, 15; Rev 21:27; Rev 22:19

After the golden calf Moses pleaded, "blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written," and Yahuah answered, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book" (Exod 32:32-33). David asks that the wicked be "blotted out of the book of the living" (Ps 69:28), and Daniel's deliverance belongs to everyone "found written in the book" (Dan 12:1). Revelation carries the register into the judgment (20:12, 15): not a list of good deeds but a record of belonging, and it determines the verdict. The promise not to blot out the overcomer's name (3:5) assumes a name can be blotted out, answering the teaching that deliverance once entered can never be lost.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 46, 51, 282, 333, 343, 346, 362