Are The Book And The Books The Same?

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Hi R____,

Thanks for your insightful question. Yes, these are the same “book.”
You know by now that the word ‘book’ is as symbolic and any other word in the parables that make up what we call the Bible. The “books”, which are all of our lives, are all within the one “book”, which is Christ.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I [ am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Christ is the “Book of Life”, and we are “judged out of those things which are written in “the books”. What is written in “the books” is the fact that we have all in our own individual way “lived by every word that has proceeded out of [ Christ] the mouth of God.”

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

As hard as it is for the natural man to conceive, Christ considers us to be “Jesus of Nazareth”, and as such we also are judged out of the things which are written in the books, according to our works.”

Act 9:5  And he [ Saul of Tarsus] said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:
Act 22:8  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

According to Rom 11, all “the books” are of and through “another book.”

Rom 11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35  Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

“All things” means ‘all things’, and it certainly includes “the books” which are opened at both resurrections. It is not “thinking above what is written” to say that because of the first verse you reference.

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them. (ASV)

The days ordained for “another book… which is the book of life” did not include the sins that fill “the books” which “live by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God.” It is only through us and our being “Jesus of Nazareth” that the books become “all the same book.”

Joh 14:20  In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

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