Is YOUR Name in Heaven's Most Important Book?

Revelation 21:27 says, “But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”

There is a book in heaven, a registry, called the Lamb’s Book of Life, in which the names of all who will be in heaven are recorded. Jesus said to His disciples on one occasion after they had reported great success in their ministries, “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20).

William R. Newell, a great Bible scholar, said there are four things to be noted about the Book of Life:

1. It is the absence of one’s name in the book, not the absence of one’s good works, which dooms a person.
2. Evil works are not the issue. Many of earth’s greatest sinners’ names are recorded in the Book of Life because they accepted God’s offer of salvation.
3. Those whose names do not appear in the Book are cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15).
4. All names found in the Book were written before the Judgment Day. There is no record of names being recorded (decisions being made) on that day.¹

We cannot earn our passage to heaven simply by being a “good person” or by living a “good” life. Ultimately, we will not be granted entrance to heaven unless we repent of our sin and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior—then we can have full confidence that our name is recorded in the Book of Life.

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¹ William R. Newell, The Book of The Revelation, 9th edition, (Chicago: Moody Press, 1953), 334.