The Book of Life &
The Books of Death
THE THIRD MESSAGE OF Uju ACCORDING
TO THE SCRIPTURE TO THE
WORLD.
A message from Uju a servant of Christ Jesus by the grace of God through Christ Jesus, according to the word in the scripture,
2. To the WORLD; glory and honor be unto LORD God Almighty and Christ Jesus our Lord savior forever and ever. Amen.
3. According to Amos 7.14-15:
“Then Amos answered Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, “Go prophesy to my people Israel.”
4. So am I, Uju, a worker of art by trade; the Word of God, the Spirit of God, in the name of Christ Jesus appeared to me in a flame of fire from the Scripture; and I immediately prophesied saying, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand” to people of the world.
5. I am no pastor, evangelist, prophet nor an apostle, but by the grace and mercy of God the father of Christ Jesus, I am writing this message to world according to the scripture.
THE BOOK OF LIFE & THE BOOKS OF DEATH
Judgment
6. According to Rev. 20:12,
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also, another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.”
7. Please mark and understand the statement:
‘And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done’
8. It is clearly obvious that there is no judgment for those whose names are written in the book of life; they are life. Judgment is apparently for the dead: their names already written in the books of death.
9. Remember in John 11:25, the Lord said,
“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.”
10. From the above authoritative statement of Christ Jesus, true believers of the Lord – the doers of the word of God through Christ Jesus shall never die, either living or not; eternal death is not for the true children of God through Christ Jesus.
11. The doers of the law in Christ Jesus are life and not dead: that is second death – eternal death does not have power over them, for they have passed from dead to life. By every implication they will not come into Judgment for they are life, and not dead. They have already been judged while living. For the life they live, they lived in Christ Jesus who is the resurrection and the life. Their names are already written in the book of life.
12. On the other side, judgment is for the disobedient of the word of God, for they are already dead. There are referred as the dead in Rev. 20:12. While living not in the Lord they are assumed dead, and so, they are! By their disobedience they have come into judgment, and continue to eternal death.
Persistence of Judgment
13. You will understand that the book of life and the books of death already contain in them deeds of the life and the dead.
14. They life proceed into eternal life of glory in Christ Jesus, and do not come into Judgment, because they have already been judged while living. The same applicable to the dead, they come into Judgment, not that they have not been judged but to reprove them that they are already dead while living without the Lord. In the ignorance of the dead while living they never knew that their judgment is going on.
15. You will comprehend with me that everyone’s judgment is going on while living: your deeds are being written either in the book of life or in the books of death while living.
16. But, you will say to me as written in Heb. 9:27,
“And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,”
17. To die, as mentioned above is an allegory, symbolizing obedience and disobedience to the word of God through Christ Jesus.
18. For those who through obedience to the Lord by faith have died with the Lord upon which their judgment to righteousness starts to eternal life in glory if they continue exercising faith in the Lord. Their judgment commences in the presence of God, Satan accusing them, while their advocate – Christ Jesus defends them, exonerating them before God the Father the ultimate and righteous Judge. By this judgment they obedient to the Word of God are therefore saved, and wait eagerly for the Lord for resurrection to eternal life as stated in Heb 9:28,
“So, Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”
19. Check out the statement:‘……appearing for the second time not to deal with sin’
20. By this phrase, the Lord is not coming again to judge the righteous in Him, but to save them.
21. Conversely, the sinners – the dead, also die without the Lord while living as their judgment starts upon their disobedience to the word of God, whether in ignorance or in awareness. For the decision to continue to live in sin, is to die, upon which to your ignorance your judgment commences to eternal death. You do not have any advocate but an accuser – Satan.
22. Why sinners are brought to judgment at the last day is to rebuke them for their evil deeds and disobedience, not that they have not been judged while living: they have already been judged dead while living for what they had done. This is why they are called the dead.
23. The phrase – ‘once to die comes judgement’, is not implying physical death. No! For there is no repentance in the grave. ‘Once to die comes judgment’, is implying your obedience or disobedience to the Lord while living. No chance will be given to you to repent as a sinner once you go down to the grave. Recall the parable of Lazarus and the rich man.
24. Please remember the Lord, the judgment of Gold the Father will judge both the righteous and sinners. Yes!
25. The righteous are judged by the Lord by their decision to obey the Lord through faith by grace while living; the same is applicable to sinners: they are equally judged by the Lord while living upon their disobedience to the word of God.
26. Please, note, your judgment is right going on while living; and not until you go down to the grave! This is referred to as persistent of judgment.
27. The intrigue associated with this judgment is that every true believer of Christ Jesus knows or should be aware that his or her judgment is going right on while living. They should not feign ignorance of the judgment of the Lord upon him or her which is a sin. For ignorance before the Lord is a sin, but in the days of ignorance the Lord forgives but only through true repentance.
28. The same intrigue is associated with sinners, who only are ignorant of the judgment of the Lord upon them. For they are dead, because Satan has shut them out from hearing with faith the word of God through Christ Jesus. Even when they hear the word, it would not profit them as evident in the parable of the sower in Matt. 13:1-23.
29. Because the dead are ignorant of the judgment of the Lord upon them while living, the judgement brought upon them on the last Day is to reproof them.
Second Death!
1. According to Rev 20:14,
“Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
2. By this understanding we have the first death – the physical death: when you go down to the grave – both the righteous and sinners.
3. But in second death, it is only the sinners that go there together with Satan and his cohorts. The second death is referred to as the spiritual death – the primary concern of God the Father.
4. Why the second death?
5. Man was created by God in the beginning to live forever, but for the disobedience of Adam, death spreads to all mankind – both physical death and spiritual death.
6. Remember, man is made from dust of the earth by God. As a dust man is prone to physical death. Man needed to acquire perfection in the weakness of the dust to eternal life and avoid spiritual death. The second Adam – Jesus shared similar nature with first Adam. But the second Adam perfected his power in the weakness of the dust through obedience to the word of God as given to the first Adam.
7. So, through obedience the second Adam acquired salvation for himself and the rest of mankind. He did not escape the first death but did escape the second death.
8. Therefore, if the first Adam had obeyed the commandment of God, he could have overcome the first death and proceed to live forever through eating of the tree of life in the garden of Eden.
9. In the state of the first and second death God put them away from eating the tree of life, thereby preventing them out of love and mercy not to live in sin perpetually – which could have been horrible for all mankind.
10. Since it became obvious that all man shall die physical, which is to no avail to God; God in His infinite mercy and love never wanted man to experience the second death – a horrifying state of living.
11. Merciful God, in order to achieve the divine purpose of eternal life for man, sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall gain His intended eternal life for all mankind.
12. Truly speaking, second death is in God, but living without the Lord perpetually. It is only in Christ Jesus, man has eternal life.
13. Yes, second death is in God devoid of Jesus Christ. All things in creation are God. For God is the creation. Everything in creation serve the divine purpose of God.
Resurrection
14. In John 11:25, the Lord said,
“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.”
15. Resurrection is coming back to life again after death by divine power. There have been evidences pointing to divine intervention upon the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit of God through the prophets of the old and disciples of the Lord. The Lord himself did remarkable acts of resurrection, notable among them is that of Lazarus the brother of Mary and Martha in John 11:1-54.
16. Our primary concern of resurrection is not as mentioned above, wherein the resurrected souls later died, but resurrection to eternal life or damnation: wherein the resurrected souls continue to perpetuity. The Lord is the first of this resurrection; the first born of the dead to eternal life.
17. In this form of eternal resurrection, every living soul dead must resurrect – either to eternal life or eternal destruction. It is the end of perpetuity, in which everything goes back to God.
18. The journey to eternal resurrection starts on earth; your earthly life suggests where you will spend your eternity.
19. The earlier you come to the knowledge of this truth the better for you. This is because it is obvious that it must come to pass. You are not born just to live and die. No! You are born for the purpose of a journey to eternal existence: the reason, better you were not born, then to be born and head to eternal destruction.
20. You must resurrect!
21. Once you are born, you must resurrect – because you must die.
22. The divine purpose of the first coming of the Lord in the flesh is for resurrection. The death brought by the disobedience of Adam could only be redeemed by the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Since death has occurred, there must be resurrection of a righteous soul – a sinless soul to atone for the eternal destruction put forth by the disobedience of Adam.
23. Since there is no righteous one born of woman order than Jesus, it became evident, that Jesus is the only one that can justify or appease the Spirit of God for man to gain salvation unto eternal life.
24. Therefore it is a serious issue to overlook the coming of the Lord in the flesh – a sordid event marked by huge humiliation in order to save mankind from eternal destruction.
25. Recall, all these glorious acts are the love of God to mankind as stated in John 3:16,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
The Roads to Resurrection
26. There are two roads to resurrection!
27. These two roads are not parallel but opposite to each other running in opposite directions – suggesting that they can never meet each other.
28. Jesus Christ is the point of their departure, while their end is God. Jesus Christ is their point of departure because heavens and earth and all the things thereof are created for and through Jesus Christ by God: the beginning of all things. And at the end, all things go back to God through Jesus Christ: therefore, the end of all things is God.
29. Therefore, the choice of the road to follow is all yours. The freedom of choice is an indication of the love of God to man not compelling you against your freewill to choose, but at the same earnestly begging you to choose the road to eternal life from the road to eternal destruction. O’, what a merciful Father!
The First Resurrection: The resurrection to eternal life!
30. According to Rev. 20:4-5,
“Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those whom judgment was committed. Also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.”
31. It further stated in Rev 20:6,
“Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.”
32. Who are partakers in the first resurrection? “You are those who have continued with me in my trials; and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Luke 22;28-30
33. The partakers in the first resurrection are adjudged to be as written in 1Peter 2:9,
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
34. The second coming of Jesus Christ attest to the truth of first of resurrection as written in 1Thess. 4: 16-18,
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with sound of the trumpet of God. And dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
35. Another testament of the first resurrection is indicated in 1 Cor. 15:51-56,
“Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written (Hosea 13;14):
“Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?”
“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.”
36. Recall the angel of death is the Devil and Satan; and he was thrown in the lake of fire and Sulphur, after the first resurrection as written in Rev 20:10;
“…….and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and Sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night foe ever and ever.”
37. This act exterminated death forever, coming to pass the prophesy of Hosea as started above.
The Second Resurrection: The resurrection to Judgment!
38. It is obvious that partakers in the first resurrection have overcome the power of second death as written in Rev. 20:6,
“Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him for a thousand years.”
39. In the first resurrection not all the dead came back to life, except the faithful of the Lord as stated in Rev 20:5,
“The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.”
40. The second resurrection, as the resurrection to Judgment is recorded in Rev 20:12,
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also, another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.”
41. Check out the phrase:
‘And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.’
42. The books as mentioned are the books of death, used to judge the dead. They are dead implying life without Christ Jesus, which means eternal destruction.
43. You see there is no judgment for those whose names are written in the book of life, for they have passed from dead to life in the Lord, being judged while living on earth. Their resurrection is not to judgment but to eternal life.
44. Also check out the phrase in Rev. 20:12,
‘Also, another book was opened, which is the book of life.’
45. If you notice the book of life was not used to judge those whose names are written in it; but was used in testimony to their obedience to Lord and the word of God.
46. What was used in the second resurrection (And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne) in judgment were the books of death, (and books were opened). And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
47. In continuance of the second death, Rev 20:13-15 put forth that,
“And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
48. Finally all have been said about resurrection; there must be resurrection to life and judgment as pointed out earlier by the Lord in John 5:28-29,
“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.”
49. Therefore, resurrection of life and resurrection of judgment is the end to a new beginning of a new heaven and earth, together with a new Jerusalem according to Rev 21:1-4,
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”
50. It is then obvious that the present heavens and earth are temporary – stored up to be wiped away by fervent heat melting everything thereof no more. Why then hold onto that which is not permanent, but temporary. While not aim to that which is permanent and glorious.
51. May the grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ lead to you to true repentance unto salvation the ultimate desire of God to eternal life, such that you will escape the wrath of merciful God upon sinners, and avail yourself of the free gift of immortal life through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.