Note Card: The Books and the Book

Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.

January 13, 2001
At the Great White Throne, the appeals will be to books, not computer discs, for the records will be written. ...not videos, for they are deceptive as TV is deceptive, and besides, the scripture specifies books.  ...not witnesses, for they lie, twist, and withhold information...not earthly books, for anything can be and has been published.  But records are being kept in heaven of what earthlings do, what they say, what they think, why they do these things, what are their intentions.  Things written as they are happening are accepted as evidence in courts of law.  ...written by beings who do not sin, who observe what is done, said and thought here, whose duty it is to record exactly what happened.  Nothing is said about how many books there are, what their titles are, where they are kept.  One thing is certain:  All history - all of history - is recorded in those books. 


Everything in this world that is false will be laid bare when those books are opened, all coverups, stonewalls, rewritten history, glosses - the real reasons - everything to the penny will be known - nothing missing or lost or blotted out except the sins of those who claim the sacrifice of Christ perhaps.  But this judgement is not for the saints apparently, for that will have been done and settled earlier.  There is one book that is distinguished from all the rest - the book of life - one book that means the most to the saints, for it is full of names, apparently, for there is a New Testament reference to "names are written in the book of life."  What a relief it will be to see one's own name written there, for those whose names are not recorded there shall be cast into the lake of fire because of the things written in the other books.