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4.4.3.4 - Beast Worshipers are Unique
Another possible explanation is to understand the references to God's book (Ex. [[32:32-33|bible.2.32.32-2.32.33]]), the book of the living (Ps. [[69:28|bible.19.69.28]]), the book (Dan. [[12:1|bible.27.12.1]]), the Book of Life (Php. [[4:3|bible.71.4.3]]; Rev. [[3:5|bible.87.3.5]]+; [[17:8|bible.87.17.8]]+; Rev. [[20:12|bible.87.20.12]]+, [[15|bible.87.20.15]]+; [[22:19|bible.87.22.19]]+), and the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev. [[13:8|bible.87.13.8]]+; [[21:27|bible.87.21.27]]+) as all describing the same book. This book:
  1. Records the names of all people to be born with the exception of those who will worship the beast during the Tribulation.
  2. The names of the unsaved are blotted out of the book.
  3. The names of the beast worshipers are uniquely omitted (Rev. [[13:8|bible.87.13.8]]+; [[17:8|bible.87.17.8]]+).
The difficulty with this view is explaining why those who worship the beast are omitted from the book entirely rather than being written in and then blotted out with the rest of the unredeemed? Perhaps the answer can be found in the uniqueness of the historic role and attributes which attend this particular group of the unredeemed? As we noted elsewhere, the phrase "those who dwell on the earth" is used in a very special sense in the book of Revelation--describing a moral category rather than a geographical position. Consider these facts concerning the earth dwellers:Perhaps divine disgust for this ultimate global expression of human idolatry and blasphemy at the end of history will be the occasion for the total omission of any record of these individuals, the "earth dwellers" of the end (Rev. [[21:4|bible.87.21.4]]+).

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