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8. Going now to Revelation 20:15 what do we find?

COMMENT: Those to be burned are those conceived as tares, together with
those corrupted Israelites who, “kept not their first estate”, and who were
blotted out of the Book of Life. Those “written in the Book of Life” had had
their names written in from, “the foundation of the world”. The tares were
NEVER written in!

9. Can those who were written in genetically fail in their spiritual life by un-
belief? Hebrews 4:11; II Peter 2:10.

10. What does Revelation 17:8 speak about?

COMMENT: This verse speaks about those “whose names were NOT written
in the book of life from the foundation of the world”. What then is a name?
A “name” is not a mere tag of identification. It is an expression of essential
personality or potential and identity. Those so named who are overcomers are
to be given a “new name” (Revelation 2:17-3:12).

11. What is the condition of real fellowship? I John 1:1.

COMMENT: The “us” are the Israelite disciples. This is the condition of real
fellowship, “And truly our fellowship is the Father, and His Son Jesus
Christ”. Those of YEHOVAH’s race who believe are “fellows”!

12. Look well at the next verse. I John 3:9.

COMMENT: Most church people cannot make “head nor tails” of this verse
and the translation does not help. At first glance it appears that there are peo-
ple who cannot sin in any way at all. Popular religion wrongly changes the
word “commit” to “practices”, because it uses this only in the spiritual sense.
“Commit sin” is the single-word noun, “hamartia”. The word “born” should be
translated as “begotten” and those “begotten” are those who come from the
“sperma” of YEHOVAH God. The “seed” is the grain or kernel that contains
within itself the germ of the future plants. This “seed” is the DNA. If this DNA is
unchanged in the present physical sense, then there is no missing the mark
(sin) in regard to what the “seed” is. This is in the physical sense only, just
as the “seed” of Abraham is physical. (In the spiritual sense though, this seed
can sin by unbelief).

13. This is clarified by Romans 9:11.

COMMENT: This “seed" always brings us back to “the seed of Abraham”. This
is a genetic seed selected by YEHOVAH God before “having done good or
evil”. It has nothing to do with being converted. But for this “seed” to become

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