64 BOOK of Life, when were our names written in the Lamb’s — of life, C. H. Cayce “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”— Rev. 17:8.
This is a plain statement that those whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world shall wonder. This being true, those whose names were written in the book of life from the foundation of the world shall not wonder. No statement could be clearer that the names of some were written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”— Rev. 13:8.
“My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”— Psa. 139:15-16.
David is here impersonating or representing Christ. God’s children, the redeemed, those who will finally enter heaven, are represented as being the body of Christ. The eyes of the Lord saw His substance, His children, when they had not been created; and in His book they were all written when there was none of them. They were, therefore, written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. The Primitive Baptist, Feb. 26, 1907