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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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