Revelation 1:1

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Rev. Blume:
Prove that the book At judgment is the same book taken from
the Father's hand in rev 5.

Me:
If this is the Lamb's book of Life then it is the same
book.  Why do I think that this is the Lamb's book of Life?
 Look at the evidence and the symbolism!  This is a book
that not even God on His Throne can open!  This is enough
right there!  Who CAN open this book?  No one but Jesus! 
What is the ONE book that no one but Jesus can open?  His
book of course!  

Revelation 5:1
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a
book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven
seals. 

This is a GOLD MINE!  The "books" of John's day were
scrolls of 
hide.  Now, this "dead flesh" was written "inside and out"
and was sealed with seven seals.  When one considers a
believer this is true of us too.  We are dead flesh with
the Word of God written on our hearts and written on our
"outsides" by our testimony through our works that justify
our faith in Jesus Christ.  Jesus is given this book and in
the process of opening the seven seals, sets the mechanisms
of judgment of the Earth in place but these are not
"unleashed."
seven is the number of judgment or completion.  Genesis 1,
"31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day." 
God asseses what He has gone and on the seventh day He
"rests" there by "judging" His creation "good enough." 
This takes on more signifigance later.

I think this is enough to say that this is the Lamb's book
of life.

> > Me B4:
> > (angel with book) Couldn't be Jesus.

Me:
John indentifies this being as the "angel of the Lord" at
the very beginning of the Revelation.  When does he change
into Jesus.
does this angel have many of the attributes of God.  Yeah,
the "angels of the Lord" always have, they even speak as
God in the first person.  This angel does this sometimes
and speaks as Jesus in the first person sometimes but is
still the "angel" according to John:
Revelation 1:1, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must
shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his
angel unto his servant John:"  By His angel (capital H is
mine).  It is the angel unless it says otherwise. 
 
Timothy Litteral
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