beloved57
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Luke 10:17-20
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Can ones name written in heaven be blotted out ? The answer is NO, for it has been permanently written in heaven. This was discovered by a simple reading of the greek wherein the word written in Vs 20 is in the perfect indicative passive, which the perfect tense denotes:
"The perfect tense expresses perfective action. Perfective action involves a present state which has resulted from a past action. The present state is a continuing state; the past action is a completed action.
So the proper notion here is that their names have been permanently written in heaven.
Hence the reason why they should be rejoicing !
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Can ones name written in heaven be blotted out ? The answer is NO, for it has been permanently written in heaven. This was discovered by a simple reading of the greek wherein the word written in Vs 20 is in the perfect indicative passive, which the perfect tense denotes:
"The perfect tense expresses perfective action. Perfective action involves a present state which has resulted from a past action. The present state is a continuing state; the past action is a completed action.
So the proper notion here is that their names have been permanently written in heaven.
Hence the reason why they should be rejoicing !