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Dr. Arnold Murray, DRE
Blotted out. What does it mean
to us in relation to God's Word? [n
as much as there is nothing new
under the sun, an observant person
is able to better understand His Plan.
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A drop of rain falls in the hills,
and thero shall be no more death,
runs into a river, flows to an ocean,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
evaporates into the air to fall back on the hills again.
there be any more pain: for the former things are
[f you are paying attention, you may see His Plan as
passed away"
it is rehearsed over and over. There is nothing new
under the sun.
Imagine. no sorrow, nor crying, or pain, or death.
The English word eternal is translated from the
Greek word "aiomos" (ahee-o'-nee-os) which means all
the way from the beginning without interruption. People
often use the word preexistence in reference to souls.
This is actually incorrect terminology. Souls exist from
the point they were created through eternity. That is
unless they are blotted out.
In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.
God said in [saiah 45: 18 the earth was formed to be
inhabited. It was inhabited in the first world age, but
the earth became without form and void. This may be
eaSily documented if you will take Genesis 1:2 back
to the Hebrew using a Strong's Concordance. The earth
became without form and void due to Satan's rebellion.
God created everything for His pleasure. Possibly,
He created souls. or man, because He was lonely. After
all, we were created in His own image and we don't
enjoy being alone all of the time. When He created us,
He gave us free will. He didn't program us to love Him.
The Lord gave us the free will to love Him or Satan.
I encourage you to love Him. If you choose to love
Satan instead, you will be blotted out as I will document
in the remainder of this lecture.
If I drew a line on a chalk board and then erased
it, where would the line be? Gone. Blotted out. That
is exactly what will happen to those that choose to love
Satan. This is the reason there will be no tears for those
that go to hell. There will be no remembrance of them.
It will be as though they never existed. Let's go to the
Scriptures with Jesus teaching.
MATTHEW 10:28 And fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear
Him Which is able to destroy both soul and body in
hell.
Fear. or revere, Him that has the ability to blot out
both your flesh body and your spiritual body. After the
millennium, that thousand year period when the Elect
will teach God's Word, and the earth has been reju­
venated, God will dwell with men. We will be in the
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spiritual body Paul taught us about in
I Corinthians 15:44. What will be­
come of death then?
REVELA TlON 21 A And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes;
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All of those things will be blotted from our minds as
tears from our eyes. This is the reward for those that
choose to love God. What about those that love Satan'l
REVELATION 21 :8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and
the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers. and
sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have thelf
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone,
which is the second death."
Does the Bible say they will all be in the lake of
fire screaming for mercy forever? No, it says the lake
which bumeth is the second death. It will be over for
them ..... fmished. Let's tum back one chapter. Don't forget
to tum your Biblical clock back to the period during
the millennium so you understand what is being said.
We are going to pick it up at the end of the millennium
where God has taken control and judges those that chose
to follow Satan when he was loosed for a short while.
Remember, no flesh bodies at this time, dear ones. we
are in spiritual bodies.
REVELATION 20:13-14 And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them: and they. were judged every
man according to their works. M And death and hell
were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death
The spiritually dead, those that choose to follow
Satan, and hell will be cast into the lake of tirt'. ThiS
is the second death or spiritual death.
REVELATION 20:15 And whosoever was not 'our-d
written in the book of life was cast into the lal(8 of
fire,
A lot of people worry about having a chur,'11 kiter
And. there is nothing wrong with having a church lellt'r:
however. you had better spend a lot more energv malin!,!
sure your name is written in the book of life .~nvone
that inquires about joining Shepherd's Chapel is told to
take the matter up with the Father. If you :ue good
enough for Him, you are surely good enough tL)r u~
Please God. If tbat pleases men, great. If that d~sn't
please men, tough. Make certain your name IS 10 HIS
book. Make certain your soul is not blotted out bnf1!,!IIl!:O
about the second death. Let's tum to Ecclesia.-;tes \\ Iwe
 God instructs us on the matter of death.
ECCLESIASTES 9.1·2 For al/ this I considered in my
heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and
the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no
man knoweth either love or hatred by al/ that is before
them . .. All things come alike to all. there is one event
to the righteous, and to the wicked, to the good and
to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacnficeth,
and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is
the smner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth
an oath.
There is one thing all of us in the flesh must do
besides pay taxes.
ECCLESIASTES 9:3 That is an evil among all things
that are done under the sun, that there is one event
into al/: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full
of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live,
and after that they go to the dead.
Weare all going to die a flesh death or undergo
a change into our spiritual bodies at the seventh trump.
ECCLESIASTES 9:4 For to him that is joined to aI/
the living there is hope.' for a living dog is better than
a dead lion.
If your soul possesses your body rather than your
body possessing your soul, there is hope. As far as flesh
alone is concerned. a lowly living dog is better than
a "king of the jungle" lion that is dead.
ECCLESIASTES 9:5 For the living know that they shall
die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they
any more a reward; for the memory of them is for·
. gotten.
When the flesh body dies, only a pile of minerals
remain. I believe the death of a flesh body and the death
of a spiritual body are the same word in God's vocabu­
lary. Do you remember the second death we discussed?
Why would He say, "fear not them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul". The death of one
is the same as the other. After the death. there is
nothing left. It's gone .... erased. There is a "blotted out"
under the sun, or on earth, and there is a "blotted out"
in heaven. Those that are blotted out in the flesh will
have a chance for spiritual eternity in the millennium.
It is a much more serious thing to be spiritually blotted
out in heaven. An example of fleshly blotted out is
found in the following verses.
DEUTERONOMY 29:2Q The LORD will not spare him,
but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall
smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD
shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Did the Word say this sinner would be blotted out
forever? No, it said he would be blotted out under
heaven, or on earth. This sinner would still have a
chance to repent. An example of spiritual blotting out,
a much more serious thing, may be found in Exodus.
Moses saw the people of Israel had built a golden calf
while he was on the mount receiving the command­
ments. He was so distraught he went back to God and
asked Him to forgive the people or blot Moses's name
out of His book.
EXODUS 32:33 And the LORD said into Moses, "Whosoever
hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.
Another example of spiritual blotting out may be
found in Psalms. Let's pick it up in verse 21 so you
will recognize whose words are spoken.
PSALMS 6921·22 . They gave me also gal/ for my
meat; And m my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Z2 Let their table become a snare before them. And
that whi:;h should have been for their welfare, let it
become a trap.
What was given to Jesus for drink on the cross?
His crucifixion should have been for their welfare. but
it will become a trap to many that worship the 'WTong
messiah.
PSALMS 69:23-25 Let their eyes be darkened, that
they see not; And make their loins continually to
shake. ~ Pour out Thine indignation upon them, And
let Thy wrathful anger take hold of them. ~ Let their
habitation be desolate; And let none dwell in their
tents.
Take away all of their bleSSings.
PSALMS 69:26·28 For they persecute him whom
Thou hast smitten; And they talk to the grief of those
whom Thou hast wounded. U Add iniquity unto their
iniquity' And let them not come into Thy righteousness.
2§ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
And not be written with the righteous.
That is the book in heaven, friend. That is the
book of which you never want to be blotted out. After
Christ was placed in the tomb, He went to those which
had been blotted out in the flesh in the prisons of
their graves, as is written in I Peter 3: 19. He gave
those that had been blotted out from the time of Noah,
a chance to place their name in the eternal book of
life. There is a difference between blotting out under
heaven and blotting out in heaven. It is important to
understand this difference because it means the love
of our Father won't allow souls to bum in hell forever
as some would have you believe. Those that are spiri·
tually blotted out will be erased from all memory. In
closing let's turn to Revelation. Christ is speaking to
the church in Sardis.
REVELATION 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall
be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out
his name out of the book of life, but I will confess
his name before My Father, and before His angels.
To be blotted out is to not exist, nor to have ever
existed. The second death erases a soul from time
eternal. God loves us so much, that he came to this
world in the fonn of Christ our Savior. If He hadn't,
I guess we would have all been blotted out. But.
through repentance we all have the chance to wipe the
slate clean and gain eternal life. We have a truly
loving Father.
In His Service,
a~/l~vc:s-
Arnold Murray (