The beginning of time was set in order by names . . .
The end of all time will also be entirely about names.

Every person's name will be defined by its real nature
and labeled by the secret choices of living . . .
known only to God.
Every name will be called by the One
who assigns names, and . . . alone knows names.

    
God has a new name waiting for each of His children,
secret letters that spells our destiny, but a title
bestowed only upon ones who overcome
"religiosity" and who
"love not the world" unlike Balaam.
  (A) new name written on the stone
which no one knows
but he who receives it.
Rev. 2:17

God knows the real name of everything and
He knows our defiant labels
that gush from human presumption.

God identifies by reality not facade.
There will be ones like Sardis:
"you have a name that
you are alive, but you are dead."
Rev. 3:1
    
In the end
your name will be named before the God of the universe
all the host of heaven,
and the company of saints eternal
or . . . your name will not be mentioned.

He who overcomes will thus be
clothed in white garments: and
I will not erase his name from the book of life,
and I will confess his name before
My Father and before His angels.
Rev. 3:5

The Book of Life will be written with names-entered
and also with blanks by the absence of names-removed . . .
according to our hidden history of true obedience.

Christ Jesus' life and holiness are expressed in His name
and to "keep His Word and not deny His name"
will bring about
the bestowing of a three-part name:
    
"I will write on him the name of my God,
and the name of the city of My God,
the new Jerusalem . . . and My new name.
Rev. 3:12
    
The final and enduring glory of names will be the
privilege offered to every TRUE believer . . .
to bear the name of God,
the name Jerusalem
- and the ultimate glory -
the very secret name of the Son of God!

Almighty God records His children by names
and in the final City of the Eternal Light, only those whose
"names are written in the Lamb's book of life"
will enter.
Rev. 21:27
    
God is a God who deals in names,
who discerns the identity of the whole
and of every part . . .

and Who Alone names all things.

Copyright © 2001 Martha Blaney Kilpatrick