And He came and took the Book

Revelation 5: 6 – 7: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

The taking of the Book by the slain Lamb happened firstly in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. This great event is what the sons of God rejoiced at in Job 38: 7 and Revelation 5: 8 – 14. When the prophet of God preached the seven seals in 1963, this was an opening of the Book on a dispensational level on the earth. There is however another, more deeper meaning to the taking of the sacred Book.

In Genesis 5: 21 – 24 we read of how Enoch walked with God, and that he did not die because God “took” him. Enoch was raptured to Heaven, and it is from this that we can unravel the mystery of the full taking of the Book in Revelation 5. The Book of Redemption contains the names of God’s sons and daughters, for when Christ is seen in Daniel 12: 1, He is descending from Heaven to deliver the names written in the Book. All of God’s sons and daughters from seven church ages have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, so when the Bride of seven ages is raptured to Heaven, then this will be another taking of the Book, a taking of a people from this world to the next.