Revelation 1:8 – I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1:10,11 – I came to be in the Spirit in the Lord’s day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. Also, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
Revelation 21:6 – And He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the Water of Life freely.
Revelation 22:13 – I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last.
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Christ is the Alpha and the Omega. That is He is the First and the Last. With Alpha and Omega being the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet we can understand that Christ is the beginning and ending of all things. He has always existed and is therefore in the midst of all things. He is the full measure – the complete Word. The full language of salvation given to Man.
An ancient text brings to light further meaning to this phrase; “So also two Greek letters, the first and last, did the Lord put on Himself, symbols of the beginning and the end meeting in Him, in order that just as alpha rolls on to omega and omega returns again to alpha, so He might show that both the evolution of the beginning to the end is in Him and again the return of the end to the beginning.” (Source unknown). He is eternity – the only One who exists from the Alpha, the beginning of all things to the Omega, the ending of all things. He is completeness.
Scriptural Cross Reference
John 1:1-3 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:14-18 – And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, This was He of whom I spoke: He who comes after me has been before me, for He was preceding me. And out of His fullness we all have received, and grace for grace. For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Isaiah 41:4 – Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the first and the last; I am He.
Isaiah 43:10 – You are My witnesses, says Jehovah, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me no God was formed, nor shall there be after Me.
Isaiah 44:6 – So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of Hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides Me there is no God.
Isaiah 48:12 – Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
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