"I am Alpha
and Omega”
As we all know, Alpha and Omega are the first
and last letters of the Greek Alphabet. While
they give us different characters and help us to
express ourselves in writing, they have, for all
practical purposes – the same meaning. They
speak of the eternality of life in conjunction
with the God The Father and Jesus the Son.
We find in Colossians 1:17, that nothing existed
before God.
“He is
before all things, and by him all things
consist”
Ps 102:27
tells us…
“But thou
art the same, and thy years shall have no end.”
Somebody’s not
going to like it, but I have to say it again…
This is once again that underlying prevalent
theme of the WORD of God which speaks of, He
“which was, which is, and which is to come.”
What’s more – God wasn’t finished with that
verse. He wanted John to get out the WORD once
and for all who He IS. He says…
“which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty."
That qualifier at the end tells us that He is
not ONLY The Beginning and The Ending, but He is
Sovereign! HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
Since He Loved us SO MUCH that He gave us His
only begotten son Jesus to give His life in our
place, we find in Christ these eternal
absolutes:
-
He is
eternal
-
He love us
with an EVERLASTING LOVE!
-
He took
our place on Calvary and made us “at-one”
with the Father. In other words He became
our substitutionary Atonement.
-
He Is KING
OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS
-
He is The
ETERNAL Priest after the order of
Melchizedek
-
He is
Sovereign.
Now Look at
Exodus 3:14. There is a powerful message in this
verse.
“And
God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you”.
Upon entering
this study in Revelation the Risen Lord is
wanting to make it clear to you and I today that
regardless of all our plans or the plans of man,
God is still in control. You cannot rush Him and
you cannot slow Him down. He’s an “on-time” God.
But even more than that, He has commissioned
each of us to go to the strongholds of mankind
in our areas – our sphere of influence and say,
"I AM"
hath sent me unto you to tell you of His
love, and His grace and His mercy.
That is after
all the thrust of the Book of Revelation and the
Gospel of Christ - to bring the lost and
dying to the awesome knowledge that He is the
First and Last, and that He has the Power to
handle anything in between. Glory To His Name!
