Revelation 1:8 — Community Reflections

REVELATION 1:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end — the Greek letters alpha and omega symbolically enclose all of creation, all of history, all of meaning within Christ's sovereignty. This declaration, placed at the threshold of Revelation, announces that the entire catastrophic unfolding of chapters 2-22 occurs within Christ's complete control; nothing escapes his beginning and his ending.

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Finding rest in God — Revelation 1

Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing — both the anguish and the hope.. Their context of persecution gives these words a weight we often miss.. G...