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Jesus is Lord Day 7
"Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."(Revelation 1.7-11)
Primary Truth
As in his Gospel, which starts with "In the beginning was the Word....," John begins his Revelation letters with the truth that the Lord God is an eternal being. This is one of only two places where the Lord God speaks directly.1 The Lord God uses the first letter in the Greek alphabet, "Alpha" (in the diagram to the right) and last letter "Omega" (in the diagram to the right) are titles for Jesus. The Lord God describes Jesus as the Ruler of the past, "the alpha," the present, and the future, "the omega." Without Jesus, there is nothing that is eternal, nothing that lasts beyond this life, nothing that opens up a future in heaven.
Jesus is Lord
"Every eye will see" Jesus Christ who is the "Beginning" and the "End." In a similar way, at the end of Revelation, Jesus is called, the "First" and the "Last." It is a basic truth that God controls the whole of time and our whole lives from beginning to end.
Meditation
Is the Lord Jesus, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and Omega in your life?
Prayer
We praise you, Lord Jesus. We glorify you, Alpha and Omega, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. Amen
Notes
1see also Revelation 21.5 to 8
"In the beginning was the Word...."
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