Alpha and Omega

A study of Heaven taken from Revelation 21, 22

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” REVELATION 22:13, RSV

In the first chapter of the Revelation God identifies himself with the sentence, “I am the Alpha and the Omega” (Rev. 1:8). In the final vision this is expanded to “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end” (Rev. 22:13).

Alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet; Omega is the last. Alpha and Omega include between them all the letters. Anything written must use the letters of the alphabet. God is all the letters of the alphabet. All that is written comes from who God is. A revealing God who is complete in himself has given us a revelation of himself which is now complete.

REVERSED THUNDER

Eugene H. Peterson, God’s Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006).