2/25/2023 0 Comments Omega meaningWe may be perfectly healthy today, and lying on sickbed (or dying on a deathbed!) tomorrow! There is no guarantee that a storm will not pass through your neighborhood and destroy your house in the coming months. The money we have in the bank right now may be gone in the next hour. There is no certainty that we will live to be elderly. While we can and may plan all we want, there is no guarantee we will even be around to see those ideas brought to fruition. We cannot leave the universe, so space limits us. Age limits us, as physical death comes to all of us. Time limits us, as we are only here for a short time in this life. Our home is this oblate spheroid of rock and water, Earth therefore, we cannot see everything there is to see. Our material wealth can be reduced to a number (very small in the grand scheme of things!) therefore, we cannot do everything there is to do. Our mind is puny therefore, we cannot know everything there is to know. We are not “Alpha and Omega.” Our physical strength is limited therefore, we cannot do everything we want to do. It is guaranteed that He will always fulfill His will and ensure creation is governed most carefully.įriend, we are finite, weakly creatures. He is completely outside of time and space. He does not need to ask anyone’s permission, or seek outside advice before acting. The God of the Bible has unlimited power to fulfill His will, to do of His good pleasure. Now that He has formed creation, He will always remain to see that creation serves His intended purpose. From “everlasting to everlasting”-going back in time forever to going forward in time forever-He is God. As the Psalmist extolled, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God” (Psalm 90:2). “I am Alpha and Omega” means that, whatever God starts, He will be there to finish. Now, what does this expression mean exactly? If we were using English, it would be, “I am A and Z.” Or, in Hebrew, “I am Aleph and Tav.” When the God of the Bible says He is “Alpha and Omega,” He is literally saying that He is “the beginning and the end,” “the first and the last” (refer to the verses above). Omega (Ω,ω) is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Revelation 22:13: “ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”Īlpha (Α,α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet-Greek being the original language of the “New Testament” Scriptures (including Revelation).I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Revelation 21:6: “And he said unto me, It is done.Revelation 1:11: “Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.”.Revelation 1:8: “ 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.”.Jesus Christ says it on four occasions in these following verses in King James Bible: The title “Alpha and Omega” is unique to the Book of the Revelation. Have you ever wondered what it means? Let us take the Bible and look! “For what saith the Scriptures?” Maybe you have never read the Bible, but you have at least heard the expression spoken in “Christian” circles. Surely, dear friend, if you are a diligent Bible student, you have encountered the phrase, “I am Alpha and Omega,” at least once. WHAT DOES GOD MEAN, “I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA?”
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