REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Four -"The Alpha and the Omega"

 Now, wonder of wonders! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself speaks.  How appropriate this is as a preface to the visions that are about to unfold, since he is our Grand Instructor and the ultimate Source of Revelation! (Isaiah 30:20) Our God declares: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, . . . the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8) This is the first of three times in Revelation that Jehovah himself speaks from heaven. ( See also Revelation 21:5-8; 22:12-15) First century Christians would quickly have recognized  alpha and omega as the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet.  Jehovah's calling himself  by those two letters  stresses that before him there was no almighty God, and there will be none after him.  He will bring to a successful conclusion,  for all eternity, the issue of Godship.  He will be  forever vindicated as the one and only almighty God, Supreme Sovereign  over all    his creation. - Compare ISAIAH 46:10; 55:10, 11.

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