God Is The Beginning And The End
Besides him there is no other god.
God is the beginning and the end. Alpha is the first letter of the alphabet in the language called greek. No for the thirsty god is the beginning and the end the way a desert caravan begins at an oasis and ends at an oasis. How god is the end for those not thirsty for him but there is another group of people mentioned in verse 8. In other words he always was god and he always will be god.
I am god and there is none like me. Babylon s idols 9 remember what happened long ago for i am god and there is no other. My purpose will be established and i will accomplish all my good pleasure 11 i summon a bird of prey from the east a man for my purpose from a far off land. Revelation 1 8 11 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 revelation 21 6 and he said unto me it is done.
So the meaning of revelation 1 8 is that god is the beginning and the end of all things. There is nothing we have that did not come from god. Omega is the last letter. Jesus and god are both called the alpha and omega the first and the last in scripture.
Burke which started out this way. As i was meditating on this prayer i remembered a homily given by my good friend fr. I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end. Therefore the phrase alpha and omega itself means the beginning and the end.
The god of my beginning and end. God is a fountain of life at the beginning and he is a fountain of life at the end forever. These scriptures below refer to god the father jehovah god hebrew text where he states that he alone is first and last beginning and end alpha and omega.