Who Is Christ?

And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.

Revelation 22:12-13

How does Christ describe Himself?  As God closes the canon of Scripture, He gives John a powerful sight of Christ.  There is no better description of Christ than that which He gives of Himself.  He describes Himself in two verses in this chapter.  The first is before us.  He says, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.’  This is not arrogance, but accuracy.  Alpha and Omega are the beginning and ending letters of the Greek alphabet.  We find Christ saying the same thing in three different ways to emphasize the point He is making.  John declared in the first verse of his gospel.  ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ and goes on to say later, ‘all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.’  In this regard, and in every other, Christ is the Beginning.  He is the Origin and He is also the Conclusion.  All that we know and understand about creation, humanity, salvation, damnation, time and eternity begins and ends with Christ.  It is for this reason and for other reasons that we must make much of Christ.  All of our theology, our thinking, our reasoning, our living, our dying, and our eternity rests upon the foundation that Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.  He Alone is worthy.

Our Glorious Living God,
we rejoice in You and in Christ, Your only begotten Son.
We praise You that You have sent Him
to accomplish all that is necessary for our good,
for time and for eternity.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning