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 1:8
Jewish rabinnical literature contains a word that is roughly pronounced ‘Emet’, which means ‘truth’, and which the literature uses as one of the names or titles for God. Emet is written in Hebrew, and contains three letters, the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. That makes Emet very similar to the term used in Revelation, in which the first and last letters of the Koine Greek alphabet are used to describe, or apply a title to, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Alpha and Omega refers to His eternal existence, His power, His wisdom and knowledge, His righteousness, and His love. Of these, He is everything that could ever be and will be.
We can understand that as humans, we had a beginning. And we accept the declaration of Scripture that we will live forever. T%his is in contrast to the Lord Jesus, who never had a beginning, in fact, He is the One Who provided a beginning to everyone and everything else. We need not understand it, but we believe it. We also believe all that the Word of God has to say about His power and wisdom, which are infinite. But it is of His love that we are amazed when we consider that it is eternal and infinite. No beginning and no ending will describe, but not explain His love. A God Who is the very source of love must love us, despite our inability to understand.
A Greek writer compiling a literary work would do so using the letters of his alphabet. He would find none before Alpha, and none after Omega. With the letters between those two anchors, he would express his thoughts and relate his stories. Everything that he needed was there in that span between Alpha and Omega. Just so, everything that was needed to create our universe, to populate our planet, to fashion the masterpieces of nature, all of time and space and material, find their expression within the Alpha and Omega. We can count the letters of the alphabet, but never exhaust all that can be written with those letters. Just so, we may consider the One Who is called Jesus Christ, yet never exhaust all that He was, and is, and ever will be.
The Alpha and Omega is our reminder that everything we require as human beings is available and freely provided by Him. He is also our reminder that all that we require for eternity also finds its source in Him. The salvation He purchased for us at Calvary is infinite. The blessings He provides are eternal and incalculable. The love with which He envelopes us is boundless and unfailing. He that is without beginning nor ending is everything that we require from beginning to end. -Jim MacIntosh