My Favorite Verses - Vol IV (Nov 16 to Feb 17)
A collection of brief commentaries on some of the Bible’s most beloved (and often least understood) passages, parables, verses & sayings
A collection of brief commentaries on some of the Bible’s most beloved
(and often least understood) passages, parables, verses & sayings
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Revelation 1:8 …The Alpha & the Omega<br />
(11/24/20<strong>16</strong>)<br />
“I am the Alpha & the Omega.”<br />
~ unknown (Revelation 1:8)<br />
First & foremost, it is crucial <strong>to</strong> realize that the book of Revelation as a whole<br />
is a highly misunders<strong>to</strong>od <strong>to</strong>me. While it has been used by the Christian church <strong>to</strong><br />
support the claim that Jesus will “come again” in the future, it was actually an<br />
anti-Roman revolutionary text that was speaking of its own contemporary time &<br />
place ... And while many a Christian uses Revelation <strong>to</strong> show that Jesus is<br />
ultimately a deity of wrath & judgment, sincere students of the Bible know that it<br />
is not Jesus at all who utters such wicked words in that book (but actually one of the<br />
Elohim -- a “fallen angel” -- who does so), and indeed that the “Jesus” mentioned<br />
therein repeatedly and quite specifically contradicts everything for which Jesus<br />
himself lived and everything he himself taught in the Gospels.<br />
That having been said, this verse does offer a glimpse of Truth nonetheless;<br />
namely the Truth that Love – like God (and the Universe, and the Soul) – is far<br />
beyond every “beginning”, and thus that true, selfless Love indeed has no end.<br />
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