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The Alpha and Omega: The Everlasting God


There is popular worship song that has a chorus that says, “He is the Everlasting God, the Everlasting God..” The Everlasting God comes from the name El Olam, “Lord, You have been our dwelling place for all generations…even from everlasting to everlasting [El Olam].” (Psalm 90:1-2) and, “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.” (Isaiah 40:28).  El Olam means the God who is everlasting to everlasting, beginning and end (Alpha and Omega), the same yesterday, today, and forever, which is Jesus Christ!:  “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever,” (Hebrews 13:8) and, “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last (Alpha and Omega). I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever ! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.” (Revelation 1:17-18) and as Isaiah said the Lord is the Everlasting God, “The LORD is the everlasting God,” (Isaiah 40:28), and the Lord is Jesus, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved,” (Romans 10:9), and “Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11). It is evident that Jesus is the Everlasting God because He is Lord (Isaiah 40:28, Philippians 2:9-11) and the Alpha and Omega! 

The Alpha and Omega is the Greek for El Olam,  the Everlasting God, “In the NT, 5598 ("Ōmega") is always used of the glorified Christ (Rev 1:8, 21;6, 22:13), referring to His absolute limitlessness to meet all the needs of finite (limited) people” (Strong’s Concordance, Intilnear Greek). This name of our Lord Jesus Christ is key, He is the everlasting, always lasting, ever existing, eternal, neverending, perpetual, antiquity & futurity [עוֺלָם439], ; and so this makes sense that because Jesus is the Everlasting God, in Him is everlasting life, “for God so loves the world He gave His only begotten not made Son and whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJV). Christ is the Everlasting Lord God (Isaiah 40:28, Romans 10:9), and He purchased everlasting life for us by dying on the cross; the Everlasting God pouring our everlasting life upon us as His blood soaked up our sins!; the everlasting God poured out everlasting life upon us!         


The Alpha and Omega, the Everlasting God who is Jesus Christ had to be the One to die for our sins so that we may receive everlasting life through faith and belief in Him as Lord and Son of God (Philippians 3:9, John 3:16, John 6:40, Romans 10:9). Our faith must reside in Jesus who is Everlasting God and in whom everlasting life wells up like spring of water inside us for He lives inside us who believe, “Anyone who confesses Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15). We saints have the Everlasting God inside us (Colossians 1:27) and we live in Him; and in Him is the everlasting life already inside us because He has purchased it for us on the cross and He is source of everlasting itself, forever and forevermore, Amen!  






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