Lord of All / David Jeremiah

 

Lord of All I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. Revelation 22:13    Genesis 1:1 says that God created the heavens and the earth—meaning heavens, earth, and everything in between. The psalmist says God knows when he sits and when he stands, when he goes out and when he lays down—meaning God is “acquainted with all [his] ways” (Psalm 139:2-3). This is a linguistic figure of speech called merism—two contrasting opposites which represent the extremes and everything in between.

Recommended Reading: Isaiah 44: 6

Jesus employed this technique three times in the book of Revelation (and the Father once) when He declared Himself the Alpha and Omega (the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet), the Beginning and the End, and the First and the Last (Revelation 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13). Not only is it a way of saying that God is “all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:28; Ephesians 1:23), but that time and history begin and end with Christ. All things were created by Him (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16), and all things will be consummated by Him “when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father” (1 Corinthians 15:24). Christ is Lord of heaven, earth, time, eternity, and everything in between. In Him we are certain of our future. The cross is the center of the world’s history. Alexander MacLaren