Revelation 1:8; Which Was, Which, Is, Which Is to Come

Revelation 1:8 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.

The Lord Jesus speaks these words, He is God Almighty. He came as a Suffering Servant in His first coming. But in His Second Coming, He will come as a Judge. Jesus was with the Father in the beginning of no beginnings.

The Proverbs describe well this truth in Proverbs 8:22-26 – 22 The LORD (God the Father) possessed (co-existed with) me (Wisdom, Jesus) in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 23 I (Wisdom, Jesus) was set up from everlasting (there was never a time the Son did not exist as God), from the beginning, or ever the earth was. (Before all His works, Jesus was with the Father.) 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

God the Father and His only begotten Son Jesus Christ personified as Wisdom that was with Jehovah (the LORD) in eternity past before the world was ever made (Prov. 8:22-26). It teaches the eternal relation of the Son (Wisdom) to the Father.

In the fullness of time, Jesus entered human history, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin woman, lived a righteous life among men, crucified on the cross, died and rose again the third day, conquering sin and death on behalf of men, ascended to heaven to be seated at the right hand of the Father.

Hebrews 1:1-4 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

This is He Who will be coming again, the Almighty God to judge the world. May this message of reckoning bring conversion and consecration to the lives of men and women for His honour and glory. Amen.