In Exodus 15:2,
2 Yahweh is my strength and song, and He has become my Yashua;
this is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will extol
Him.
This is repeated in Isaiah 12:2, 3, Jesus applied Isaiah’s words to Himself in John 7:37-39. As
history proves, God came to earth in the form of Yashua, as prophesied in the Old Testament.
Jesus Christ was incarnated in the earth through Mary.
In Rev. 1:8,
8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and
who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
So according to what I have been reading on some of these post… we have two Almighties.
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Omega is the last letter. God knows the
end from the beginning. More than that, HE IS the beginning and the end. This is a reference
to the timeless nature of the spiritual realm. Whereas we on earth are normally bound by
time and space, God is not bound in the same way. He is “the Almighty.” In fact, Revelation
1:8 implies that He is “the Almighty” in that He knows the beginning from the end. In fact,
He IS—that is, He exists—in the beginning and the end at the same time.
If we find this difficult to comprehend, it is only because we see events of history occurring
on a linear time line, while God sees history from a higher perspective. To Him, all of history
has no time line but occurs in the ever-present at the same moment. All history is a
momentary event.
Some Christian authors in recent years have put forth the idea that God only knows
everything that He needs to know. They say that God does not really know what man
will do until He does it. They say that if God really knew the end from the beginning,
it would violate man’s free will. Hence, such authors have sacrificed even the
foreknowledge of God upon the altar of free will. In doing this, they undermine or
deny the very possibility of Bible prophecy, for how could God predict anything with
certainty if He had any ignorance of the future? All Bible prophecy would be reduced
to an educated guess.
Such preposterous views come from men who think that God is as much bound by
time as we are. But John says that He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is not only
the beginning, but the end as well. John repeats this assertion in Revelation 22:13.
Revelation 1:1 says that this is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Verse 8 identifies Jesus
as “the Lord God” and as “the Almighty.” The Greek word translated “Almighty” is
pantokrator. It is a compound Greek word that means “all-ruling or all-powerful.”
Even before the time of Christ, the Septuagint (Greek) translation of the Old
Testament used this word as the translation of the Hebrew term, “Lord of Hosts.”
(See 2 Sam. 5:10 and 7:25, 27.)
Jesus Christ is the God of the Old Testament, the Creator (John 1:1-3) and the
One who gave the law to Moses. As I showed earlier, Exodus 15:2 reads, literally,
"Yahweh. . . has become my Yahshua,” or Joshua, the Hebrew name for Jesus.
This is repeated in Isaiah 12:2, 3. Jesus’ Hebrew name, Yahshua, literally means
"salvation,” and this is why it is translated in this manner. Even so, it is also a
literal reference to Jesus Christ.
And so when Jesus identifies Himself as the Alpha and Omega and “the Almighty,”
He is referring to Himself as the Lord of hosts in the Old Testament. It means that
He is Lord not only of the hosts of heaven, but also of the earth. This foreshadows
one of the primary purposes of the book of Revelation, which presents Jesus Christ
as "the Almighty” (Rev. 19:15) and as “King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16).
It presents Christ as ruling His creation—the earth and all that is in it. The future is
good. Jesus Christ wins in the end. His dominion will be from sea to sea. His will be
an unending Kingdom that will never be destroyed.
Can we get happy about this TRUTH?
Logabe