{"id":616,"date":"2011-05-07T06:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/?p=616"},"modified":"2011-05-07T06:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:42:52","slug":"alpha-and-omega-revelation-2213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/alpha-and-omega-revelation-2213\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha and Omega Revelation 22:13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its meaning is found in the fact that\u00a0<a title=\"Alpha (letter)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_(letter)\">alpha<\/a> (?) and\u00a0<a title=\"Omega (letter)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omega_(letter)\">omega<\/a> (?) are respectively the first and last letters of the Classical (Ionic)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_alphabet\">Greek alphabet<\/a>. This would be similar to referring to someone in English as the &#8220;A and Z&#8221;. Thus, twice when the title appears it is further clarified with the additional title &#8220;the beginning and the end&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reference Text:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah 44:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"en-AMP-18540\">6<\/sup>Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah 48:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"en-AMP-18627\">12<\/sup>Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called [ones]: I am He; I am the First, I also am the Last.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My\u00a0Commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talk about power and might when all things Begin and End with you. \u00a0There is just nothing else to say when you look around and nature and say what, who, how can anything make all this I go back to &#8220;The Alpha and the Omega&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its meaning is found in the fact that\u00a0alpha (?) and\u00a0omega (?) are respectively the first and last letters of the Classical (Ionic)\u00a0Greek alphabet. This would be similar to referring to someone in English as the &#8220;A and Z&#8221;. Thus, twice when the title appears it is further clarified with the additional title &#8220;the beginning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-readingstudy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}