Alpha and Omega

Revelation 21:6

 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. "

Yesterday we focused on the finished work of Christ in its perfection as a complete atonement.  It is the end,  in that there is no more needed afterwards.  It is done.

But today we widen out look at the preeminence of Christ.

He is not only the Omega,  the end, but he is also the beginning,  the Alpha,  the original,  in that from him all things originate.

He is the original Alpha Male.

John says, in the beginning was the word (Jesus) and Paul says that all things were created by him,  for him and through him.

He says that 'in him all things hold together'
And that 'in him we live and move and have our being'.

A biblical christian will understand that it is not possible to have too high a view of Jesus Christ. He he is the Alpha and Omega.

And such is the nature of his eternal completeness and perfection that he is referred to as 'The lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world '.

How mysterious and profound is that?

There is something about the integrity of his perfection and completion that though the event had not yet occurred historically,  in the heart and Character of Christ,  in was already a finished work, a done deal.

And he is the beginning and the end.  Nothing happens outside of his understanding and knowledge,  nor out of his sovereign control.

This is the cosmic Christ.

And though he is alpha,  the cornerstone,  the very foundation,  not only of salvation but of creation too,  he is 'the stone the builder's rejected'. Men and women who should have been building on him have rejected him as a foundation for their lives,  opting instead for foundations of sand and houses of wood and straw.

But this Cornerstone has become the Capstone.  The last stone to be placed on the building. The crowning glory.  The signal of completion. The Omega.

To those who build on this foundation,  he is the perfect rock,  the foundation,  the cornerstone and the capstone of the house that will not fall when the floods come.

He is the master builder too.

You are secure in him.

Whatever befalls.

No power of hell,
No scheme of Man,
Can ever pluck you from his hand.

From beginning to ending,  Jesus work is perfect and all saving.

This day,
And all days,

Amen.