Song 8 -- Alpha and Omega

In the Book of Revelations, Jesus reveals Himself as being, the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, and the Beginning and the End.  Like I stated in other Bloggs, besides Jesus revealing to John things about the end times, in the Book of Revelations, Jesus also revealed who He is.  In the Book of Isaiah Chapter 44, verse 6, it reads, " Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ' I am the first and the last, and there is no God besides Me."  In verse 24, "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the One who formed you from the womb, I the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out thet heavens by myself, and sprending out the earth all alone."  The first and the last is a King, the Lord, God , Creator and Redeemer.  A redeemer is someone who pays the price to gain pocession of something.  This is exactly what Jesus did by dying on the cross.  He died in our place, and as a result, he purchased for us, what we were not able to purchase for ourselves, and that is salvation.  Thus the name Jesus (Yeshua), which means, the Lord our Salvation.  If someone comes to Jesus and receives what He did for them, then Jesus' Spirit will dwell in them.  This is why Paul said in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians Chapter 13, verse 5, " Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you ----."  Jesus dwells in believers by the presence of His Holy Spirit.  His Spirit is what allows someone to be born of the Spirit, which Jesus also referred to as being born of above and born again.  This is how the New Creation comes into existance.  In the same letter chapter 5,verse17, Paul wrote,"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away: behold new things have come."  Jesus said that he removed our sin as far as the east is from the west and that they would be remembered no more.