Jesus speaks and identifies Himself as the Alpha and the Omega. Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega" communicates that He is eternal, outside of time, and all of time is held in His sovereign hands. He is the Lord God "who is and who was and who chooses to be coming, the Almighty." “Who is” speaks of Jesus being the Hayah, for He is the “I AM”.[1]Being rendered in the present active participle, it speaks of His eternal self-existent nature. “Who was” speaks of His incarnation, or His life on the Earth as a man, including His death and resurrection in bodily form. “Who now chooses to be coming” points to the fact that in His resurrected body, “He now is coming. He is the “Almighty” (El Shaddai)—all powerful and therefore fully able to accomplish all that He has promised and revealed.
John sees the glorified Son of Man. The image reveals His glory and depicts His royalty, divinity, authority, purity. Righteousness, penetrating wisdom, purifying fires of judgment, right to judge with each step, His sheer power and majesty, strength and authority, the one who cannot be deceived or misled.
