Christ Is The First And The Last

    In this article I will be going over many verses that tell you that God, Jehovah is the First and the Last then I will show you how those things are attributed to Christ and Christ Himself calls Himself the First and the Last.

• Isaiah 41:4 Part I

    4 Who has acted and done this, Summoning the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the First One; And with the last ones I am the same."

• Isaiah 44:6 Part II

    6 This is what Jehovah says, The King of Israel and his Repurchaser, Jehovah of armies: "I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but me."

• Isaiah 48:12 Part III

    12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I have called. I am the same One. I am the first; I am also the last.-"

• Revelation 1:8 Part IV

    8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says Jehovah God, "the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty." 

    So clearly it is Jehovah, God the Father who is the First and the Last, it seems Revelation has kept faithful to what the Old Testament said. That is according to the Jehovah witnesses' New World Translation 2013. You see, the name 'Jehovah', in Revelation has never been there until they made their translation. Not a single Greek manuscript of the New Testament has the divine name in it. The Society added the divine name 237 times into the New Testaments by replacing the term "Lord" and "God" in certain verses, specifically in verses about Christ that shows that He is God.  Let's quickly jump back a few verses here in Revelation 1 to see who is actually speaking here.

• Revelation 1:5-7 Part V 

    5 and from Jesus Christ, "the Faithful Witness," "the firstborn from the dead," and "the Ruler of the kings of the earth." To him who loves us and who set us free from our sins by means of his own blood 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen. 7 Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the tribes of earth will beat themselves in grief because of him. Yes, Amen.

    So Christ is the Faithful Witness and the firstborn from the dead. Got it, then He set us free from sin by His own blood. Got it, then verse 6 says "his God" yet older, more reliable and accurate translations just say "God." Then verse 7 says Christ is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him.

Example 1A. (The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures jw.org)

Example 1B.  (biblehub.com)

    Strong's Concordance says that pierce is used like pierced deeply. So tell me when Jehovah the Father was ever pierced deeply? Christ was pierced deeply in John 19:34 besides that I do not know of a verse to back up the Father being pierced. And these are not the only verses in Revelation that prove Christ deity is not just human but God,

• Revelation 1:13-15 Part I

    13 and in the midst of the lampstands someone like a son of man, clothed in a garment that reached down to the feet and wearing a golden sash around his chest. 14 Moreover, his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like fiery flame, 15 and his feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.

• Revelation 1:17-18 Part II

    17 When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. And he laid his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, 18 and the living one, and I became dead, but Look! I am living forever and ever, I have the keys of death and of the Grave.-"

• Revelation 2:8 Part III

    8 "And to the angel of the congregation of Smyrna write: These are the things that he says, 'the First and the Last,' who became dead and came to life again"

• Revelation 2:18 Part IV

    18 "To the angel of the congregation of Thyatira write" These are the things that the Son of God says, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine copper:"

    Back in chapter 1, John gives us a description of Christ in verses 13-15 then in verses 17-18 John falls at His feet, and Christ puts His hand on John and then calls Himself the First and the Last who was dead. Showing the First and the Last is not the Father. Chapter 2 verse 8 and verse 18 confirm that it is Christ John saw in chapter 1 verse 13-15. 

    Then the Book of Revelation ends with this message:

• Revelation 22:20

    20 "The one who bears witness of these things says, 'Yes, I am coming quickly.'" "Amen! Come, Lord Jesus."

    Scholars have found that in the New Testament, the writers of each book do this thing called "Bookends" or Inclusio, which is a literary device that repeats a certain message or topic that was at the beginning of the book, at the end too. At the beginning of Revelation, Christ was called the witness and then here it says Christ is coming quickly, and back in the beginning Christ said he was the One coming. So Christ is the First and the Last, Alpha and Omega.

"The LORD bless you

and keep you;

the LORD make His face shine upon you

and be gracious to you;

the LORD turn His face toward you 

and give you peace." ☦