After some contemplation of last Sundays Mass Readings I
felt the Holy Spirit guiding me to talk about the Divinity of Jesus. This feeling came to me when I read the
Scripture readings and fell on the passage of John describing the voice that
said to him: “Behold, I am coming soon. I bring with me recompense I will give
to each according to his deeds. I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning ant the end.”
One sentence later we find out that Jesus is the one
speaking here but I’ve already heard from those who do not believe Jesus to be
God that the one speaking was God the Father and that Jesus began speaking
later. Context is pretty plain that it
is indeed Jesus speaking about being the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the
last but since this verse isn’t convincing for some, I thought I’d bring out
some other verses that are a little clearer on this.
First, we know with certainty that the Lord God is the first
and the last because the Old Testament explains this explicitly. Isaiah 44, verse 6 tells us: “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.”
So, does Jesus call himself the first and the last to
describe himself as God? In fact, He
does. In the Book of Revelation the
Apostle John writes: “When I saw him, I
fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said:
“Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was
dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death
and Hades.”
Do you see it? God is
the First and the Last and here the one calling Himself the ‘First and the
Last’ also says in the same breath that he once was dead but now is alive for
ever and ever. The only one that can
claim this title is God, and yet Jesus is also the only one who can say that he
once was dead but is alive once again.
Therefore since Jesus describes Himself by a title that only God can
have tells us that Jesus, right here in Scripture, declares Himself to be God.
God Bless
Nathan
Nathan
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