THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA

Rev. Deborah Burnett

The Beginning of the Beginning, Matthew chapter one tells us part of the story. Mary the betrothed of Joseph, gave birth to Jesus, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit. In all actuality this is the account of the origin of Jesus in the Flesh. Jesus the Christ began not in time, but he is and he was in Eternity. Revelation 1:8 says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending.” Scripture tells us in the book of John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was anything made.” We are able to read in the scriptures that God thru Jesus Christ made all creation; the anointed one and his anointing. During creation time was created, and the seen realm was manifested. Colossians chapter 1:15

“ Who (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature.” vs. 16, “ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in the earth, visible and invisible.” 

When Mary was found with child, time also became pregnant. Mankind has been enlightened through the Word of God, for we know that this visible or seen realm as we understand it here on the planet Earth shall one day have an ending. The Earth will not be totally destroyed. Psalm 104:5, “Who laid the foundations of the Earth, that it shall not be removed forever.” God will make (remake) a new Heaven and a new Earth and will dwell with his children for all Eternity, (Revelation 21:1). The Bible describes the end times, or that “Day” as the second coming of Jesus Christ, and the finality of our whole world system. With great expectation the saints of God should look forward to this magnificent event. But for those who have rejected the Gift of Life, Jesus himself, and what He accomplished at Calvary, this will be a period of serious Judgment. In Matthew 24:7, Jesus told his disciples  that, “nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilence, and earthquakes in various places.” Verse 8 of the same chapter in the NIV translation reads "these are the beginning of Birth pains.”  Christendom has been looking for the coming of Jesus Christ return for many centuries. Every generation since the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord, thought they could be the ones who would witness his valiant return. Time has been expectant, enceinte, impregnated, in a family way or pregnant since His first entrance in to it, at the manger in Bethlehem of Judea. The Bible is a book of prophecies that have been manifested in periods of time and events accurately depicted in Holy Scriptures. These set stages have been proclaimed in Word since the origin of Time. A woman that is with child also has set stages in her pregnancy; these are called Trimesters, or (3 time periods). The first 2 stages of time, the coming child’s growth and development can only be seen by the increased size of the mother’s midsection. It is in the third trimester that labor will begin.

The labor pains of Time have begun in our Generation! Just as with an expectant mother, contractions have started. The sac of fluid (the water) is separating from the placenta and it is now a matter of hours before the King of Kings and Lord of Lords breaks thru the Heavens and cracks the eastern sky. Perhaps not hours as man knows them, but hours according to Our God’s Timetable. Hours before Time makes way for Eternity, and those two shall also become one! The signs are all manifesting, Church, to read the headlines of the national newspapers is as reading the lines in the written Word of God. We need to be ready, Jesus told us to watch soberly, expecting. Let us lift our heads and humble our hearts, and submit our lives in obedience to his Righteous Plan for Jesus is truly the Alpha and the Omega.

 There is a shifting taking place in the Spiritual realm. Let us walk closer to God then we ever have before, for his Eternal, his eternity, is behind the Veil of The Holy of Holies. Remember it is always darkest before the Dawn. He shall be your strength and buckler. Time was born out of Eternity, now Eternity will soon breakthrough into the seen realm, the natural realm. Let the Bride be prepared.