50 Days of Wisdom

As the veil lifts in the Book of Revelation, we see Jesus as the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. But a fourth title is also provided by our Lord in chapter one, verse 8: "I am the Alpha and the Omega." Alpha is the first letter in the 24-letter Greek alphabet, and Omega is the last. So what does it mean to say He is the first and the last letter? Well, out of a total of 24 letters, all words can be formed. Therefore, all truth can be communicated. All truth can be conveyed. And all wisdom can be articulated. To say that He is the Alpha and the Omega is to speak of His perfect knowledge, His omniscience. We saw something of His omnipotence in the fact that He is the ruler of all of the kings of the earth, and now we see His omniscience. He is the source of all knowledge, all truth, and all wisdom. This will be apparent the next time He comes. People mocked His knowledge the first time. They said, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth? He's a Galilean, an uneducated man. He hasn't been to the right schools." They scorned His teaching and His knowledge and rejected Him. But the next time He comes, His perfect, consummate, vast, and impenetrable knowledge will be on display, and He will perfectly fulfill everything He ever said He would do. Every judgment, every promise—He will fulfill. Every truth He ever articulated will come into clarity at the end. Number five, He is also described in verse 8 as the one "who is and who was, and who is to come." What is this? His eternality. Theologians call it His aseity. It's His self-existence. He always was. His transcendent, eternal existence and presence. He is not defined or confined by time or space. He is not influenced by any created reality or historical event; there are no external circumstances that shape Him or shape His thoughts. He is the eternal, self-existent, transcendent, and completely uninfluenced one, with control over space, time, energy, matter, and eternity as well. He is above and beyond. He is outside and away from all that He has ever made. We are starting to see that this child in the manger is something more when unveiled. He is the one who always speaks the truth. He is God's heir. He is the ruler over every ruler in the world. He is the source of all truth, everything that is knowable. And He is eternal, above and beyond all that is temporal and physical. Furthermore, if that's not enough, verse 8 ends with the fact that "He is the Almighty." And now you have a full statement in one word about His omnipotence. He has all power. In other words, there is no power that He doesn't possess. There is no power beyond His power. He is the Almighty. He is the most powerful one. And because He possesses all power, nothing can hinder Him from doing what He wills and from fulfilling what He promises to do. He is the Almighty. And that's an expression, obviously, of His deity, because God, in the Old Testament, is called the Almighty. Listen, false gods come and go. False gods are a figment of human and demonic imagination. False gods pass off the scene all the time. People bow down to false gods, but false gods don't give life or take it. False gods are just that: false gods. They're made out of wood; they don't exist. Demons may impersonate them and wield their power, but Christ alone has the power to control life and death. This is the unveiled Christ. Repent and believe! GTY.org (80-418) – Christmas Future

Today's Wisdom

Day: 1026

September 11, 2026

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