I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. – Revelation 22:13

Today’s Scripture Reading (May 11, 2018): Revelation 22

God. The concept of this Creator is hard to get our minds around. We can describe him in many ways. He is the glue that holds creation together, and we seem to have a need for that. He is the prime mover; the one who went first. As much as we might rail against the Big Bang, I am convinced that the theory is the friend of all who believe in a God. The Big Bang Theory (not the T.V. show) seems to require that something goes first. There has to be a reason for why the cosmic filament explodes bringing with it all that has been created. And there has to be something into which this creation will collapse at the end of time. The Big Bang Theory would seem to echo the biblical belief. God went first, and when everything is gone, God still remains.

Can we argue against such a belief? Of course. But I am not sure what that changes. We still live in this temporal space that seems to require a first mover and the reality of what remains after all has collapsed. For me, the best explanation of this is some sort of being, the one to whom we refer to as God. God exists outside of time. He is not temporal, where we are. In the very beginning when all that existed of this universe was found in a filament of energy, God was there. At the end of time when our arguments and voices and presence has ceased, God will still be there. Our arguments only exist and have any meaning inside of this space that we occupy. Our words only make sense in this temporal climate. But even something as secular as the Big Bang Theory argues that this is not all of what is necessary for our existence. Something must exist outside of the Big Bang.

This is the affirmation that Jesus gives to John in Revelation’s closing remarks. Here Jesus declares his divinity. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Before the Big Bang, Jesus was. He existed before this temporal pocket was created. And after all has collapsed, after our arguments have long since been defeated, he will continue to exist.

He is the first mover that we seem to need to make any of our theories of creation to work, and he is the collector that will still exist after everything has ended. From his own lips, spoken to the ear of John, Jesus admits his own divinity. He is God. He always was, and he always will be.  

Tomorrow’s Scripture Reading: Genesis 1