Daily Meditation: Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Alpha and omega - living letters of creation

06/12/2024

The venerable being who addresses St John in Revelation declares, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.’ Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, the language in which the New Testament was written. In Hebrew, which was the language Jesus spoke, the first and last letters of the alphabet are aleph and tav. Alpha and omega, or aleph and tav… To speak of these two letters is to speak of the whole alphabet, for the first cannot be isolated from the last. An alphabet is a whole formed of a number of elements – the letters – and the order in which the letters follow each other is not random. They are the analogical representation of the ‘letters’ that exist in creation. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet represent the elements, forces, virtues, qualities, spirits and powers, which God combined in order to create the universe. By means of these living letters, God formed words and sentences, and He continues to form words and sentences. This is how the world was created and continues to be created.