beginning of the creation

Continued from Part 17 Revelation 1:17 and 2:8 do not contain the words the Alpha and the Omega.  In these verses the author of Revelation uses protos (“first”) and eschatos (“last”) which imply the same thought as the phrase the Alpha and the Omega. Revelation 1:17 reads:  “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.  But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the first and the last.’”  Revelation 2:8 reads:  “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words