April 26, 2004
I had the following vision which I have seen many times before. I see the hind legs of a frog. Frogs are used in laboratory experiments in a university (universe.) The shape of the legs always changes into an omega symbol. Omega goes to closure, Leo, lion, crown, crown chakra, Project Omega. Frogs croak.
Omega, Lyre, Hermes, Trickster
Green and Gold, Alchemy
Omega Nebula NASA
M17
Reality is a lab experiment that is reaching Omega Point.
The labarum or chi-rho symbol with alpha and omega
The coat of arms of the Anglican diocese of Trinidad
"Revelation 1:11 in the King James Version says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." This is when the alphabet only went to 'O' or Omega. It now ends with Z. Zero Point
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Revelation 22:13 (4:4) (New International Version)
Alpha and Omega is an appellation of God in the book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13). Its meaning is found in the fact that Alpha and Omega are respectively the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. This would be similar to referring to someone in English as "the A to Z". Thus, twice when the title appears it is further clarified with the additional title "the Beginning and the End" (21:6, 22:13).
Revelation 1: 11 in the King James Version says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." This verse clearly proves an undisputed reference to Jesus as the 'Alpha and Omega'. However, this additional occurrence of this phrase does not receive support from some of the oldest Greek manuscripts, including the Alexandrine, Sinaitic, and Codex Ephraemi rescriptus. It is, therefore, believed to be spurious like the Comma Johanneum and thus is omitted in many modern translations.
Though many commentators and dictionaries apply this title both to God and to Christ such need not be the case. BarnesŐ Notes on the New Testament (1974) observes: "It cannot be absolutely certain that the writer meant to refer to the Lord Jesus specifically here . . . There is no real incongruity in supposing, also, that the writer here meant to refer to God as such." However, most Christian denominations teach that it does apply to Jesus and God.
Therefore the letters Alpha and Omega in juxtaposition are often used as a Christian visual symbol.
This symbol was suggested by the Apocalypse, where many believe that Christ, as well as the Father, is "the First and the Last" (ii, 8); "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (cf., xxii, 13; i, 8). Clement of Alexandria speaks of the Word as "the Alpha and the Omega of Whom alone the end becomes beginning, and ends again at the original beginning without any break" (Strom., IV, 25).
Tertullian also alludes to Christ as the Alpha and Omega, and from Prudentius (Cathemer., ix, 10) we learn that in the fourth century the interpretation of the apocalyptic letters was still the same: "Alpha et Omega cognominatus, ipse fons et clausula, Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, quaeque post futura sunt." It was, however, in the monuments of early Christianity that the symbolic Alpha and Omega had their greatest vogue. This phrase is interpreted by many Christians to mean that Jesus existed from the beginning of time (as the second person of the Trinity), and will exist eternally.
Emet, literally 'truth', one of the names of God in Judaism, has been interpreted as consisting of the first, middle and final letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
For an excellent introduction and explanation of the possible original meaning and use of the expression in Aramaic, its comprehension in Judaism and the implications of its symbolism; see Alpha and Omega by Kaufman Kohler in the Jewish Encyclopedia, article 188.