“I am the Alpha & the Omega.”
~ unknown (Revelation 1:8)

 

First & foremost, it is crucial to realize that the book of Revelation as a whole is a highly misunderstood tome.  While it has been used by the Christian church to support the claim that Jesus will “come again” in the future, it was actually an anti-Roman revolutionary text that was speaking of its own contemporary time & place … And while many a Christian uses Revelation to show that Jesus is ultimately a deity of wrath & judgment, sincere students of the Bible know that it is not Jesus at all who utters such wicked words in that book (but actually a “fallen angel” who does so), and indeed that the “Jesus” mentioned therein repeatedly and quite specifically contradicts everything for which Jesus himself lived and everything he himself taught in the Gospels.

 

That having been said, this verse does offer a glimpse of Truth nonetheless; namely the Truth that Love – like God (and the Universe, and the Soul) – is far beyond every “beginning”, and thus that true, selfless Love indeed has no end.

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