Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Search in Tempe, Arizona,
and today we're going to go over Revelation 22.13 in Greek.
The last couple of lessons have been pretty technical, so this is just a really easy memory
verse for you.
Revelation 22.13 says, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the
last.
Okay?
So let's look at this in Greek.
So let's look at this word by word.
This is really familiar to you by now.
Ego, eimi, I am, to alpha, keto, omega, alright?
Now these are two uppercase letters here, of course the first and last letters of the
Greek alphabet, alpha, omega, alright?
Now notice that they both are preceded by the word the, and it's in the singular neuter
form, to.
So when we see letters of the alphabet like alpha and omega, they are treated as a neuter
word.
So we have, ego, eimi, to alpha, keto, omega, argi, means beginning, you should remember
that from John 1-1, ke, telos, telos is a new word for you, end, alright?
So we've got beginning and end.
Notice that in the Greek it doesn't use the word the, because the word the is just used
differently in Greek as it is in English.
There are often going to be times in Greek where the is used, where we would not use
it in English and vice versa, it's just a difference in language, not a change in the
meaning whatsoever.
Ego, eimi, to alpha, keto, omega, argi, ke, telos, oprotos, the first, oprotos, ke, oescatos.
And the o here is the word the in the masculine singular.
This is the neuter singular of the word the.
Both are in nominative case, these are predicate nominatives because they follow the state
of being verb.
You have ego, eimi, to alpha, keto, omega, argi, ke, telos, oprotos, ke, oescatos.
Now protos should be pretty easy for you to remember because you probably know the English
word prototype, there are English words that are derived from this Greek word protos which
means first, okay?
And then the word eschatos, eschatos is where we get our word eschatology, when people talk
about end times Bible prophecy, they talk about eschatology, eschatology, the ology
ending means the study of.
So eschatology is the study of last things, eschatos means last, eschatos is last, so
eschatology is the study of final things or last things, alright?
That's why it's used in regard to end times Bible prophecy, the last things, okay, the
end times.
So again, this is a good verse to memorize, it's easy, give you a break on this lesson,
but I hope that you've been memorizing the Bible verses as you've gone, I hope that you're
writing them down, these are the ways that you're going to learn, writing out the Bible
verses, memorizing them in any charts or anything that I draw, write them out, memorize them,
learn them, it's a pretty easy verse but you do well to memorize it.