Note: Every verse in the Bible has three applications; historical context, doctrinal import, and spiritual application. Read the verse literally where it can be taken literally, and to whom it is specifically written, and at what time for doctrinal import. All verses can be spiritually or practically applied to the believer of any age with an understanding that most verses do not fit this age doctrinally. Prophetic verses may also have a double application with history repeating itself. Study the Bible horizontally as per 1 Corinthians 2:13. Lexicons and dictionaries are not inspired or inerrant.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Notice that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Almighty, a reference to God in Genesis 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 43:14; 48:3; 49:25; Exodus 6:3; Numbers 24:4,16 and 47 other references throughout the Bible. Note that the Jews knew that Jesus claimed to be God in John 5:18; John 8:56,58 in a reference to Exodus 3:14.
