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The Lord God says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega.[a] I am the one who is, who always was, and who is coming. I am the All-Powerful.”

I am John, your fellow believer. We are together in Jesus, and we share these things: suffering, the kingdom, and patient endurance. I was on the island of Patmos[b] because I was faithful to God’s message and to the truth of Jesus. 10 On the Lord’s Day, the Spirit took control of me. I heard a loud voice behind me that sounded like a trumpet.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 1:8 Alpha … Omega The first and last letters in the Greek alphabet, meaning the beginning and the end.
  2. Revelation 1:9 Patmos A small island in the Aegean Sea, near the coast of modern Turkey.

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