<p>22:13 <em>I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end</em>- The Lord Jesus is appropriating to Himself the titles of His Father, as used in Is. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12. Those statements that God is &quot;the first and with the last&quot; are all in the context of assuring a doubting Judah that really, God has saved them. We sense from the encouragement to John to really record all this, and the repeated reminders that these words are true and faithful, that the Lord's people will struggle to grasp the wonderful truth of all this. Right through the process, from our foreknowledge at the beginning to the &quot;last things&quot; of our final salvation- He will have been in the process.</p>