In the beginning: That beginning may have been very, very long ago. The Bible says that God is “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2). John introduced his Gospel with the words: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1). We cannot fathom that there was no beginning to God’s existence – and neither can we know when He performed His first Creative Act. God: The Hebrew Word for God is “Elohim” .
That term tells us much in itself. And in this, its first appearance in the Bible, it has a unique feature not seen elsewhere. “ELOHIM” here, is followed by two very significant Hebrew letters. They are “Aleph” and “Tav”, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
But what significance does this “Aleph-Tav” association have to do with God? Is it not perhaps the Word, “Who was with God and who was God”? We read about Him in Revelation 19:13: “ … and His name is called The Word of God.” Then this same “Word” tells us in Revelation 1:8,11, and again in 22:13: “I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” The Hebrew NT reads “the Aleph and Tav” for the koine Greek “Alpha and Omega”
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