Revelation 22:13 to Genesis 1:1

NT Text: Revelation 22:13

OT Source(s):

• Genesis 1:1 (ἡ ἀρχή echoing בְּרֵאשִׁית — "the Beginning" / "in the beginning")

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Echo

Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Redemptive-Historical Progression

Anchor Text: Gen 1:1 — In the Beginning

Significance: Christ's final self-declaration in Scripture — "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning (ἡ ἀρχή) and the End (τὸ τέλος)" — consummates the trajectory initiated by Genesis 1:1's בְּרֵאשִׁית. What began as a temporal marker ("in the beginning God created") has become a divine self-designation: Christ is the Beginning. But the consummation goes further: the ἀρχή now encompasses the τέλος. The one who stood behind creation's origin also stands at its eschatological goal. Three parallel pairs (Alpha/Omega, First/Last, Beginning/End) assert that Christ spans the entirety of reality from protology to eschatology. Genesis 1:1 opens the canon with "in the beginning"; Revelation 22:13 closes it with the person who is that Beginning — and also its End. As Kline argues, "the beginning" belongs to the upper register where Father, Son, and Spirit act in sovereign purpose; Christ's declaration here claims that upper-register identity as His own name.