Was Dead, and Alive

Revelation 1:17–18

Was Dead, and Alive

The First and the Last, defined by a grave

— The Standing Stone —

Behind “LORD” in your Bible lies a hidden name — in the Hebrew it is Yahuah Psalm 83:18; Yahuah is the Father Isaiah 63:16; Yahuah is the only God, beside Him there is no other Isaiah 45:5; therefore Yahuah the Father is the only true God, leaving no room for a second or third person 1 Corinthians 8:6.

Reference Piece

The Titles He Was Given

A title of Yahuah on the Son is worn by gift — a shared title was never a shared identity

Foundation: The Titles He Was Given →

1 — The Claim

The risen Yahushua calls himself “the first and the last” — the title Yahuah takes for Himself in Isaiah. Since the same words name Yahuah there, the argument runs, the One who speaks them here must be Yahuah.

2 — Read the Next Clause

He does not stop at the title. He defines it on the spot:

Revelation 1:17–18

Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore…

The One wearing the title here died — and that is the one thing Yahuah cannot do. On Yahuah’s lips “first and last” is fenced by “beside me there is no God” Isaiah 44:6: a God who never began and cannot end. Here the very next breath anchors it to a grave. So the title means what the text says it means: the first to rise from the dead and die no more, “the first begotten of the dead” Revelation 1:5, the Last Adam who succeeded where the first fell 1 Corinthians 15:45. Same words as Isaiah; the opposite anchor.

Conclusion

The Verdict

The title that names a God who cannot die is defined, in the same breath, by a death. That marks the Son off from the Father — it does not make him the Father.