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Hidden Pictures of Christ in the Old Testament - 2

Jan 05, 2022

For this picture, I'm going to go backwards in Genesis from my first post, as far as one can go. Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1.

Gen 1:1
(1)  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

To understand this picture, I remind you that in groups of seven, Jesus is always represented as FOUR, or the fourth object. This comes from the 7-branched lampstand (menorah) where He is the central lamp, or the servant lamp, which feeds oil to all the other branches. "I am the vine, you are the branches." - John 15:5

With that established, notice the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1:

Gen 1:1
(1)  בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃

 Seven words.

Raysheet bara Elohim et shamayim et eretz. (Read right to left). The middle word is et, or "and", which is composed of an an aleph and a tav.

"את"

In the book of Revelation, we have Jesus naming Himself:

Rev 1:8
(8)  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

The Alpha and Omega is greek, naturally, but evidence points to this book being written first in Hebrew. Regardless of this, Jesus would not have described Himself in Greek - but in His language - Hebrew. "I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending."

Therefore, in Genesis 1, our first group of seven, we have Jesus in the center of the seven: the aleph and the tav. He is the center - sometimes hiding in plain sight.

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