I am Alpha and Omega or in Hebrew Aleph and Tav

In the scriptures in several places, Jesus Christ describes himself as Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Most people know that Alpha and Omega are the first and last characters in the Greek alphabet. If we substitute the Greek letters with their Hebrew counterparts it would look and go like this:

 

I am Aleph, א, and Tav, ת, the beginning and the end.

 

The Aleph, א, is the first character in the Hebrew alphabet and represents God, the One, the First, and the beginning.

 

The Tav, ת, is the last character in the Hebrew alphabet and represents a sacred enclosure or place, the most important of which is the Holy of Holies or the temple, which represent the presence of the Lord.

 

The phrase the beginning and the end, is called a merism. From Wikipedia, it states that a merism is a figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing. Merisms are conspicuous features of Biblical poetry. For example, in Genesis 1:1, when God creates the heavens and the earth, the two parts combine to indicate that God created the whole universe. Similarly, in Psalm 139, the psalmist declares that God knows my downsitting and mine uprising; indicating that God knows all that he does.

 

So the phrase the beginning and the end, includes all that God has done in the beginning and everything in between and finally until the end.

 

In Hebrew, we get additional insight, that Christ left God the Father, the One or Aleph, and in the end, He returned to the presence of the Father in the temple or Tav or the celestial kingdom. Hence, this merism, symbolically represents the entire Plan of Salvation that Christ made possible and paved the way, via His atonement, for all of us. We all leave the Father and if we do all the things in between, like live by faith, repent, be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost and endure to the end, we will return to the Holy of Holies or presence of the Father and the Son.