Gregory Beale notes frequent allusions to Isaiah 41-48 in the opening chapter of Revelation. “Alpha and Omega” rings on the “first and last” of Isaiah 41:4.
John announces from the start that he’s prophesying about the fall of another Babylon, a third exodus.
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