The Almighty of Revelation 1:8
⚪ Jesus is the Almighty of Revelation 1:8
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1:8. I am THE Alpha ana l AM ALSO THE Omega - [...]
The Beginning and the Ending. — [...] Which Is, and which was, and which la to come, the Almighty.— "It Is since His resurrection that the message has gone forth — 'All power in Heaven and in earth is given unto Me.' (Matt 28:18.) Consequently it is only since then that He could be called the Almighty." — Z.'93-115; Rev. 1:4; 16:6-7. Source : 🇺🇸 The Finished Mystery, page 15 + Cover |
The Emphatic Diaglott is a New Testament whose organization of Jehovah's Witnesses has acquired the sole right of publications. (source : Jehovahs Witnesses Proclaimers of Gods Kingdom, page 606
If we look in the Alphabetical appendix of this "Diaglott", we find that the word "Almighty" is attributed to Jesus in Revelation 1:8.
⚫ Jesus is not the Almighty of Revelation 1:8
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Thus Revelation 1:8, RS, says : "'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God [AT; "Jehovah God," NW], who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." Although the preceding verse speaks of Christ Jesus, it is clear that in verse 8 the application of the title is to the "Almighty" God. In this regard Albert Barnes in Barnes' Notes on the New Testament observes : "It cannot be absolutely certain that the writer meant to refer to the Lord Jesus specifically here . There is no real incongruity in supposing, also, that the writer here meant to refer to God as such."
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This One was not Jehovah God, but was "existing in the form of God". How so? He was a spirit person, just as "God is a spirit"; he was a mighty one, although not almighty as Jehovah God is; [...] In the Greek Bible text the Word is Logos ; hence he may be called "the Word or Logos". Being a mighty one and holding this high official capacity as Logos and being before all other creatures, he was a God, but not the Almighty God, who is Jehovah.
Source : 🇫🇷 Let God Be- True (edition (1946), page 34, page 35 + Cover |
Notice that the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses clearly teaches polytheism. It therefore falls under the judgment of Exodus 20: 3. (see also Deuteronomy 32:39).