<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Jesus: God of the Old Testament</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The First and the Last – (Part 1)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>in Genesis 1:1 and Zechariah 12:10</strong></p>

Most Christians read their Bibles in translation and miss what God has embedded in the original text as a testimony to His Son. The Aleph and the Tav—first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet—stand untranslated in the very first verse of Scripture. They are not a grammatical accident or a scribal flourish. They are a divine marker, a signature that cannot be erased or explained away. 

In Genesis 1:1, after the plural name for God, <em>Elohim</em>, the Hebrew text inserts these two letters: **Aleph** and **Tav**. They do not form a word, and so English Bibles omit them. But the Spirit does not waste letters. The Aleph and Tav are the beginning and end—just as Jesus declares of Himself in Revelation: 

> “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.” (Revelation 1:8)

Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. If John had written in Hebrew, he would have recorded, “I am the Aleph and the Tav.” This is not a poetic flourish. It is a claim to absolute divinity and finality. Jesus is not merely a messenger—He is the Creator Himself, the One present before the foundation of the world. He is the Word made flesh, the totality of God’s self-expression, the subject and substance of all Scripture. Every letter, every detail, points to Him. To miss this is to miss the unity and purpose of the entire biblical record.

## The Aleph and Tav in Salvation History

But God does not stop at creation. The Aleph and Tav appear again, hidden in plain sight, in one of the most decisive prophecies of Israel’s future: Zechariah 12:10.

> “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer upon the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem. And they will look upon ME <em><Aleph Tav></em> WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, and mourn for Him as for an only son. They will grieve for Him bitterly as for a firstborn son who has died.”

Here, the untranslated Aleph and Tav stand between “Me” and “whom they have pierced.” God Himself is speaking. He identifies as the One pierced—yet the text shifts from “Me” to “Him,” exposing the plurality within the Godhead, the very foundation of Trinitarian doctrine. This is not a marginal issue. The God of Israel is both the One speaking and the One pierced. The Messiah is both God and Man. The Aleph and Tav are not just letters—they are the person of Christ, the fullness of deity dwelling bodily.

The context is crucial. God foretells that Israel will be regathered in unbelief—a secular nation, surrounded by hostile nations, facing annihilation. This is not accidental; it is the stage God Himself sets. He allows estrangement and suffering, not as an end, but as the context for His ultimate act of revelation and reconciliation. In the midst of crisis, God pours out a spirit of grace and supplication. The people look upon the One they pierced, and the result is not mere regret, but national repentance and salvation. Their mourning is not a negative outcome—it is the very tool God uses to reconcile His people to Himself. This is the pattern: God uses even unbelief and dispersion as the soil for His redemptive work.

## The Loss If We Miss This

If we fail to see Jesus as the Aleph and Tav—the Creator, the Pierced One, the unifying center of all Scripture—we lose more than a theological detail. We lose the very foundation of justification and inheritance. If Jesus is not the eternal God revealed from Genesis to Revelation, then the unity of the covenant collapses. The promise is severed from its fulfillment. The assurance of sonship and the certainty of salvation are reduced to shadows and speculation. The entire cause-effect chain of redemptive history—God’s orchestration of Israel’s estrangement, their regathering, their national repentance, and ultimate reconciliation—becomes incoherent. The finished work is no longer finished; the inheritance is no longer secure.

## The Testimony of Scripture: No Escape

The testimony is inescapable. In Genesis 1:1, He is God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. In Zechariah 12:10, He is the Son of David, the One pierced by His own people, yet the very God who saves. In Revelation, He is the Alpha and Omega, the One who brings all things to completion. The Aleph and Tav are not a curiosity—they are the key to understanding the person and work of Christ. He is the beginning and the end, and every moment in between. To deny this is to sever the root of the gospel and to empty the Scriptures of their power.

Let the reader understand: the God of the Old Testament is not a distant shadow, but Jesus Himself—Creator, Redeemer, and Consummator. This is not a secondary matter. It is the foundation upon which all assurance, all inheritance, and all sonship rest. Anything less is a denial of the finished work and a forfeiture of the promise.

**So much revelation in just two verses.** The Aleph and Tav—hidden in the text, revealed in Christ—declare that the story is His from beginning to end. And He will have the last word.