He is the First and the Last, the beginning and the ending,
The portion of the saints
Christ is
He is the first both in the old creation, the universe, and in the new creation, the church.
The Lord [264] told the suffering church in Smyrna that He is the First and the Last. This indicates that no matter how great were the sufferings through which He passed, those sufferings could not terminate or damage Him.
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