Revelation 1:7-8

“Look, He is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him”;
    and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of Him.” So shall it be! Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”  - Rev 1:7-8 

When Jesus comes He will be seen. The interjection of “Look” or “Behold” depending on the version you read is used 25 times in Revelation. It is a call for us to take note and pay attention to what follows because it is important. The presence of God is coming and every eye, dead or living, will see Him. The whole earth will see Him come in His full power, not incognito as before.

When Jesus comes there will be sorrow. In that day many in Israel will see and understand that they (we) crucified their Messiah. Everyone on earth will be in regret as they realize that they didn’t recognize the living God among them, that their hearts are evil, and they could have lived with Jesus among them. It is a time of confirmation is it not, of “Oh, He is real!” For the unbeliever will now know and the doubting believer (if there is such a thing) can have that doubt erased. Yet Revelation will tell us later that many will mourn in repentance and salvation and others will mourn in remorse and unfortunately seek death, not deliverance.

When Jesus comes it will be in strength. This is one of only two times that God speaks directly in this book. There are three titles applied to God here.

1. “The Alpha and the Omega.”  These are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.  He is the “A to Z”.  He is the Word.  This is expanded at the end of Revelation in chapter 22:13 and is applied directly to Jesus.  God is the truth, all of it, there is not other truth.
2. “Who is, and who was, and who is to come.”  There was never a time when God was not.  As Genesis 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning God”.  There will never be a time when He is not.  God is and ever shall be – always.  This has been said by John in verse 4 as a part of the Greeting upon who this message is from.  God is the goal of all human history. 
3. “The Almighty.”  This is said 10 times in the New Testament, nine of which are in Revelation.  God has absolute control and power.  He is in control of this world and the spiritual world.  His power is undefinable.  He is not as we are, in process of becoming, He is and ever shall be.

Jesus is here today in the presence of the Spirit.  For the one who looks, He can be seen.  When we realize that we can live, or could have lived all our days filled and in content with His Spirit with us, it is hard not to be in some regret.  And when we see those who are hard-hearted, choosing death we are broken-hearted.  There is sorrow.  But when we are in fellowship with the Spirit there is strength and life.  There should be much joy and celebrating in knowing that our God, the One who loves you in all power forever, will not change.  He will always love you and nothing can take you from His hand!