'First and the Last' in the Bible

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see [in this revelation], and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. And He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last [absolute Deity, the Son of God],

“And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Smyrna write:“These are the words of the First and the Last [absolute Deity, the Son of God] who died and came to life [again]:

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End [the Eternal One].”