Dear John,

 After reading your article on the Aleph & Tau in the Old Testament, I was wondering if you knew about the Aleph & Tau in Zechariah 12:10 and also in Genesis 1:1, untranslated. If you look in an Interlinear you will see it there, untranslated. I discovered this from an article by Chuck Missler. You find it on his website. It is the first article called ' The Hyperetai-The Bible in Shorthand '

 http://www.khouse.org/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/search?pr=khouse&query=Alpha+Omega&submit=Go

God bless, Tom Heinitz 
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Thanks, Tom!
John

The First and The Last

In numerous places in both the Old and New Testaments, God refers to Himself as "the First and the Last."¹⁵ This is also explicit in the New Testament identifiers, "Alpha and Omega," the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.¹⁶ (In several of these references, they are unquestionably references to Jesus Christ Himself.¹⁷)

In the Old Testament, we frequently encounter the letters aleph, and the tau, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. When used with a connector-bar, a maqqeph, the two-letter prefix, at-,is used as a grammatical element to indicate a direct object. There are also instances, however, where aleph tau is used as a pronoun to indicate the second person masculine singular; a hypocatastasis ("putting down underneath"), a kind of grammatical pun: "a hidden declarative implied metaphor expressing a superlative degree of resemblance."¹⁸ For example, in Zechariah 12 we find the prophecy of the Messiah's climactic appearance to Israel:

...and they shall look upon me [aleph tau] whom they have pierced... Zechariah 12:10

The untranslated aleph tau could be translated as follows:

"... and they shall look upon me, the aleph and the tau, whom they have pierced."

...in which the aleph and the tau, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, are, thus, equivalent to the alpha and the omega in the Greek.

We also find the same untranslated letters in Genesis 1:

In the beginning God [aleph tau] created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

This Aleph and Tau, that created the heavens and the earth, is the same Aleph and Tau whom they pierced on the wooden cross erected in Judea almost 2,000 years ago.¹⁹ And this Ultimate Nomina Sacrum is scheduled to return when He is least expected.

What About Us?

Have you ever noticed that a professional secretary never enters her boss's office without her note pad? She never enters his presence without being prepared to receive an assignment.

Do you approach the Throne Room of the Universe without a note pad nearby to jot down your own assignments or the insights you might receive? Do you enter His presence without an expectation of receiving an assignment or insight?

Pray about it. Discuss it with the King Himself.

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