there is one part of scripture where God actually identifies himself with letters of the alphabet and it happens at the very end of the Bible the last book and the last chapter and God says this this is he says This Book of Revelation I am the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last I often open up and seek to open up the real me of the original language of the Bible that you often cannot see in English the Bible of course is written in mostly in Hebrew and the the the second part in Greek but it’s rare for me to open up
the meaning of the original letters of the original language in which the Bible was written but today we’re going to do just that when we talk about letters in English we’re talking about the alphabet the English alphabet but the word alphabet is in English it originally it’s just a version an English version of a Greek word alphabet Alpha Beta they are the first letters of the Greek alphabet Alpha Beta alphabet but it goes deeper Alpha though a Greek letter really comes from the Semitic people Semite you hear the word
Semite what do you think of Jewish anti-semite so against but it’s not just the Jewish people people the Jewish people what it means is Semite means shemite son of Shem or descendant of Shem the son of Noah the Jewish people are semites the Arabs are semites the Assyrians were SE the ancient Assyrians are Semite the Babylonians were semites and the Phoenicians the Phoenicians were in the place which now we know as Lebanon probably the most famous Phoenician is someone you know you know this person well not popular her name
Isabel or Jezebel the Phoenicians being semites spoke a language very similar to Hebrew basically they’re all sister languages as they traded they were on the they were on the Mediterranean so they traded with other people the Greeks picked up their letters or the that the script so the letter Alpha is really a form of the Semitic Alf or the Hebrew Alf which is in your Bible the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet just switch around the vowels you know Alpha becomes Alf the next letter is bait bait and so it becomes beta by in the Greeks another
