I AM bible study

Here is a bible study where God will say some form of I AM. These statements reveal the nature and character of God. Most of this is of Jesus but the first I AM statement is God the Father to Moses in Exodus 3, when He was preparing to send Moses to the Israelites and then the Pharaoh, for Moses was God’s chosen one to lead the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt

(Exodus 3:11)  But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

 

(Exodus 3:12)  He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

 

(Exodus 3:13)  Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"

 

(Exodus 3:14)  God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

 

(Exodus 3:15)  God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

 

(Exodus 3:16)  Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

 

(Exodus 3:17)  and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'

 

In chapter 6 God spoke this I am to Moses, further explaining His purpose for Moses, to release Israel from Egypt

(Exodus 6:2)  God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD.

 

(Exodus 6:3)  I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

 

(Exodus 6:4)  I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

 

(Exodus 6:5)  Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

 

(Exodus 6:6)  Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

 

(Exodus 6:7)  I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

 

(Exodus 6:8)  I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"

 

Here is another I AM statement in Isaiah

(Isaiah 45:5)  I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,

 

Here is an I AM statement in Malachi (KJV this time)

(Malachi 3:6)  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

 

Jesus I am statements in John

The first of all these I am statements is “I am the bread of life” as He indeed was was. He goes into detail about this in a discussion with the Jews in John 6. This was after Jesus fed the 5000 and many of whom He is speaking to in this passage had eaten in that miracle provision.

(John 6:26)  Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

 

(John 6:27)  Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."

 

(John 6:28)  Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?"

 

(John 6:29)  Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

 

(John 6:30)  So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

 

(John 6:31)  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

 

(John 6:32)  Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

 

(John 6:33)  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

 

(John 6:34)  They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always."

 

(John 6:35)  Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

 

(John 6:36)  But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

 

(John 6:37)  All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

 

(John 6:38)  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

 

(John 6:39)  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

 

(John 6:40)  For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

 

(John 6:41)  So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

 

(John 6:42)  They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

 

(John 6:43)  Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves.

 

(John 6:44)  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

 

(John 6:45)  It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me--

 

(John 6:46)  not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

 

(John 6:47)  Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

 

(John 6:48)  I am the bread of life.

 

(John 6:49)  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

 

(John 6:50)  This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

 

(John 6:51)  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

 

(John 6:52)  The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

 

(John 6:53)  So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

 

(John 6:54)  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

 

(John 6:55)  For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

 

(John 6:56)  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

 

(John 6:57)  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

 

(John 6:58)  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

 

This is a very powerful statement, but it is true. People had a difficult time with His statements, finding especially these ones hard to hear, but Peter knew that these statements were the words of eternal life. The next I AM that Jesus spoke is I am the light of the world. This is in both John 8 and 9, under different circumstances.

He initially spoke this to the Jews after interacting with the woman who was caught in adultery, whom they wanted to stone, but then Jesus told her to not sin any more and let her go

(John 8:12)  Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

 

(John 8:13)  So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."

 

(John 8:14)  Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

 

(John 8:15)  You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

 

(John 8:16)  Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

 

(John 8:17)  In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

 

(John 8:18)  I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me."

 

(John 8:19)  They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

 

(John 8:20)  These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

 

It also is used in the beginning of John 9, when the blind man’s sight was miraculously restored

(John 9:1)  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

 

(John 9:2)  And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

 

(John 9:3)  Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

 

(John 9:4)  We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

 

(John 9:5)  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

 

(John 9:6)  Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud

 

(John 9:7)  and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

 

At the end of Chapter 8, Jesus said before Abraham was, I am, which proves that Jesus is God beyond any shadow of doubt, for no mortal man could have been around since before Abraham.

(John 8:48)  The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

 

(John 8:49)  Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

 

(John 8:50)  Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.

 

(John 8:51)  Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

 

(John 8:52)  The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

 

(John 8:53)  Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"

 

(John 8:54)  Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.'

 

(John 8:55)  But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

 

(John 8:56)  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."

 

(John 8:57)  So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

 

(John 8:58)  Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

 

(John 8:59)  So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

 

The Jews could not accept Jesus words and tried to stone Him for speaking them, for to the Jews those words were blasphemy. He also said all those who keep His words shall not taste death (the second death in the lake of fire at least).

John chapter 10 has two of the “I AM” s I am the door, and I am the good shepherd, in a very powerful message, too. Later He said that He and His Father are one, which provoked the Jews, who considered that blasphemy to stone Him, then He said I am in my Father. The entire chapter is being included in this study, because it has a powerful message to tell:

(John 10:1)  "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

 

(John 10:2)  But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

 

(John 10:3)  To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

 

(John 10:4)  When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

 

(John 10:5)  A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

 

(John 10:6)  This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

 

(John 10:7)  So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

 

(John 10:8)  All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

 

(John 10:9)  I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

 

(John 10:10)  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

 

(John 10:11)  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:12)  He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

 

(John 10:13)  He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

 

(John 10:14)  I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

 

(John 10:15)  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:16)  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

 

(John 10:17)  For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

 

(John 10:18)  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."

 

(John 10:19)  There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.

 

(John 10:20)  Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"

 

(John 10:21)  Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

 

(John 10:22)  At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,

 

(John 10:23)  and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.

 

(John 10:24)  So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

 

(John 10:25)  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,

 

(John 10:26)  but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.

 

(John 10:27)  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

 

(John 10:28)  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

 

(John 10:29)  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

 

(John 10:30)  I and the Father are one."

 

(John 10:31)  The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

 

(John 10:32)  Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"

 

(John 10:33)  The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."

 

(John 10:34)  Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?

 

(John 10:35)  If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be broken--

 

(John 10:36)  do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

 

(John 10:37)  If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;

 

(John 10:38)  but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

 

(John 10:39)  Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

 

(John 10:40)  He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

 

(John 10:41)  And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true."

 

(John 10:42)  And many believed in him there.

 

The next message is the “I am the resurrection” one. This is the chapter when Lazarus was raised form the dead, and the statement was said to Martha when she went to go meet Jesus, before He raised Lazarus:

(John 11:20)  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

 

(John 11:21)  Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

 

(John 11:22)  But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."

 

(John 11:23)  Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

 

(John 11:24)  Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

 

(John 11:25)  Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

 

(John 11:26)  and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

 

(John 11:27)  She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."

 

Again this short passage of scripture gives believers hope in eternal life through the Lord Jesus Himself, as do many of Jesus’ I am messages carry that very message. After the above passage, Jesus would then go and raise Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, to the glory of God, and many people believed in Him when they saw Lazarus living again.

The next I am message is “I am the way, the truth and the life” and this is in John 14, and it is embedded in a powerful discussion, so the whole chapter is being included in the study as well:

(John 14:1)  "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

 

(John 14:2)  In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

 

(John 14:3)  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

 

(John 14:4)  And you know the way to where I am going."

 

(John 14:5)  Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

 

(John 14:6)  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

(John 14:7)  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."

 

(John 14:8)  Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."

 

(John 14:9)  Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

 

(John 14:10)  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

 

(John 14:11)  Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

 

(John 14:12)  "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

 

(John 14:13)  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 

(John 14:14)  If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

 

(John 14:15)  "If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

 

(John 14:16)  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

 

(John 14:17)  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

 

(John 14:18)  "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

 

(John 14:19)  Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

 

(John 14:20)  In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

 

(John 14:21)  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

 

(John 14:22)  Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"

 

(John 14:23)  Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

 

(John 14:24)  Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

 

(John 14:25)  "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

 

(John 14:26)  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

 

(John 14:27)  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

 

(John 14:28)  You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

 

(John 14:29)  And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

 

(John 14:30)  I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

 

(John 14:31)  but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

 

The next one is in the very next chapter is the “I am the vine” message, and again, due to its powerful messages, which deal with one’s walk as a Christian and what we are to do, the whole chapter is being included:

(John 15:1)  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

 

(John 15:2)  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

 

(John 15:3)  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

 

(John 15:4)  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

 

(John 15:5)  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

 

(John 15:6)  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

 

(John 15:7)  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

 

(John 15:8)  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

 

(John 15:9)  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

 

(John 15:10)  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

 

(John 15:11)  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

 

(John 15:12)  "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

 

(John 15:13)  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

 

(John 15:14)  You are my friends if you do what I command you.

 

(John 15:15)  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

 

(John 15:16)  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

 

(John 15:17)  These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

 

(John 15:18)  "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

 

(John 15:19)  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

 

(John 15:20)  Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

 

(John 15:21)  But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

 

(John 15:22)  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

 

(John 15:23)  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

 

(John 15:24)  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

 

(John 15:25)  But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'

 

(John 15:26)  "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

 

(John 15:27)  And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

 

There are also a couple of I am messages in Revelation. Both are in chapter 1 of the book, but the one is repeated in both chapters 21 and 22. These are I am the first and the last and I am the Alpha and the Omega, this is in the first chapter, which states the purpose of the book of Revelation:

 (Revelation 1:1)  The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

 

(Revelation 1:2)  who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

 

(Revelation 1:3)  Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

 

(Revelation 1:4)  John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

 

(Revelation 1:5)  and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

 

(Revelation 1:6)  and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

 

(Revelation 1:7)  Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

 

(Revelation 1:8)  "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

 

(Revelation 1:9)  I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

 

(Revelation 1:10)  I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

 

(Revelation 1:11)  saying, "Write what you see in a book 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."

 

(Revelation 1:12)  Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,

 

(Revelation 1:13)  and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.

 

(Revelation 1:14)  The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

 

(Revelation 1:15)  his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

 

(Revelation 1:16)  In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

 

(Revelation 1:17)  When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,

 

(Revelation 1:18)  and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

 

(Revelation 1:19)  Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.

 

(Revelation 1:20)  As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

 

Here is the I am message repeated the second time in chapter 21 in the first few verses:

(Revelation 21:1)  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

 

(Revelation 21:2)  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

 

(Revelation 21:3)  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

 

(Revelation 21:4)  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

 

(Revelation 21:5)  And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

 

(Revelation 21:6)  And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

 

(Revelation 21:7)  The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

 

(Revelation 21:8)  But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

 

The I am Alpha and Omega words are repeated again for the third time in the book of Revelation and also the promise of Him coming soon is repeated three times in chapter 22 of the book of Revelation:

(Revelation 22:1)  Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

 

(Revelation 22:2)  through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

 

(Revelation 22:3)  No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

 

(Revelation 22:4)  They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

 

(Revelation 22:5)  And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

 

(Revelation 22:6)  And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place."

 

(Revelation 22:7)  "And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."

 

(Revelation 22:8)  I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,

 

(Revelation 22:9)  but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."

 

(Revelation 22:10)  And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

 

(Revelation 22:11)  Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy."

 

(Revelation 22:12)  "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.

 

(Revelation 22:13)  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

 

(Revelation 22:14)  Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

 

(Revelation 22:15)  Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

 

(Revelation 22:16)  "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

 

(Revelation 22:17)  The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

 

(Rev elation22:18)  I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

 

(Revelation 22:19)  and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

 

(Revelation 22:20)  He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

 

(Revelation 22:21)  The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.

 

Many eagerly await His coming, too, I know I do, but He comes for those who know Him. So if you do not know Jesus, or have drifted away from Him, and want to come back it is very easy to do. I am sharing a prayer with you now, so all you need do is pray this prayer with me, to repent and accept and know Jesus or return:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours