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Christ is our Advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1); the Greek word for Advocate refers to one who is called to another’s side to aid him; hence, a helper; it refers also to one who offers legal aid or one who intercedes on behalf of someone else; hence, an advocate, counsel, or intercessor:

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According to Revelation 12:10-11, Satan is accusing God’s children day and night, but they can overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb.

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Satan would accuse us of being unclean, unholy, and unrighteous, but God the Father would say, “Satan, look at Jesus Christ the righteous One; My children have a good Attorney.”

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We have to tell Satan, “Shut up! Don’t say anything!” and then we need to praise the Lamb by saying, “Hallelujah to the Lamb! Hallelujah for the blood!”

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When we shout “Hallelujah,” life is dispensed into us once more; Christ, our Advocate, is taking care of our case so that life dispensing can continuously go on.

J　

Our Christ is the Alpha and the Omega (22:13a); in the Greek alphabet Christ is the first letter, Alpha, the last letter, Omega, and all the letters in between for the inexhaustible dispensing of life.

K　

Christ is the First and the Last (2:8; 22:13b), the ever-existing, unchanging One:

１　

Whatever the persecuting environment may be, the Lord remains the same; nothing can precede Him, nor can anything exist after Him.

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All things are within the limits of His control; Christ occupies everything and every place.

L　

Christ is the Beginning and the End (v. 13c); the Beginning indicates that He is the origination of all things, and the End, that He is the consummation of all things; hence, the indication here is not only that there is nothing before or after the Lord Jesus but also that there is no origination or consummation without Him (cf. Rom. 11:36).

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Christ is the beginning of the creation of God (Rev. 3:14b); this refers to the Lord as the origin or source of God’s creation, implying that the Lord is the unchanging and ever-existing source of God’s work for the purpose of dispensing God into His chosen ones; this indicates that the degraded recovered church in Laodicea has changed by leaving the Lord as the source (Jer. 2:13).

N　

Christ is the living One; in Revelation 1:17-18 Christ said, “I am...the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of death and of Hades”; for Christ to dispense life, He must be the living One to make the church the house of the living God—1 Tim. 3:15.