Eve777you said
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Is this God speaking? NO it is not....it is Jesus....
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
The Book of the Revelations of Jesus Christ.....
Rev 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.
Rev 1:18 I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
John was talking to Jesus....
I said
Now eve I see it different. what John saw and what John heard could be different. It says that John was in the Spirit(in his mind) and he heard a voice. Then after the voice he turned around and saw the lampstands.
Rev 1:10-12
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,
11 saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,
(NKJ)