Last words....

Last words....

My mom, "I love you"

My husband, "I love you"

My dad, "I love you, take care"

These were the last words to me from people who leaving this world for another, their last words here on earth before they entered their heavenly home...poignant ....caring.....encouraging .....

The Bible records several last words of various people through the ages....

Jacob gave blessings and instructions to his sons in Genesis 48 and 49..

Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” 25 And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Moses, in Deuteronomy  32, recites a whole song in the company of the Israelites, and then climbs the mountain, views the promised land and dies on the mountain.

David gives is last words In following words.....

2 Samuel 23:1-7

23 These are the last words of David:

“The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,

    the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,

the man anointed by the God of Jacob,

    the hero of Israel’s songs:

2 “The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me;

    his word was on my tongue.

3 The God of Israel spoke,

    the Rock of Israel said to me:

‘When one rules over people in righteousness,

    when he rules in the fear of God,

4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise

    on a cloudless morning,

like the brightness after rain

    that brings grass from the earth.’

5 “If my house were not right with God,

    surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant,

    arranged and secured in every part;

surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation

    and grant me my every desire.

6 But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,

    which are not gathered with the hand.

7 Whoever touches thorns

    uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;

    they are burned up where they lie.”

Further into time, Jesus, on the cross , said, "it is finished ".  And later as He ascends into heaven, 

Acts 1:7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

It time, Jesus does have the last word.....He says of himself,,"I am the beginning and the end

Revelation 1:4 b-8

Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits[a] before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

7 “Look, he is coming with the clouds,”[b]

    and “every eye will see him,

even those who pierced him”;

    and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”[c]

So shall it be! Amen.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Those are glorious end words

Lord , help my words can be a blessing.