The words of Jesus Christ to the church at Smyrna. This says the first and the last, who was dead and became alive. A repetition from Revelation 1:18. Jesus created the earth in Genesis 1 with man on the sixth day, He was the First. He is the Last, He will create the New Earth and New Heaven and rule forever. He died at the Cross of Golgotha and was the First to rise from the dead and will live Forever.