When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,”
Read enough of the Bible and you'll find the same reassurance turning up again and again, as person after person is told not to be afraid. If you're new to all this, it's easy to hear that as a sigh from heaven, the voice of someone who has had to say it once too often.