Let’s just jump right into who the Son of God is. It is the foundation of what John 1:1 Co. is. 

So, what does this scripture, John 1:1 say?

“In the beginning, God created the hea…”

Oh, sorry, that was Genesis 1:1. I was trying to quote John 1:1.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬ ‭BSB‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/3034/jhn.1.1.BSB

John 1:1 is a play on Genesis 1, as it is commonly preached in the body of Christ. But what does this really mean? Let’s walk through what both of these two scriptures are trying to say.

In the beginning… is the start of time. Both these scriptures point to the same moment in time, the very start of it. But to explore deeply, “beginning” really means that something preceded the beginning and it alludes to a function of time. The textbook definition of beginning is “the point in time or space at which something starts”.

So, in looking at Genesis 1:1 closely, it says, “God created the heavens and the earth”. To begin something alludes to time which means that heaven and earth had to be created in time, and was specifically made first. All this means that time was also created by God. For proof of this, Hebrews 1:2 expresses God as the creator of the world and of time.

“But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through him God created the panorama of all things and all time.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬ ‭TPT‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/1849/heb.1.2.TPT

In further conversation on this term “In the beginning”, it is just one word in hebrew translation as beresheit. There are a few Hebrew letters that make up this word. When each Hebrew letter is translated back to English, Tav, Yud, Shin, Alef, Resh, Beit, it will read, “The son of God, crowned with thorns upon His head, on a tree, a gift of the covenant”. For further explanation on this you can go to this website. https://www.calledoutbelievers.org/bereshit-and-the-depth-of-meaning-in-the-first-word-of-bible/

This term has so much depth and even prophesies what is now our historical accounts of the cross on Calvary. John 1:1 automatically inherits these deeper meanings from the inspired text in Genesis because John the writer of this gospel, is using it to retell the origin of everything made to make a point (to be explained in later blog postings). Not to mention that the next few verses after John 1:1 really mirrors the context of light vs darkness as it is also written in the verses following Genesis 1:1.

What an inspiration Genesis 1 had on John 1!

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