And the earth was a [waste] formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the [primeval ocean] surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Do you believe in God? – אֱלֹהִים
Is your god or are your gods the God of Scripture?
IF SO (even if not), DO YOU FEAR THE ONE WHO IS AND WAS, THE ALMIGHTY THE ETERNAL ONE?
OR do you, a mere MORTAL & created one create a god you DO NOT FEAR?
What if your theory of creation is wrong?
Then might your concept of LIFE, DEATH AND JUDGMENT also be suspect?
Will you bet your ETERAL soul on this failing flesh?
What is your short take on Genesis 1:1-2 and the God (according to Scripture) who caused the biggest bang in the cosmos and created man from the dust of creation?
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The Apostle John begins his Gospel prologue with inspired, nearly unparalleled words pointing back to Genesis 1. Every Jew who knew God knew the beginning of the the Pentateuch.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve’et ha’aretz.
John connects creation with logos, literally the word forword in the Greek. Jesus is the Person of the spoken Word of Elohim! אֱלֹהִים
2 He was in the beginning with God.
In essence John proclaimed:
Jesus IS in the beginning, Jesus is with Elohim, Jesus IS Elohim!
Basic Belief: Do you believe in God?
John begins by categorically stating that Jesus IS the One True God.
This is Good News to those who believe. Yet even if you do not believe in the One God, John proclaims this Gospel as challenge to our misconceptions of the Creator.
Every Greek knew the importance of logos. A secondary use of the word logos, familiar to unbelieving Greeks who claimed many gods, is its use as respect to the MIND alone.
Reason through it and try calculating the logic of this relationship between a Power you cannot measure and a Person whom we have regarded. And again, John points to creation:
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In his first letter to the church John begins in a similar fashion when addressing those who already follow Christ Jesus in the first century.
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have observed and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life …
The Disciple Jesus loved gives followers of The Way a testimony of his own witness of ‘God in the flesh’ in the Person of the Messiah of God.
Orazio Fidani, Saint John the Apostle, c. 1640-56
John, now a fully mature Elder, tells his churches, gatherings of believers in Christ:
We know that Jesus IS who He says He IS. We are witnesses to the facts and preach our testimony to you you.
Jesus IS God and we have personally seen, heard, observed and touched the Living God!
Good news for believers.
4 ‘We are writing these things so that our joy may be complete,’ John writes to believers.
Jesus, the Christ, a personal Lord who loves and ministers to sinners.
The Beginning and the End
John’s Gospel and three letters reveal Jesus as the Christ, Almighty God as One with the eternal Person of the Son of Man.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John speaks to the beginning of Creation, in addition to providing troubling imagery of the apocalypse of the heavens and earth.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the affliction, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
The Apostle John, whom we picture as a young man mentored by Jesus, reveals much more about the Lord.
Almighty God, Creator of the heavens and earth, in whose image man is made, IS; in the Person of Jesus, a Savior to eternal life to those He loves.
Jesus will also judge rebellious sinners and cleanse creation of all unrighteousness. The LORD will make all things right.
John, through Christ, reveals the ending:
Revelation 21:3b Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
John’s Good News
Jesus loves you. This is John’s message. God is immeasurably more than an understood Power. Jesus shows God as a loving Father who also gives freedom to mankind to choose eternal life or deserved punishment for sin.
Do you believe in One God? Can you relate to Almighty God as a loving Father of a chosen family? In Christ Jesus we have seen the Lord!
John gives us both brief glimpses and detailed accounts of the Logos, the Very Word of God.
No mere mortal can fully fathom the ever-existent Creator of all things and of all men, even in the personal witness of John. Yet John reveals even more of the completeness of the One True God through consideration of the Spirit of God, the subject of our next look at understanding the Lord through the eyes of the Disciple Jesus loved.
6 Listen, for I will speak of excellent things,
And from the opening of my lips will come right things;
7 For my mouth will speak truth;
Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are with righteousness;
Nothing crooked or perverse is in them.
9 They are all plain to him who understands,
And right to those who find knowledge.
Ah, wisdom, such a rare jewel among riches, a hidden treasure in the palaces of kings.
Does a son of man in this 21st century even consider her value before proclaiming foolishness?
O, that a humble King could be found, a son of man with whom wisdom occupies a seat of honor at his banquet.
15 By me kings reign,
And rulers decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles,
All the judges of the earth.
17 I love those who love me,
And those who seek me diligently will find me.
Wisdom. A wise ruler surveys the land, chooses the high ground and builds upon a foundation of the Lord’s righteousness. Though cunning may sweep an evil one into a palace on shifting sand, no monument outlasts the wisdom of the Lord.
22 “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.
23 I have been established from everlasting,
From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,
When there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was brought forth;
26 While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields,
Or the primal dust of the world.
27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there,
When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 When He established the clouds above,
When He strengthened the fountains of the deep,
29 When He assigned to the sea its limit,
So that the waters would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth,
30 Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman;
And I was daily His delight,
Rejoicing always before Him,
31 Rejoicing in His inhabited world,
And my delight was with the sons of men.
John 1:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
Proverbs 8:
33 Hear instruction and be wise,
And do not disdain it…
35 For whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the Lord;
36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.”
Do you seek the house of wisdom and will you hear her voice?
What word of wisdom would you with ears to hear obey?
