The Word Before the World

Tikkun Global

Jerusalem, Israel

How John’s Revelation Unlocks the Mystery of Genesis

Why is John’s revelation in the first chapter of his gospel so unique?

The other three gospels begin very differently; and recently reading Genesis 1 at the start of the yearly Torah cycle, I couldn’t help but think of John chapter 1 and how he goes all the way back to the beginning. But why?

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. 

⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the LIGHT of men.”

Genesis 1:

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 

² The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³ Then God SAID, ‘Let there be LIGHT’; and there was light.”

John was receiving revelation, paraphrasing and writing a sequel to Genesis 1, laying out how Yeshua is part of the Genesis Creation account.

Colossians 1:16-17 concurs, “For by Him [Yeshua] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible... were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”

So if that's true then we have to ask when we read Genesis 1, “Where is Yeshua?” There is Father God creating. There is the Spirit hovering (like a dove). So where is the Son of God? And then God SAID, “Let there be LIGHT.” 

“Bingo.” 

“Where is the Son = Where’s the sun = The light.” The first thing God makes is light. And how does God create according to Genesis? By His speech. That’s Yeshua too: “In the beginning was the WORD.” There He is! 

Yeshua is the speech of God. Now, think about what speech is and what it represents -  our thoughts, our consciousness.  A huge part of you is your thoughts and your words. Similarly, a big part of God is His thoughts and words. My father of blessed memory passed away in December 2018; and I was fortunate to be there with him.  I remember in his final days the stage where he could barely speak, then barely communicate with a hand squeeze. Once he stopped breathing that all stopped. Indeed, our consciousness, our being alive, is expressed through speech and communication. Yeshua is the Word, the speech, the expression, the wisdom, the power that comes out of God.

“In the beginning was the Word (logos); and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”  And the Word became flesh. It's Him. It’s Yeshua. He is God, and He is also “with God” - distinguished, yet the same. What a mystery!  

John’s opening refers to light six times.  He’s very focused. He's interacting with Genesis 1 saying that Yeshua is the light which was spoken out by God. Albert Einstein discovered that e=mc2, the general Theory of Relativity. Energy equals mass times the speed of light (“c”) squared. The foundation of that discovery is that the ONLY absolute that never ever changes in the universe is what? The speed of LIGHT. Wow!

The first thing that proceeds out of God is the Word. And that Word is a person. What a great revelation. God is not just raw power, not a mathematical formula. He is the ultimate being, the “person” in whose image we are created.

The life was the light of men

A lot has been said during these past two years about the Judeo-Christian value of life versus this jihadist Islamic suicide death cult. Human life in the image of God is the foundation of our Judeo-Christian civilization, which is being attacked from Islam and from secularism as well. We have to stand for this, the destiny of being conformed to His image. His life that was the light to all men, is now to shine through us.  What does that say about the value, the glory, the meaning of mankind? It says we’re sons and daughters, children of God, made to be resurrected, to live forever.

In short, from the very beginning and all throughout the scriptures, Yeshua is at the center!

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