What Happened in the Beginning?
Imagine if the beginning was not an event in a certain location but …a person? What might he say? Who might he talk about? How would he describe everything?
It may sound a bit strange but… not in the context of Jesus Christ. Jesus is said to be the resurrection itself, he is said to be truth itself. He described himself as The Way, he is even described as the Alpha (the first) and Omega (the last).
Maybe it is not so crazy a thought because a woman named Wisdom speaks at length in Proverbs chapter 8.
Why could not The Beginning metaphorically speak and testify?
Jesus Christ is the Beginning
The truth is Jesus Christ is described as The Beginning among many other things.
Colossians 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything
Read that verse again, Colossians 1:18 describes Jesus Christ as The Beginning. Beginning is not a time and a place it’s a person. That is how massive and all encompassing Jesus Christ really is. So what is Jesus the beginning of?
As far as this universe is concerned Jesus Christ is the beginning of it, its purpose and its future, all things. Jesus Christ is the origin of all of humanity, all that God has planned for us and this universe. As far as any question humanity could have about anything about origins and purpose for all things. Jesus Christ is its answer and its beginning.
From His Side Book
In my new book From His Side, The Beginning emerged from the side of Jesus Christ and testified about him and our purpose. Here is a small portion of when he emerged and spoke directly to a church.
“He created me then he created wisdom and understanding[1]. We stood in awe containing and enabling the handiwork of his universe, everything that can be seen. He crafted things of almost infinite massiveness and infinite smallness with the same detail and wisdom. I am the container that holds his creation. The work of Wisdom began within me. When he penetrates this world again, returning to reclaim all that he built, tearing the heavens like a garment[2]. I will yield to his presence. He will pass through me as if I were an open door. Space and time, the beginning and the end, will bow to his matchless presence.” – The Beginning
[1] Proverbs 8:26-27 While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep.
[2] Revelation 6:14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
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