The Beginning
The Old Testament begins by telling us how, in the beginning, God created… God spoke a Word and there it was.
He spoke and He made and it was good.
He said ‘Let there be…’ and He created it, and it was, and He named it, and it was good.
And He spoke a blessing over it and spoke it into all it should be.
The New Testament gospel of John begins by telling us how in the beginning was the Word, which was God, was God, and became flesh to live among us and redeem us back to the Father.
The New Testament ends in Revelation telling us that Jesus, who was from the eternal beginning and the end of all things – the eternal I AM – He will return victoriously to bring His children into His Kingdom in the new heaven and new earth.
The beginning and the end; the alpha and the omega.
The eternal I AM – without beginning or end.
Genesis 1
1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so…
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so… And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation… And it was so…
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night…
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created… God blessed them and said…
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: … And it was so… God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image…
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”…
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
John 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it…
John 1, verse 14: The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Rev 22: 13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Most Fridays, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. The prompt this week is BEGINNING
I do read through my script afterwards to correct obvious mistakes; to check scripture references and to find an appropriate image to illustrate the topic.
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