John 1:1-13 | What's the connection?
As we have already addressed, John 1 highlights a lot of interesting things that mirrors Genesis 1. In the beginning, you have the Creator of all things. There is nothing that was made without the Word of God. All things were spoken into existence. What John 1 naturally gets the reader to do is go back to Genesis 1 and take a deeper look there. He wants to draw the reader to a place where they see that this character, the Word, is in fact one in the same with God. When you speak, your words are apart of you as much as they are separate from you. They are some how both divided yet indivisible. They belong to you and are of you, yet the sound waves are distinct from your very body. While the mystery of the Trinity persists, John demonstrates that the Word is ever of God and is God and communes with God. This distinction is highlighted throughout Scripture.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
-Hebrews 1:1-3
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
-Colossians 1:15-18
Verse 5 of John 1 also naturally draws the reader to the very first thing that was distinguished in the creation narrative. Light. The Light shone and was separated from the darkness, holy unto itself. The darkness did not, and could not overcome it. Such is the nature of light today. Darkness does not overcome it.
As the narrative shifts in verse 6, the types and shadows continue. John the Baptist is introduced along with his purpose to serve as a forerunner for the true Light.
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
-Genesis 1:16
We know what these two lights are - the moon and the sun. The lesser light testifies of the greater light. Had it not been for the shining of the greater light, the lesser would have no light to reflect or testify of. This light was also made for all mankind. Similarly, the Word shines for all. The question that remains is who will follow Him?
What connections are you seeing?
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
-Hebrews 1:1-3
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
-Colossians 1:15-18
Verse 5 of John 1 also naturally draws the reader to the very first thing that was distinguished in the creation narrative. Light. The Light shone and was separated from the darkness, holy unto itself. The darkness did not, and could not overcome it. Such is the nature of light today. Darkness does not overcome it.
As the narrative shifts in verse 6, the types and shadows continue. John the Baptist is introduced along with his purpose to serve as a forerunner for the true Light.
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
-Genesis 1:16
We know what these two lights are - the moon and the sun. The lesser light testifies of the greater light. Had it not been for the shining of the greater light, the lesser would have no light to reflect or testify of. This light was also made for all mankind. Similarly, the Word shines for all. The question that remains is who will follow Him?
What connections are you seeing?
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