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The Word in the Beginning mouthpieces that reported snippets of
Purposely, the opening lines of John divine truth to Israel, but in these last days
1 match those of Genesis 1. “In the be- God has spoken to us “in Son” – in a Son-
revelation (Heb 1:2, literal translation).
ginning, God created the heavens and Thus, to hear the Word is to hear the voice
the earth” (Gen 1:1) resembles “In the of God Himself; to see and know the Son
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beginning was the Word, and the Word is to see and know His Father also (Joh
was with God, and the Word was God. 14:9). The Lord Jesus is the total Message
He was in the beginning with God. All – all that God can communicate to man,
things were made through him” (Joh God’s last Word.
1:1-3). Writing Genesis, Moses continues,
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and The Word and God
there was light. And God saw that the
light was good. And God separated the The “Word” is no abstract principle or
light from the darkness” (Gen 1:3-4). In impersonal force bridging the transcen-
parallel, John adds, “In him was life, and dent God and the material universe; He is
the life was the light of men. The light a divine Person who existed before time,
shines in the darkness, and the darkness space and matter. In eternity, the Word
has not overcome it” (Joh 1:4-5). So both was face to face with God, and yet the
Moses and John unveil the glory of the Word Himself was God. Scripture solves
eternal God whose spoken word power- this paradox by proclaiming that God is
fully makes the universe, creates light, a Trinity – three Persons with one Nature.
overwhelms darkness, begets life, reveals The Word – the Son – eternally existed in
truth, and transforms all it reaches. loving fellowship with the Father and the
Spirit. Like the Father and the Spirit, the
Twice in his prologue John calls the Word is a distinct Person who speaks of
Lord Jesus “the Word.” God is a relational Himself as “I” and to the Others as “You.”
Being who longs to bless His creatures by The Trinity is not one God appearing in
revealing Himself to them. He created lan- three forms, but one God existing in three
guage as the foremost means to transmit Persons, each fully God.
truth and build relationships. Through
the medium of words, information passes The Word and Creation
from His mind to ours. So the Holy Spirit
inspired John to name the Lord Jesus “the In Hebrew thinking, God’s Word was
Word” because the Son of God commu- more than an intelligible sound; it was
nicates God’s mind and will to men. But an independent entity, a bullet of energy
the Word is not merely the Middleman capable of accomplishing whatever God
who transfers truth from God to people; intended: “So shall my word be that goes
rather, He is the Truth (Joh 14:6). He is not out from my mouth; it shall not return
only the Messenger but also the Message to me empty, but it shall accomplish that
itself. Old Testament prophets were mere which I purpose, and shall succeed in
the thing for which I sent it” (Isa 55:11).
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the In Genesis 1, the 10 occurrences of the
ESV. phrase “and God said” show God releas-

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