B’reisheet: With God in Creation

“In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1)

…So the poem begins, as we dive into the Craftsman’s meticulous, artisanal process, reading at a pace likely much too quick to catch the immediate Gospel proclamation being spoken in the opening words of creation.

Let’s read it again.

“In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1)

This opening compound word - B’reisheet - starts with the word “bar,” which - in this phrase - can also mean son, beloved, firstborn, or first fruits.

Yes, Genesis was in the start of time, but it was also by, in, and through a particular someone.

This someone was a firstborn and beloved son, who would be deemed the first fruit of all Creation.

In John 1, a poem designed thousands of years later to intentionally reflect the creation language of Genesis 1, we see these words:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that had been made.” (John 1:1-3).

Later we discover this “Word” - Logos in Greek - that John is referring to “became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).

The term Logos, to the Greco-Roman era in which this Gospel was written, was understood as the transcendent origin, cause, sustenance, and reason for all things.

And who was this enfleshed “Logos” figure that John spoke of?

“…the only Son from the Father.” (John 1:14)

His name was Yeshua.

From the very first word in Genesis, everything points to the firstborn Son of God as the wellspring of life and the source of all truth and meaning.

Yeshua has never not been entirely present across the fullness of our story.

He was literally within the beginning, and the beginning was an outflow of Him.