He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:15
Colossians 1:15
Long, long
ago… there wasn’t even a galaxy far, far away. There was nothing as we know it
now, not a planet, not a star, not a constellation. But there was God and He
had His own separate dimension filled with Living Creatures, Cherubim,
Seraphim, and a whole host of angels. There was a celestial city where the
throne of God was placed, but nothing more than that has been revealed.
At the
starting point of time, God invented visible light and probably the whole
electromagnetic spectrum with radio waves, X-waves, and gamma radiation. Our
universe then officially started. The Creator went on to make solids, liquids,
and gases and formed them in a myriad of different ways, making Stars, galaxies, and nebuli. He must have had fun making whole new
worlds, because He made so many.
The
Almighty is not matter or energy, but He played with them. Often when He
approached His creation on earth He would dress Himself in light and people
would refer to that as the Glory of the LORD. After designing and
constructing the male human prototype and his female companion model, God put
on physical form, so He could walk and talk with mankind.
God was
never created and Jesus was over all Creation long before He was born in
Bethlehem. The title Firstborn refers to chronological order. By Christ “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. And He is before all things, and in Him
all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17). In short, the Son of God is the Firstborn of all Creation.
False
witnesses try to confuse Christians by saying that this title means that Jesus
was the first creature God created. Nothing can be further from the truth, because the Lord Jesus is God. His deity is obvious when the whole section is
read in context (Colossians 1:9-18)
and the conclusion is “that in all things He may have the preeminence.”
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