John 1:1 The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God,
Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
The same was in the Beginning with God. ‘The same’—He who has just been spoken of as God—was in the beginning ‘with God’: i.e., ‘He of whom I have spoken as God, was in the beginning in active, eternal communion with God,—not simply the Word with God, but God with God.’
The elements of the thought have been given in John_1:1, but in their combination they acquire new force. The special object of these words seems to be to prepare for the next verse; it is only when we have been taught concerning ‘God with God’ that we are prepared to hear of the creation of all things ‘through’ the Divine Word.
He with whom the Divine Word ‘was in the beginning’ created all through Him.
John 1:4 In him was life - He was the foundation of life to every living thing, as well as of being to all that is. And the life was the light of men - He who is essential life, and the giver of life to all that lives, was also the light of men; the fountain of wisdom, holiness, and happiness, to man in his original state.
The word Genesis means 'beginning' and within the bible are recorded the origins of both sacred and secular history. This can be a new beginning in your life of a deeper understanding of the truth and love for the creator Lord God and His Word.
The first 2000 years of history are contained in the first eleven chapters and are characterized by four major and significant events. Creation, Corruption, Condemnation, Confusion
Creation: Corruption:
Origin of all things. Sin of Adam.
Gen. 1-2 Gen. 3-5
In the beginning. Satan's subtlety. Adam's sin.
Days of Creation. Strife and death. Days of Rest.
Condemnation (Flood of Noah) (Gen 6-9)
Conditions before the flood.
Salvation through flood 
Tragedy following flood
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Confusion
Tower of Babel (Gen 10-11)
Arrogance of man
Judgement of God
Origin of nations
John 1:1
In the beginning - (Referring to Gen_1:1, and Pro_8:23.) When all things began to be made by the Word: in the beginning of heaven and earth, and this whole frame of created beings, the Word existed, without any beginning. He was when all things began to be, whatsoever had a beginning. The Word - So termed Psa_33:6, and frequently by the seventy, and in the Chaldee paraphrase. So that St. John did not borrow this expression from Philo, or any heathen writer. He was not yet named Jesus, or Christ. He is the Word whom the Father begat or spoke from eternity; by whom the Father speaking, makes all things; who speaks the Father to us. We have, in Joh_1:18, both a real description of the Word, and the reason why he is so called. He is the only begotten Son of the Father, who is in the bosom of the Father, and hath declared him. And the Word was with God - Therefore distinct from God the Father. The word rendered with, denotes a perpetual tendency as it were of the Son to the Father, in unity of essence. He was with God alone; because nothing beside God had then any being. And the Word was God - Supreme, eternal, independent. There was no creature, in respect of which he could be styled God in a relative sense. Therefore he is styled so in the absolute sense. The Godhead of the Messiah being clearly revealed in the Old Testament, (Jer_23:7; Hos_1:6; Psa_23:1,) the other evangelists aim at this, to prove that Jesus, a true man, was the Messiah. But when, at length, some from hence began to doubt of his Godhead, then St. John expressly asserted it, and wrote in this book as it were a supplement to the Gospels, as in the Revelation to the prophets.
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