Genesis 1:1a In the beginning…

I awoke with a compelling thought this morning, it is Saturday September 13, 2014. Not very earth shattering when you first look at it, but it speaks to something so important that it changed history forever. There was no January 1^st, year 0000. Yet we mark all events since that calculated date in observance of everything since. The whole world does it. The whole world agrees, without thinking about the importance perhaps, but yet still they have agreed to use that date.

Dates have always held major significance. Sept. 11, 2001, the day the twin towers came down. Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Sept. 1, 1938 Hitler invades Poland starting WWI. Oct. 24, 1929 Black Thursday, the crash of Wall Street leading to the Great Depression.

History marks time to a date over 2014 years ago. So significant was the even that history stopped and reset its calendar. Julius Caesar was born in July 100 BC and died March 15^th, 44 BC. Did you ever wonder what that date might have been at the time? Obviously BC counts down to zero, but at the time they did not use those dates, history had not yet been rewritten.

What would it take to get the whole world to reset its current calendar? What earth shattering even could possibly happen to cause us to deem all past history to be paled in comparison and start anew? So significant was the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that it changed history itself, resetting the beginning of a new time in history. What would it take to repeat that resetting of time to mark a new era?

Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.

I think that would do it.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Wordcraft is a made up word. How long does it have to be placed in use in order to become part of society and then added to a dictionary? The answer to that is based in society itself. Society determines for itself acceptable understandings. Society loves to be cleaver. Multiphasic uses are common.

But what is the Word? Some will tell you that it is the Holy Bible. We do not have complete and perfect understanding of the original manuscripts or else we would not have so many versions in English. Let me take you to the Greek and show you the first use context of the Word in John 1:1 from the outline of biblical usages, logos, 1 of speech: A; a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea.

John 1:1 translated; In the beginning was the utterance, and the utterance was with God, and the utterance was God.

Wordcrafting the verse shows a new sense, one of hearing, not merely reading and understanding. The reading and understanding of the Holy Bible is first and foremost a social introduction by means of human experience and introduction. It introduces you to the speaker but it does not allow you to hear the speaker. For that you need an utterance and an ear to hear.

Hebrews 1:2-3 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power

God speaks to us by His Son but we cannot hear the Son unless He is alive in us. The utterances of the living voice, logos.

John 15:3-4 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you.