Reference: Beginning
Morish
Besides the common use of this word in many connections, it is used in a special sense to carry the mind back into
a, eternity, when the Word was with God, and was God, by whom all things were made. Joh 1:1-3; Ac 15:18 (which should read 'from eternity'). Also to the eternity of Jehovah, 'the beginning and the end.' Re 1:8; 21:6; 22:13.
b, The creation, whether it was creating out of nothing or forming the heavens and the earth Isa 64:4; Heb 1:10. Also the creation of man and woman. Mt 19:4,8; Mr 10:6.
c, The beginning of Christianity. Joh 15:27; 16:4; 1Jo 1:1; 3:11; 2Jo 1:5-6.
d, foundation or source, It is used also with a moral sense as a foundation or source, as in Col 1:18; Re 3:14.
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Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,
While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up. Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.
See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.
The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
But from the first, male and female made he them.
From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. This Word was from the first in relation with God. read more. All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:
I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.
I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.