'Beginning' in the Bible

He replied, “Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

He said to them, “Because your hearts were hard and stubborn Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last [to be hired] and ending with the first [to be hired].’

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].

For at that time there will be a great tribulation (pressure, distress, oppression), such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will [again].