In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
It’s interesting that the very first concept God expresses to mankind, is the concept of being “in” something. In this case, God communicated to us that “In the beginning” he created the heavens and the earth.
“In”… why do you think God chose that to be the first concept those seeking Him would ponder about? God could have said anything as the opening lines of communication. He could have declared that He was the almighty God. He could have declared that He demanded obedience. Instead, He chose to talk about being ‘in’ something. Wow, I find that very interesting!
What about the next two words “the beginning”? Well, let’s remember what Jesus declared so powerfully in the book of Revelation: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” Rev 21:6
So here we can see, by Jesus’ own admission, that the beginning is not at all a moment in time, but rather a person! And that person is the almighty person of Jesus! Think about that, Jesus “is” the beginning.
So now when we go back to the opening line of Genesis, but read it in its correct “Christ context” we can see that the first thing that God actually communicated to mankind was “In Christ, God created the heavens and the earth”!
It begins to now make sense why God communicated the concept of being ‘in’ something before he communicated anything else, because to the Father there is nothing more important than mankind getting a revelation that can be “in Christ” too!
It’s really awesome to be able to read about the glory of being “in Christ” right from the very first words in the Old Testament! The life story of Jesus is quite literally in every verse of the Old Testament, we only need to have eyes that see Him 
I can’t wait to share more pictures of Jesus from the book of Genesis in my next blog.
