Mathew and Luke start their books with the story of Jesus’ birth. Mark begins with Jesus’ baptism, but John’s first words go immediately to his goal of establishing Jesus as the Son of God (John 20:31). “In the beginning was the Word.”
Verse 14 establishes he is referring to Jesus. (And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.) With that in mind, let’s read the first verse inserting The Word’s earthly name, Jesus.
In the beginning was Jesus (the Word) and Jesus was with God, and the Jesus was God.”
It was man who rebelled against God, so man had to be punished (Genesis 2:17). The dilemma was that man could never earn his way out of the wrath of God yet God loved us and wanted us to know him. So he determined to come in the form of man to take the punishment on himself (Philippians 2:5-8).
That is why we can once again have communion with God.
