In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And so I told them: “There you go… did you get it?”
- “In the beginning God…” – The Father.
- “…and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” – The Spirit.
And then I asked, “And who is the Word of God?”
Hint: John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Jesus is the Word of God – which I read to mean that when the Father speaks, He speaks through the Son. In fact, it seems to me that since the Bible is the Word of God, that makes Jesus the Author.
So in Genesis 1:1 we have the Father (spoken of through the Word of God), and in Genesis 1:2 we have the Holy Spirit (again, spoken of through the Word of God) – the Holy Trinity in the 1st two verses of the bible...
As John goes on to say about Jesus in the next verse, He not only speaks, but also works (John 2): “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made”. And again in John 10:25, where Jesus says "The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me".
I think we have a perfect opportunity here to throw away thoughts of Jesus relegated to being solely a “New Testament character”. Sure, the Baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem as described in the Gospels of the New Testament, but the Son of God was always active and involved as a Member of the Holy Trinity, from before the foundations of the earth were laid (He laid them - see Hebrews 1:10).
So, here is how I see it (examples below):
When I read this in Genesis 12:1: "Now the Lord had said to Abram…" I see Jesus as the Lord here…
Or a bit later, in Genesis 18:1: "Then the Lord appeared to him (Abraham) by the terebinth trees of Mamre…" Again, I see Jesus… oh I realize He isn’t called Jesus here, but whenever the Lord is present in the Old Testament (which is...well...pretty much everywhere!), that’s who I think of…
Who do you think of?