Main news for 20 August 2021

What wants to say the apostle, speaking about Jesus that "by Him all things consist"? And in what sense He "is before all things"? Of course, first of all come to mind those traditional representations of the Messiah, which supposed that the Messiah was already conceived by God before the creation of the world, so that His coming will certainly take place, and the universe from the beginning existed for Him and for this Kingdom that had to enter the world together with Him.

Of course, having in mind the Jewish messianic conceptions, it comes to consider that the representations appropriate to them of the Kingdom were sometimes quite far away from the evangelic representations, and even the image of the Messiah reflected in them turned out sometimes rather archaic, reminding more the Messiah of Isaiah of Jerusalem or even the representation of a righteous ruler, proper to early prophets traditions. But nevertheless, Jesus remained the central figure of the world history, as in the context of the historic process, quite as in the context of the relationships between God and the people of God. But Paul, as seen, has in mind not only that. He speaks about the Christ, Who participates in the creation of the world, and it is already clear here that it is not about a created being, even if conceived by God before even the beginning of time. One can say such a thing only about the Creator. It is obvious that Paul sees in Christ the Creator, as well as God Himself.

It is obvious to Paul that Christ not only brought the Kingdom to the world. His existence is not limited only by the time of His stay on earth. And if in the future (and for Paul, as for every Christian, this future already became partially the present), one could speak of the resurrection of Christ and of His coming return in glory as King triumphing in His Kingdom, which "is not of this world", then if in the past we could speak about the beginning of the personality of the Messiah, of its beginning not only in the sense of those plans of God about which spoke the Jewish tradition, but also in the sense of God's intention which in the created world found the most adequate expression in the word with which God creates the world.

In fact, all the prophetic experience is based on the containment of the very word within the framework of the human nature, in the measure in which the man of God could contain it. And what, if came into the world the One, Who is capable of containing it completely? Then the word will become Word, containing in itself all the plenitude of God, and the Man containing It {the Word} will become God-Man. And the apostle is sure that it is particularly Jesus who contained the Word till the end and in the fullness. And became the One through Whom God creates the world. To be later born in the world the One through Whom the world will be saved.