Beginning (2)

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A starting point, origin or source. The beginning often refers to the time of or before the creation of the world. God is described as the Beginning and the End, denoting the eternity of his existence. Jesus Christ’s coming marks a new beginning both for God’s people and, finally, for all creation.

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Beginning as the starting point

As the source

Psalm 111:10 NKJV

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.

See also ; ; the source of Israel’s sin; Jesus Christ as the source of the church’s life

As the origin

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As the commencement

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The beginning: before the creation

Proverbs 8:22–23 NKJV

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.

Jesus Christ’s existence predates the creation

John 17:5 NKJV

And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

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Salvation planned before the creation

Ephesians 1:3–4 NKJV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

The beginning: the creation

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Marriage ordained from the beginning

Matthew 19:4–6 NKJV

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

The beginning of Israel’s nationhood

Exodus 12:2 NKJV

“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

New beginnings for God’s people

For Israel

Hosea 2:14–15 NKJV

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

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For believers

2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

A new creation

Isaiah 65:17 NKJV

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

Beginnings of significant events

The rebuilding of Jerusalem

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Jesus Christ’s ministry

Matthew 4:17 NKJV

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

The beginning of signs of the end

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The beginning and the end

Implying all-inclusiveness

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The beginning and end contrasted

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Completing what is begun

Philippians 1:6 NKJV

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

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God as the Beginning and the End

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Satan as sinful from the beginning

John 8:44 NKJV

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.