The second person of the Trinity, the God-man, Jesus Christ was eternally present with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. As John 1 shows Jesus Christ is the Word of God which was also with God and is God from all eternity. The Word of God as Hebrews 1 shows is the reality of God speaking to us and shows the power of His word through the act of creation that both John 1 and Hebrews 1 testifies. The person of Christ was not only present at creation but was through whom all things were made. Through this creative act in the beginning and the re-creative act through salvation, Christ becomes the giver of life and light shining out through the darkness.
This light and life are shown forth through the image of God that man bears, the fuller image that the Christian bears and the even fuller image that the person of Jesus Christ bears to all of creation. This can only be seen through the flesh that Jesus Christ takes on as John 1 describes which enables us to see his glory and as Hebrews 1 describes a radiant glory as the perfect and exact representative of God in the flesh. Jesus Christ is the perfect image of God, as the elect are to be in Christ alone, shining this glory before the entire world.
John 1 continues to unfold the person of Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the law given to Moses, as the grace and truth of Jesus Christ. The law continuously points us towards the righteousness of God, as that is fulfilled in the person and work of Jesus Christ by the fullness of his grace and truth revealed to the world through his word and redemptive act as the pure sacrifice on the cross. It is because of this sacrifice that Hebrews 1 shows us that Jesus Christ is the superior and supreme Son of God, the King and Lord of all creation. His humiliation leads directly to his exaltation as he receives a higher adoption as the already existent Son of God, magnified and loved by the Father, and given the reward as the exalted Son to sit at the right hand of God as King.
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