2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ~ John 1:2-3
In John 1:1 we learned that Jesus is God. In v.2 we learn that He as with the other two persons of the Godhead at the beginning of time.
Note those two words in v.2 "with God." "With" is a relational word. Relationship is a huge word with God. Right in the middle of making the point that Jesus is the God who created through His word, in the most subtle way, God accentuates relationship. God has always been relational.
In fact, there are relationships to be observed in the stars. When God designed and created the universe, He determined that clocks and calendars would be based on the motion of the moon, the earth, the planets and other objects in the heavens. Time is to this day measured in terms of the rotational period of the earth on its axis, the month is basically a lunar cycle and the year an orbital period of the earth's motion around the sun.
As noted in Galatians 3:8 God preached the Gospel to Abraham. He did this through the stars. In Genesis 15 and in Genesis 22. Note these are two separate incidents. Galatians 3:6 reads, "Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness." This quote comes directly from Genesis 15:6. Abraham was childless and had no heir. Then God said to him, "Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”"
"So shall your offspring be." Does this mean that Abraham was to have many children? In Galatians 3:16, Paul says: "The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ."
Abraham lists the star names in sequence from constellation to constellation telling the story of the stars from their names, and God says to him "So will your offspring, the Messiah, be."
On the second occasion in Genesis 22:17, Abraham was promised seed like "the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea shore for multitude." According to Paul in Galatians 3, it was specifically on the first occasion in Genesis 15 that Messiah was promised from Abraham's lineage and Abraham believed God. Finally note that God preached the Gospel of Christ to Abraham by this method, and by faith Abraham accepted the message.
Back to John 1:2 which reads, "He was with God in the beginning." The Word became flesh and lived here, for a while, on earth. God, the Son, decided to limit Himself to living as a human in order to connect with all humans. There is nothing I will not do for my children. I will go without so that they may have. Why? Because I love them so. It is no different with our Savior. He will deny Himself so that we, those whom He loves, will be blessed. He took on a human body in order to reach humans.
“Through Him all things were made.” Jesus Christ, God the Son, was the Father’s agent, or Word, in the creation of all things. But in doing it, he was God. God, the Word, created the world. Our Savior, Lord, and Friend is our Maker.
Now, these first three verses in John's Gospel makes it impossible. for someone to declare that Jesus had a beginning or was Himself made by God. But, someone might object by saying "through Him all things were made." Christ was not made. This is what it means to be God. By definition God means supreme being. He is not a creature; he created creatures. And, "all things" does not include Him, because He is the Supreme Being. Creation includes everything but Him.
But John did not leave it at that. He said, at the end of v.3, “without him nothing was made that was made.” Anything in the category of made, Christ made it. Therefore, Christ was not made. Because before He exists, He can’t bring Himself into being.
