The Apostles’ References to the Pre-existent Son

The revelation of the Son, that God had a Son with Him in heaven from the beginning of creation, is the heart of the New Testament.  The Son was unknown to anyone in heaven or earth before God sent His Son into the world.  The apostles must have been astonished to learn that the Son had existed with God all that time.  How many Old Testament scriptures were made new to them by that knowledge, for they read them with eyes that have been opened by the Spirit!  Below are all the places in the New Testament where the apostles proclaimed that exciting truth.  If you notice any verses that I may have overlooked, please let me know.

An integral part of that amazing revelation is that God had created all things through the Son whom He had kept hidden with Him in heaven.  Amazingly, the apostles mentioned that truth  in only three verses in the entire New Testament.  I have underlined those three places in the verses below.

 

John 1

¶1. In the beginning, the Word was there, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2. He was in the beginning with God.

3. All things were created through him, and without him was nothing created that was created.

1John 1

1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our hands touched: the Word of life.

2. And the life was revealed, and we saw it, and we are bearing witness and showing you the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us.

Philippians 2

5. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,

6. who, although existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be grasped after.

7. Instead, he emptied himself, taking on the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men.

Colossians 1

13. [God] delivered us from the domain of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

. . . .

15. who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature,

16. for by him were all things created, things in the heavens and things on earth, things visible and things invisible; whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities, all things were created through him and for him,

17. and he is before all things, and all things are held together by him.

18. He is also the head of the body, the Assembly of God; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in everything, he might be preeminent,

Ephesians 3

8. To me, the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the incomprehensible richness of Christ

9. and to enlighten all men as to what is the plan of the mystery that has been hidden from the Aeons by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 1

1. After God spoke in many and various ways to the fathers in olden times by the prophets, He spoke to us in these last days by a Son,

2. whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.

. . . .

8a. To the Son He said, 

. . . . 

10. “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands.”

Revelation 3

14. “And to the messenger of the Assembly in Laodicea, write: The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, says these things.