This new creation

With reference to Colossians 1:15-19—Now this new creation, wonderful in its development and consummation began with the formation of a babe in the womb of the Handmaid of Yah; and ends with the cessation of "every curse" (Apoc. xxii. 3). The power of the Deity overshadowed the daughter of Heli, and in the set time was born Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews. Here was a creation of the Deity; but it was only the "beginning of the creation" hereafter to be effected by the same power. When created and anointed this new creation was Eternal Power manifest in flesh; and when resurrected and glorified, that flesh was transformed into Spirit, or Deity -- a substantial corporeal entity, called by Paul a "Quickening Spirit," and "the Lord the Spirit." Hence, viewing him thus, and not as a body of death lying in a sepulchre, the apostle says of him, "who is an image of the invisible Deity, first-born of all creation" !greek!. He then gives the reason why this first-born image of the Deity is pre-eminent over all; "because," saith be, "were created by him the all things; the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the things seen and the things unseen, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; the all things have been created through him and for him; and he is before all things, and the all things by him hold together: And he is the Head of the Body, the ecclesia, who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that among all he might become pre-eminent; for in him it pleased that all the fullness should dwell" (Col. i. 15-19). Compare this with Gen. i. 2, where the creation of the material world is attributed to Spirit of Elohim -- !hebrew!; the same spirit afterwards incarnated in Jesus; so that he, when anointed, was not only the created, but the antecedent and creator of all things defined.