The Milta: the Revelation of God in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1

God bless Rabbi Manis Friedman for sharing this Jewish understanding of Genesis 1:1: This one line in the Bible REVEALS God's reason for CREATION. The understanding is that the purpose for God's creation of the world is the revelation of Himself. Says Friedman, the word for to create, bara (Strong's 1254), can mean to reveal. Hence, God created the heavens and the earth to reveal Himself:

"In the Beginning God revealed Himself."

"God created the world so that He would be known."

"In the Beginning what was revealed was God."

The heavens and the earth were created to reveal God. This was not apart from what is happening now. "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork" (Psalm 19:1 KJV). The revelation of God is ongoingly in the heavens and the earth.

The world is as I call it, imagic.

The Milta (Aramaic) in John 1:1 is God's revelation in Genesis 1:1. "God revealed Himself (created the heavens and the earth)." That revelation of God is the Milta. John was translating the Torah: God IS what is revealed in the Milta, Himself in the heavens and the earth. And people say there is no evidence of God or of the historical Christ.

What John is saying is that that revelation of God, the Milta, God imagined Himself as a man born in this world at the end of the Season of Grace TO REVEAL HIMSELF by living a perfect life and giving Himself as man's sacrifice. John says in 1:18 that God spoke of Him, literally (in the Greek) it says that He "revealed" Him. Yes, in Genesis 1:1!!