The galactic size and impact of God. John 1:3. Commentary on the book of John.

 We are still looking at the galactic impact and size of God, the Son - Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

“All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him (Jesus), nothing came into being that has come into being.”
John 1:3 NASB

Consider how the New Language Translation brings this out.

“God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.”
John 1:3 NLT

This conveys that Jesus was present from the beginning. Consider this statement: All things came into being through Him. Consider the numerous moments in the Old Testament where we see the angel of the Lord presenting Himself before various people, such as Adam or Moses.

In Genesis 3, we find “God” walking in the garden "in the cool of the day."

“They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.” Genesis 3:8 NASB

The “they” is Adam and Eve shortly after the deception and resulting corruption of everything.

The Hebrew word for walking is hālaḵ. According to the Word Study Dictionary, it is “a verb meaning to go, to come, to walk. This common word carries with it the basic idea of movement.”

I point this out because some translations convey that they heard the voice of the Lord walking. The problem is that a voice cannot walk. I can theorize reasons to accept that statement, but it does not make sense. If it is a reasonable translation, it needs some profound definitions, which I don't see. Since we know that God is and can be represented as Jesus, we can accept that this is Jesus walking in the garden. This is a Theophany - a direct manifestation of God to the physical senses. (Vincent's Word Studies.)

1. Consider Genesis 16, where Sarai had pushed Hagar and her son by Abram into the wilderness. God, represented as the angel of the Lord, came to Hagar and comforted her.

   “Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.” Genesis 16:7 NASB

2. In Exodus chapter three, we see Moses, possibly having lost his confidence, tending to sheep when he sees the burning bush. Upon approaching the bush, he encounters the angel of the Lord.

   “Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:1-2 NASB

In the Old Testament, there are over 40 instances of the angel of the Lord declaring God's physicality, in the visible form of the Son/Jesus, to convey a message to people on earth.

I will leave you with this to ruminate upon.