John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the world. He walked in Eden with Adam, and Enoch walked with Him. He visited Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, making great promises to them. He dwelt in the Shekinah Glory of the Tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel. All things were made by Him, and the world was made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. With Him as the Architect, the world must have been a lovely and beautiful place in the beginning, for in the beginning, He, as Elohim, created The Heavens and The Earth. They were not created in vain or empty but to be inhabited. But sin entered, and with sin came selfishness and personal ambition, and the world knew Him not. They wilfully did not choose to know Him or acknowledge Him is the meaning of these words. They trusted in their own wisdom and became fools. They worshiped the man and then descended the scale till they were bowing down to beetles and bugs and other creeping things, even the serpent. There is only one end for the creature who will not recognize his Creator.
He came unto His own possessions, the land that was promised to Father Abraham, the throne promised to the Seed of David, the Messiahship of Israel. So it was His Own things that He came to take over. The Heir came expecting to be recognized by all the signs and wonders He performed. This coming was The Mystery of Godliness. It was His incarnation in which He dwelt or tabernacled with men, and His own received Him not. His own people, Israel, had no room for Him at the inn in Bethlehem. Neither did they have room for Him in their religion, Temple, or synagogue. Israel did not know the day of her visitation: For centuries, they had looked for the Messiah but were so busy with their own religion that they could not recognize Him when He came in the fulness of time, the time prophesied.
He made it so as many as are willing can come, reaching outside of Israel to whosoever is that scope, and a wide scope this is as no door had ever been opened so wide as this. The Salvation of God is now sent to the Gentiles, for Israel had failed and has been set aside. This caused Israel to become Lo-Ammi meaning 'Not My People', so they became foreigners or Gentiles. With Israel now being Gentiles also now all could be received and accepted in the Beloved, not in Abraham as was done before and during Acts.
He had come unto His own people to save them from their sins so that they might fulfill the commission given them in the wilderness, but they would have none of it, and finally, at Acts 28:28 were set aside, Salvation was taken from them and sent to the Gentiles. And to them, He gave the power to become the children of God. Israel were sons; now there are other children, and some of them can become sons (Eph 1:5). This is The Adoption. So a right, an authority, a power, is given, even to those that believe in His Name. Believing in His name is equivalent to, or a fuller explanation of what is meant by receiving Him. The name was Elohim in Gen 1:1; The Word in John is God manifest in flesh. But Jehovah Elyon (Psalms 7:17), Jehovah the Most High God , is the name that is above every name (Phil. 2:9).
