:[[Ge 1:1 ]] Before 'heaven' and before 'earth' is the word את which goes untranslated. It is the first and last letters of the alphabet. When Jesus is called the Alpha and Omega in Greek, it is equivalent to את . Here it indicates that God created everything in the heavens and on earth. Not only at that instant, but in all time as well; all space and all time.

:[[Col 1:17 ]] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

==Heaven [[שמים]]==

:ש - The principle metaphor of the shin is that God's word did not return void. As such it can refer to the Spirit which gives his word life, or the man (Christ) and his bride returning to God.

:מ - The normal form of the mem is made up of a kaf כ representing the Son of God, and a zayin ז representing his bride. They are joined on the upper horizontal representing that the marriage covenant was declared by the Father. The Father chose the bride for the son.

:ם - When the mem is at the end of a word it is found in this final form. Now the Son and the bride are joined on the lower horizontal representing that the marriage is completed by the Son. The natural mem and the final mem are the same letter ("The Father and I are one") and the final form is the earthly representation of the heavenly form. Christ is the physical manifestation of the Father ("If you have seen me, you have seen the Father").

:י - The yud is the first thought God had of creation. It is the first void he created for creation. When drawing any other letter, you begin by drawing a yud, so all the letters proceed from the yud. All words are made of letters, and everything God created, he spoke into existence using words. The tiniest letter, yud, represents all of creation, or the creator in it's primary metaphor.

We are unaccustomed to thinking and speaking in metaphor. We saw earlier that the aleph [[א ]] represents "God spoke and created the heavens and the earth". It is drawn with a diagonal vav and two yuds. Each yud in the aleph represents either the heavens or the earth. Yet the yud represents all of creation. From this we discern that when two things are used together, they represent two aspects of one thing.

John said that there are three in heaven who testify. The three consonant of shamim 'heaven' [[שמים ]] represent the Spirit, Father and Son.

If shamim is divided ש - מים then the Spirit ש hovers over the waters [[מים]].[[מי ]] - is the water above, [[ים ]] is the water below. Together [[מים ]] is plural 'waters'.

Without the yud [[י ]] there is desloation [[מם]]. The Father and Son with creation is the waters [[מים]].

Greeks wonder where the water came from. It appears that the waters are the creation as wrapped in the Father and Son. It can be observed that the Father is Spirit ([[Joh 4:24]]) and the Son is Truth ([[Joh 14.6]]). Jesus told the woman at Sychar that men worshiped on the mountain but would soon worship in Spirit and Truth. This is a parallel passage to the parable of the mustard seed where the mountain will be moved to the sea (waters [[מים]]). He said that creation would be in the heart of the Father and the Son, the Spirit and the Truth.