Genesis 1:2 – The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
​The world was nothing and then became something. However, Jesus is everything and then became nothing.
​Philippians 2:7 NIV – rather, He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Jesus, just a few cells big in Mary’s womb, resembled the earth as He was formless, yet unlike the earth He was not void. The fullness ofGod dwells at the molecular level in the Son!
​Colossians 1:19 – For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.
​Conversely, when Elohim was dangling from a tree, He became what no man ever thought God would become; formless and void of all life.
In Genesis 1:2, the hebrew words used for ‘form’ and ‘void’ are ‘tohu’ and ‘bohu’.
Tohu means: to lie waste, an empty chaos, a desolation, or a worthless thing.
Bohu means: emptiness, void, waste, or an undistinguishable ruin
Isaiah 52:14 – His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the children of mankind.
​Jesus was brutalized so badly, at one point He would have looked like the earth at the beginning of creation; formless and void.
​John 19:30 – When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished,” and He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit.