Preeminent

He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 

Col 1.18b

The beginning.

Hard to put a finger on that since eternity has no beginning, but I will let sleeping dogs lie and move on to my next incognito.

He is the firstborn from the dead.

Does that mean He lived and died and lived again before the two E-prophets’ boys, before Elisha’s funeral hit the skids, before the Valley of the Dry Bones became reinhabited with people with skins?

 Did He live and die and resurrect before the young man from Nain, prior to Jairus’ “Talita”, and before ole Lazzy “stinketh”?

Or does it not have to do with chronology but with importance?

“He’s #1 in relevance on the list of everyone who has ever come alive again.”

That would fit in well with the last word of the verse...

He is preeminent.