The verse distinguishes "the creation of God" from the "beginning" (archē) of it. The verse never states that Jesus is within the same category of "the creation of God" but is the archē of it. It never states Jesus was created "by" God or is a creation of God. That would be changing the words of John which the Jehovah's Witness Bible attempts to do by adding the word "by". The interpretation that Jesus is the "first created" by God is exaggerated and suspicious at best and diminishes the Person of Christ. The title is meant to EXALT and GLORIFY Christ as authoritative over the Church. The term archē is translated many times in the NT as ruler, domain, principality etc. (e.g. see Jude 1:6, Luke 20:20, Eph 3:10). BDAG's Greek lexicon even defines it as "the first cause" in Revelation 3:14 and the NET Bible goes with this by translating it "originator". This honors Christ as supreme but the other interpretation dishonors and shrinks Him into a creature. There is an infinite chasm between the Creator and created. If Jesus is a created being, He is limited and therefore infinitely inferior to God. What comparison can even be made between a limited being and the Infinite One? God would be infinitely greater than Christ even if Christ was the most powerful, most glorious first creation of God. The Bible verses that say Jesus is the image of the invisible God, His "exact representation", to see Him is to see the Father etc. would therefore become meaningless under this false Christology.

The same John who wrote Revelation 3:14 also wrote that Jesus is "the Word [who] was God" and Creator (John 1:1-3) with zero point of origin compared to "all things" (v.3), John the Baptist (v.6), the children of God (v.12), the world (v.10), the flesh the Word became (v.14) and even "grace and truth" (v.17). He used the term "ginomai" (became, made) for all these things but was careful to NEVER use it for the Word and Light who came into the world and created the world (John 1:10). The JW and Arian interpretation of Revelation 3:14 would have John's high Christology contradict itself. John doesn't fight with John. The same Revelation identifies Jesus as God Almighty worshiped by every created thing (Rev 3:19, Pro 3:21, Rev 5:12-14, 22:8-9, 1:8, 17-18, 22:13) therefore placing Him outside the category of "created thing" (see John 1:3).

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