Who is Colossians 1:14 referring to?
Colossians 1:14 refers to God the Son and His redeeming blood. The passage in Colossians 1 beginning at verse 15 is identified as referring to God the Son, and verse 14 is tied to the redeeming blood. This identifies the subject as God the Son within the Godhead.
Les explains that Colossians 1, beginning at verse 15, is referring to God the Son and the redeeming blood in verse 14. He ties this into the earlier point that the Godhead is the invisible spirit out of which God the Son stepped and became visible. Les notes that God the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, pre-eternal in His existence just like God the Father and God the Spirit. Verses 16-17 present Him as the Creator and sustainer of all things, and He is the Head of the Body, the Church, the firstborn from the dead, with pre-eminence and fullness dwelling in Him.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: