Jesus the God who speaks

The high christology of 1 Peter has God not only speaking about or through Jesus, but in Christ we see the God who speaks. 1 Peter speaks of the ‘Spirit of Christ’ in the prophets making predictions of his own suffering and consequent glories.(1:11) The predictions of the prophets are then connected to the preaching of the gospel by the Holy Spirit.(1:12) While these verses are not a full exploration of the pre-existent nature of Christ and his involvement in creation 11, along with 1:20 they touch on some temporal existence of Christ before his earthly life . The concept of pre-existence is not developed further, possibly because the writer of 1 Peter has no interest in it. Of far more importance to the question of high christology is the association of Jesus with the Holy spirit in God’s word. In this passage Jesus is seen not only as the object of God’s proclamation (1:12), nor simply
the indirect object through whom the word of God comes. In 1 Peter 1:11 Christ is shown as the divine power behind the proclamation. Through association with Jesus Christ, even the readers speech may be considered the word of God (4:10-11)
‘Reference to the Spirit further serves to show that the announcement that the events had taken place had the same divine power behind it as did the foretelling of those events, with the implication that as a result, those events not only are securely in divine hands and reflect the divine intention but also reflect the activity of the pre incarnate Christ.(Paul Achtemeier
The high christology of 1 Peter presents Jesus not only as an object of God’s word and action, or an agent through whom God works, but as God himself speaking through the prophets and living that which he predicts.