New topics on Message Bus

A message bus channel for a topic that was just created does not have any messages regarding the first post. However the last message id is not 0. Is this indented behavior?

For example the backlog for this topic is

[
    {
        "global_id": 272370861,
        "message_id": 2,
        "channel": "/topic/369717",
        "data": {
            "type": "localized",
            "id": 1791073
        }
    },
    {
        "global_id": 272370917,
        "message_id": 3,
        "channel": "/topic/369717",
        "data": {
            "type": "localized",
            "id": 1
        }
    },
    {
        "global_id": -1,
        "message_id": -1,
        "channel": "/__status",
        "data": {
            "/topic/369717": 3
        }
    }
]

Message with id of 1 (which I assume is the post creation message) is missing.