I believe that we all can agree that God knows everything. But, did God always know everything, or did He have to learn everything before He could know it all. So, did God learn what He knows and if so, where did He learn it from or who did He learn it from?
Genesis 1:1 says: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Do we really understand what this verse is saying, or is it saying something besides what it appears to be saying? If we look at the Hebrew word “re'shiyth” that was translated into beginning, we find that it could mean something else. This Hebrew word could also be translated into the English words “the principle thing”. If it was, this verse in Genesis 1:1 would be read as follows: With the principle thing God created the heaven and the earth.
Now it stands to reason that God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning, before absolutely anything existed, so what would He think it necessary to even say that He did this in the beginning, when it’s obvious that it happened in the beginning, before anything was? Or, is God telling us something else here that He wants us to know? If God meant for this first verse to read that He created the heaven and the earth with “the principle thing”, then we should try to understand what this “principle thing” is.
Let’s look at Proverbs 4:7 and see what it says:
Proverbs 4:7 “Wisdom is the principle thing”.
Now if wisdom is the principle thing that God used to create the heavens and the earth, we should try to learn more about this principle thing called wisdom.
In the eighth chapter of Proverbs “Wisdom” speaks and tells us something about itself.
V12 “I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge”
V14 “Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.”
V15 “By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.”
V16 “By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.”
V22 “Jehovah our God possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.”
V23 “I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.”
V24 “When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.”
V25 “Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:”
V26 “While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.”
V27 “When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth”
V28 “When He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep:”
V29 “When He gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth:”
V30 “Then I was by Him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;”
Verse twelve starts off with “I wisdom” telling us that wisdom is speaking. Wisdom says that it was with God in the beginning, before the earth or the heavens ever existed. Because of wisdom everything fell in place just as God intended.
Jehovah our God existed before anything else was. He was all powerful and eternal with the ability to do whatever came to mind, but without the wisdom and understanding as to how to do whatever He wanted, He had to possess the wisdom to do it.
Ok, so wisdom was there with Jehovah and because of wisdom Jehovah was able to do all that was in His heart. Now the question comes as to where did wisdom come from?
In verses 24 and 25 wisdom proclaims that it was brought forth. To be brought forth Jehovah had to travail with pain, intense pain, agony and experienced labor pains such as in childbirth in order to bring forth wisdom. So wisdom was birthed by Jehovah in extreme agony to possess the trait He needed to accomplish the things He wanted to do. Without wisdom even Jehovah God was handicapped to an extent.
Now does this apply to mankind? Without wisdom man can accomplish nothing and man does not have the ability to bring forth or birth wisdom in order to accomplish those things he desires to do. So man must depend upon learning from God and other men in order to develop understanding which brings forth wisdom in their being.
God gave us the opportunity to obtain wisdom and understanding by sending His Word to us in the form of the Holy Bible. Understanding and wisdom can be developed by us through believing what the Bible says and not by man’s interpretation of it. God’s Word is the source of wisdom.
Study it, understand it and believe it, for the principle thing is wisdom for God and for mankind.
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