TYMK - The glory/mystery of God is his wisdom
This has been a hard note to write because the concept is so different from what most people think. Wisdom is characterized by the proper application of knowledge, and certainly we are supposed to apply what we understand. But that is the second half of wisdom. The first half is that you must understand.
When Jeremiah says he sees a day when all men will be pregnant [1], how can you apply that if you don't understand it?
The Glory of God is that he is himself. The glory of God is that he is the invisible God and makes himself known as God through the mystery which was hidden from the beginning. [2]
This mystery is also called the wisdom of God. [3]
He gave the spirit of wisdom to Aaron's tailors so that as they made the garments they would have riddles embedded in them. [4]
He gave Bezaleel the same wisdom to put hidden mysteries in the gold and silver works of the temple. [5]
Each work where God called men and women to produce things for the temple were given the spirit of wisdom or were wise-hearted.
The wisdom of God is the riddles by which he makes known that he has been involved in his creation from the beginning.
Wisdom is the teaching of the cross
If the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, it is wisdom to those who are not. [6] And the cross is the key to understanding the riddles/wisdom of God. [7] Jesus showed his disciples the pictures of the cross in the Old Testament as the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven; the keys to wisdom.
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References
- ↑ Jer 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
- ↑ Eph 3:9 And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
- ↑ 1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
- ↑ Ex 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- ↑ Ex 31:3 and I fill him [with] the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,
- ↑ 1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- ↑ Mt 16:21 ¶ From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
