God’s Founding Principle
God’s wisdom is the foundation upon which all God’s plans are built. His intent is to build a house for Him to abide in. This house is the body of Christ and is built and held together by Love (Ephesians 4:16). Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:19-22).
This habitation of God has a blueprint which is found in Proverbs 24:3-4; Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Wisdom, understanding and knowledge are principles given by God for the assembling of the saints into a temple wherein the Godhead can abide. Those not submitting to these principles remain in outer darkness.
The wisdom of God is given first because it is the foundation of the house. Even as Jesus Christ is the cornerstone which must be laid first, He is also the wisdom of God as stated in 1 Corinthians 1:24, “Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God,” and is the foundation along with the apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:20). Therefore to “hear and receive correction and instruction” is the foundation of any development initiated by God. Even creation adheres to instruction, as Proverbs 3:19 declares, The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it (Psalm 127:1). God, who is Love, is building a temple for His habitation. He is laying a foundation of wisdom, establishing the pillars by understanding and by knowledge is filling the chambers thereof with His nature. Thus, the Apostle Paul, being a wise master builder prayed according to the blueprint, that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding (Colossians 1:9).
The End of Nachash
Man’s wisdom (nachash) is corrupt due to the fear of death, “For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” It is the self preservation nature of man which spends all his resources in resistance to this outcome. In Genesis 3:14, God curses the serpent (man’s wisdom) saying, “Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” This sensual wisdom is motivated by it’s appetite to pursue the pleasures of this world unto the day of it’s destruction and death. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, WHOSE GOD IS THEIR BELLY, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things (Philippians 3:18-19). For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (Romans 16:18).
Nachash’s sole intent is to gratify and preserve itself. Therefore man manipulates, using his sense knowledge as a tool, with the serpent’s intent in mind. His self preservation mindset places himself over all others, even God. For man replaced God, who was his source of life, with himself. In Genesis 3:22 its recorded, “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.” This means that man became as God, or in other words, in place of God, for the purpose of knowing good and evil. This is as 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 records; …the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The temple of God is man, but man has usurped himself to that throne. This theme continues in 2 Thessalonians 2:9, Even him (son of perdition), whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. This is the working of nachash, the serpent, the wisdom of man, the foundation of the son of perdition which is the spirit of this world.
Yet, man’s opposition is used by God to prove His good will, during His acceptable will, unto the manifestation of His perfect will. The righteous saints of God pursue the Truth unto their transformation of His perfect will, and upon their transformation bring in His perfect will upon the ungodly. Even as Noah was perfect in his generation, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world that then was (Geneses 6:9 and 2 Peter 2:5).
While ungodly man through nachash (the wisdom of man) is working the coming of the son of perdition, the Father through Christ (wisdom of God) is working the coming of the sons of God. Both are maturing along side one another during the age of God’s acceptable will. Even as Jesus stated in Matthew 13:30, Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
When the fullness of Christ arises glorified within His saints, then there will be a standard present to judge the wisdom of man. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe (1 Corinthians 1:19-21).