Proverbs Chapter 8, Who Is It Really All About?
This is short for now…Please read Proverbs chapter 8 provided below. Wisdom is the theme, and “she” speaks truth and dwells with prudence. But we also know that Wisdom was there with God at the beginning of the creation of the Universe, and rejoicing always (daily) before God. Proverbs 3:19, “The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.” and Proverbs 8:30, “Then I was by him, as one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;” So there can be no doubt that Wisdom Is Jesus, and that Jesus Is Wisdom.
Note that it says that we can sin against wisdom and hurt our own souls (How can we do that)? And who hates wisdom? (We are told that it is those who hate God and in doing so they love death)
But please note in particular that Wisdom is presented to us as having a female gender, but Jesus is of the male gender, so how can we make sense of this? So please consider this when reading chapter 8…please read it carefully and prayerfully for yourself, and think as you read…Who is it all about? You will be blessed for doing so.
Note also how it is similar to and consistent with what we read in Proverbs 1:20-33, that begins with, “Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:”
PROVERBS 8
1Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Conclusion
If you have not figured it out already, Jesus Is Wisdom, because of what we read in 1 Corinthians 1:30, “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:” However, the Church is the Body of Christ. Jesus Christ is in His Church. Remember what we read in Colossians 1:27, “To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” The Church as the “Bride of Christ” is viewed in the context of being of the female gender. If the true Church is faithful, then it will faithfully be bringing Jesus and His Word, hence it will be declaring “Wisdom”.
To help with how we are to understand this, we need to go back to the beginning, in the Book of Genesis, hearkening back to creation, wherein we see the intimate relationship of Adam, the man, and Eve, taken out of the man and becoming the woman, foretelling and reflecting the eternal intimate relationship of Christ and His Church. Christ in us; we in Christ.
Genesis 2:22&23, “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. ¶And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.“
These symbiotic terms are found carefully described in Jesus’ prayer to God the Father in John 17:21-23, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.“
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