God’s Wisdom in Mystery

 

God’s Wisdom in Mystery

 

1 Corinthians 2:6-9“But we speak wisdom among those who are mature, not the wisdom of this world, nor the wisdom of the rulers of this world which is perishing; but the wisdom of God in mystery, which has been hidden, which God ordained before the ages for our glory. This wisdom (eis doxan hemon) none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. As it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no mind has conceived is prepared for those who love God.’”

Wisdom refers not to the wisdom of the world, but to the wisdom of God, and it is said to be what God established before the creation of the world. It is a hidden secret, but revelation is made known as the Ho Logos, who is the Word, dwells within the hearts of the saints. Eis doxan hemon (εἰς δόξαν ἡμῶν) signifies the establishment of the Kingdom of God on this earth. The Ho Logos, who dwells within the hearts of the saints, signifies that the Kingdom of God has been established on this earth.

Regarding what God ordained before the foundation of the world, looking at Ephesians 1:3-5, it states, "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, by choosing us in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in His sight in love, having predestined us according to His good pleasure to be His sons through Jesus Christ." It was planned before the foundation of the world that the saints become the sons of God in Christ.

Therefore, just as God the Father predestined Christ, and God Himself became the first man and the body of sin to share that body of sin with people, and the last man, Jesus Christ, died on the cross for that body of sin, and just as God resurrected Christ because the saints died on the cross united with Jesus, He gives the saints a spiritual body to resurrect them to their former state, making them spiritually sons of God.

This is what is meant by a secret. A secret is something that no one knows, but the revelation of that secret becomes a revelation. Ephesians 5:31-32: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh (sarka). This mystery is great, as I speak concerning Christ and the church."

Man signifies one who has departed from God the Father (Christ who came into the world). Wife signifies spirits who have departed from God and are confined in the world. These spirits enter into Christ and become spiritually one. Thus, the saint becomes a son of God. The reason God created husband and wife is to convey that you are all beings who have departed from God, yet you are beings who must become one with God again through Christ. Therefore, the family becomes the foundation of the church community. Here, too, *sarka* (σάρκα) does not mean the flesh, but the flesh (the spiritual body). This is what God planned before the creation of the world.

If it were simply about husband and wife, it would not be a secret. However, the great secret is the relationship between Christ and the Church (the temple that dwells within the hearts of the saints). It is the fact that those who are in Christ become a temple within their hearts where the Logos dwells. This is the secret.

"It is written, 'What God has prepared for those who love him, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has conceived.'" The phrase "what is written" refers to the words of the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.

Isaiah 64:1-4 “May You split the heavens and come down, and may the mountains tremble before You as fire consumes brushwood and as fire boils water; may Your enemies know Your name, and may the nations tremble before You. For the mountains trembled before You when You came and did fearful things which we did not imagine. For no God of old has heard, nor has anyone heard with an ear, nor seen with an eye, except You, who has done such things for those who wait on Him.”

The people of Judah wept greatly by the various rivers while in captivity in Babylon. Thinking they would never play the harp again, they hung it on a willow tree. Nevertheless, God did not restore them immediately but waited until the appointed time. At that time, the people of Judah must have earnestly hoped that God would descend so that the mountains would tremble. This passage testifies to what will happen when God descends. It particularly emphasizes fire. Even when God called Moses, He was present in the midst of the fire burning in the bush.

The greatest characteristic of fire is that it burns. Anything that catches fire vanishes without a trace. Water controls that fire, but even water dries up before powerful fire. I pray that God, who is as strong as fire, will be present, so that the Gentiles and the enemies may know who God is and tremble before Him.

This is a recollection of the event when God descended upon Mount Sinai while the Israelites were staying in the wilderness of Sinai. It confesses that at that time, God performed fearful deeds that the Israelites had not anticipated. "Not anticipated" means that they did not expect it. Just as God revealed His divinity by working in unexpected ways in the past, the prayer is for Him to work in the same way now.

In the New Testament, the presence of God manifesting in the hearts of believers involves such amazing works taking place. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 clearly describes the presence of the Logos in the heart: "For we tell you this by the word of the Lord: that those who are still alive and remain until His coming (parousian) will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God (katabesetai); and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words."

The term *parousian* (παρουσίαν, presence), translated as "coming" in Chapter 4, Verse 15, and *katabesetai* (second coming), the coming in Chapter 4, Verse 16, have different meanings. Therefore, at the time of Jesus' second coming, the pioneers of faith who existed before Christ will rise first, and subsequently, the saints will also become the Kingdom of God in spiritual bodies through Jesus' second coming.

Christ has already returned and entered into the saints. Thus, they become a temple and the Kingdom of God. Thus, they become *parousian*. Christ entering into the saints is *katabesetai*, and thus a temple is established within the saints' hearts, and He dwells (*parousian*) within them. Those who do not believe that Christ's second coming has already taken place in the saints will face the second coming of judgment.

Saints living in the present experience the death of their former selves and are transformed into a spiritual body, receiving the Logos (Parousian [παρουσίαν], the presence). In 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, the Apostle Paul speaks of the spiritual body: "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye—at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed." This speaks of the spiritual body. Transformation does not mean that the physical body suddenly converts into a spiritual body, but rather that the former self dies and one is born from heaven into a spiritual body. It means that the physical body dies with Jesus Christ and one is born again into a spiritual body through the power of the Holy Spirit.