NOW YOU KNOW THE UNSEEN

NOW YOU KNOW THE UNSEEN

Previously, I wrote about knowing that the faithful knew science before the those of the Enlightenment. In other words, divine wisdom preceded and superseded scientific knowledge. Little things in a big universe was first hypothesized in the early 1800s, initially by Max Planck, and mostly by Albert Einstein. Recently, Mikao Kaku has added to the knowledge of little things; how little things move in a “string” with its own quantum gravity. God made all the big things of little things. Everything seen is made of things unseen. Does that sound familiar?
  The apostle Paul understood science when he made comments (key verses) such as, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1), and “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (Heb 11:3). Why is that? “For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18).
  Understanding the profundity of Paul’s knowledge blew me away! Paul knew the things that Job learned from the test of his faith. In the Tribulations of Job, nowhere is faith mentioned at all, but most agree that God was setting up a test of faith for Job. Job had the characteristics of one who was faithful in that God said of Job, “(he) is a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” (Job 1:8). Job had three things commendable to God: His works were there, he feared God, and he despised evil. We learn later that Job says he trusted the Lord:

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. (Job 13:14-16). 

  That “trust” in the Lord seems to be by Job’s own efforts. Job showed God how much he trusted Him by what he did. By the way, “faith” is not mentioned at all in the chapter on Job and neither is faith associated with Job, but I, as do most students of scripture, understand the Book of Job as a test of faith.
  Job trusted in the Lord for one thing: for his maintenance, or call it his “salvation.” That is the same “trust” that Christians have to this day. But did Job truly have faith in God? Do all “Christians” truly have faith in God? True Christians must believe that God is truly “God.” What makes a god? The power to create and maintain all existence (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). It seems that Job allowed that God maintained existence (salvation, or regeneration as it is called), but no mention was made that Job truly believed that God was the Ultimate Existence; that is to say, The Supreme Being,” (The Great I AM or truly Yahweh).
  What I am getting to is that Job was much like many Christians today; they believe God can save, but disbelief or fail to understand that God CREATED!
  In the key verses, I always understood that “things unseen” were Heaven, God, and the angels. Of course, God, in Job’s day, was the Ultimate Unseen Being, and unseen angels were part of the unseen realm of Heaven. Was Paul writing about more than the heavenly kingdom? God’s response to Job’s trials points toward a deeper meaning! Paul believed strongly in God the Creator. He indicated that in the key verses and validated it to the Colossians when he wrote, “And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist” (Col 1:17).
  That statement is profound! Paul wrote that God is the beginning and sole Existence, and that He Created all things that exist. Paul announced the Equation of Specific Relativity; that energy and mass are different forms of the same “thing.” The “Thing” is God. Paul knew that, and knew that God Existed alone, and then by the power of His Holy Spirit, transformed His “goodness” into “good.” As the Master Craftsman, God’s virtue flowed from Him (Mat 6:19) to make everything entirely good (Gen 1:31).
  The “Energy” which flowed was virtuous – perfect and good. The Power of God is His Holy Spirit. Processes require catalysts to initiate the transformation of one substance into another. God’s “Energy” was transformed into existence of two types: material and the non-material – the seen and the unseen.
  I always think of the unseen in the Creation as the space or void in which things were placed. That is true, but there is more to it than that. In the process of creating, unseen matter flowed and conglomerated enough to become visible matter. Having faith in the unseen is essentially knowing God as the Creator! It appears that Job knew a protecting God but not a Creator God. None of his three philosophic friends were wise enough to explain the Creation. God did that Himself in Job 38. (More on that shortly.)
  The story of Job, therefore, is not one of protecting a man of faith, but a man who was willing to be protected. He did things to God’s satisfaction, and God appreciated that! On the other hand, Job didn’t seem to understand who God IS. I submit that is much like modern-day Christians; they want there to be a God, but don’t understand Him. They think that God can regenerate a new existence, but fail to understand that God generated the original existence! Many people often refer to God as you understand Him. People fail to understand God. Job didn’t understand God, until God explained Himself to Job, whereas all the philosophers missed the mark!
  God was the “Scientist” who Created everything, but who was His “hand” that drove the Process? John knew quite well, who the Catalyst is:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-2,14)

  In many places, scripture indicates that Jesus molded things. In effect, the hand of God (Jesus) took the unseen particles and made them into large objects, and Jesus made them from the virtue of the Holy Spirit. Not to be disrespectful, but the Holy Spirit is the “String” that created the big things from the small things! He (referring to the Holy Spirit) first took His own Power, made small things, and took the small things further in the processes and made them big things. God, by the hand of Jesus, made things unseen from things seen just as Paul said.
  Max Planck was not the first to understand that. We know that Paul did, but long before Paul, Job finally understood that truth! It was a tough process to persuade Job, but unlike Antipas Herod, Job was persuaded.
  In the beginning, Job had everything: material, health, friends, family, and even his idea of God. God generated all those things. It is possible that Job was maintained by God, but had no idea that it was Him who maintained the “world.” God used his fool to destroy all that Job had, even Job’s flesh, but then God regenerated Job, first spiritually, and then entirely. Job’s world was created, existed, destroyed, and re-created just as all of our existences shall be. Job’s life was one of genesis to a re-genesis just as Genesis to the Revelation, which is as well called, “Re-Genesis.”
  Before we go further, understand a few terms and ideas. “Deists” believe that God Created, but do not maintain what He Created. From the definition, their “Deo” is not Yahweh, who is the True God, and Creates and Maintains what He Created. Spinoza’s God, of whom Einstein and Kaku believe, is that same “Deo” who Created, but then abandoned His Creatures. They are very similar to Deists. On the other hand, modern-day Christians, and even Job, treat God as if He maintains (saves), but did not Create. Both “vocations” of God are necessary to be as God is defined. Ironically, Adam’s vocation was to dress and keep the Garden, which I prefer an alternate translation – to serve and preserve (Gen 2:15).
  Adam, or mankind, as the image of God, was to do what God does: serve (create) and preserve (maintain). “As God” means that Christians do not have the knowledge and wisdom of God, but the same responsibility to serve and preserve mankind. God serves men by creating and saving, but he also maintains faithful people by keeping them safe from the wiles of the Devil. That safety is the “hedge” that Satan knew that God had around Job (Job 1:10). Now examine what Job learned about God from the Voice whose Word is called Jesus (Job 38; NKJV):

I will question you, and you shall answer Me. (38:3b)

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements?

Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened?

Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together,

And all the sons of God shouted for joy? (38:4-7)

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth? (38:33)

Who can pour out the bottles of heaven? (38:37b)

When the dust hardens in clumps, and the clods cling together? (38:38)

  Job was not to question God! (v. 3b). In the Greek, the name Saul means “questioning.” Job means “he who returns” …perhaps from questioning. Indeed, the trials of Job left him questioning God and his three philosopher friends! God asked that rhetorically.  He already knew Job’s answers, and they would differ from His.
  Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Where was Job then? He certainly wasn’t creating! His soul was lingering there in oblivion waiting to be Created. “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephes 1:4). Well, Job was blameless: “Job… that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil” (Job 1:1). Job was planned before the foundation of the world. God would have a creature whom he could persuade!
  It was God who laid the foundation of the world, and not Job. None of Job’s handiwork was required to Create, and neither was it to Save. It is imperative to know that it is God who is Almighty. With that said, God must be elevated, and Job diminished.
  Then God asked, “Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements?” Job needed to know that. To revere God, believers must understand that God is God. Even the demons believe that and tremble (Jas 2:10). Well, God did the measuring.
  That was not a rhetorical question! God revealed that to Isaiah:

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has taught Him? (Isa 40:12-13)

  What is the answer to God’s question? God’s “Counselor” did that. Jesus is the mediator (counselor) with God, and it was him who measured and weighed the Creation.
  And the right answer, Job, is Jesus Christ. You should know that! The apostle John knew that (John 1); why did not you? Perhaps because John was His beloved; how about you?
  Jesus measured. As a Great Tradesmen, there was a reference from which to measure. Distance was measured from some data (plural of datum). “Who laid its cornerstone?” THE “Cornerstone.” Jesus the Tradesman laid the cornerstone of the foundation, as is written: “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone” (Psalm 118:22) and in Matthew 21:42 we find the Chief Stone or Cornerstone as Jesus.
  Bear with me as God did with Job. God was using His Word (Jesus) to explain how the Creation was superintended to persuade Job to recognize Jesus as Creator.
  God asked, “To what were its foundations fastened?” Pagans believe that Hercules holds up the world. His people are to believe that God holds up the foundation of the world, specifically Jesus. Again, Jesus as the Chief Stone holds up the foundation of the world.
  Did you not know that the world has a foundation stone? Yes indeed! It is a most Holy Place, was where God lived, and is now covered with a dome. The foundation stone lies beneath the Dome of the Rock. It is believed to be the foundation stone of the world, and the celestial axis of the universe. With that, it is the “navel of the world.” Why navel? It was where the Earth was born and it was Adam’s, or mankind’s, symbolic “navel.”
  Within that Foundation Stone there is a hole. It is the datum, perhaps, of the cosmos. It is where Jesus measured from! The celestial axis runs through it, and the celestial sphere is centered on it, and is the double dome or firmament between the world and the heavens.
  Then God asked, “Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?” “Ordinances” in this case is limits. Do you, Job, know about the cosmos and matter placed in it? (Here I take “earth” in the general form - as material.) It seems that God was asking if Job knew about particle physics, and string theory! I bet he did not, although the author, Moses, of Genesis did.
  God continues to question Job about the Creation: “Who can pour out the bottles of heaven?” The liquids separated in Genesis 1 was called “waters from the waters,” but specifically, the Hebrew means semen from semen. Semen consists of sperm in seminal fluid. It may be that refers to bosons and fermions separated by hadrons from the field of quantum mechanics. “What is that?” You ask? Quanta are objects with have both particles and waves. String Theory describes particle movement in the waves. Bosons are visible and fermions not, with hadrons conforming some to each, and separates the two.
  Those quanta are cosmic semen, perhaps. God poured them out from “the bottles of heaven.” The Great “Bottle” would be all of Existence Who preceded the pouring out of His Goodness! God’s living waters?
  God expounded upon the question: “When the dust hardens in clumps, and the clods cling together?” Particles in physics is possibly the cosmic “dust” of which the Word spoke. Process One – The First “Day” – was God generating the cosmic semen and the cosmic seminal fluid [i.e., the two types of particles – the visible (matter) and the invisible (anti-matter)].
  Later on, in the Fourth Process (Fourth “Day”), the particles were hardened, obviously from their liquid heated state, to states of equilibrium. And with that “clods,” or cosmic bodies were formed, and some continue to this day (era) in formation!
  God’s Energy in the processes was Light that was required to transform His Energy into matter. On the First “Day” the First Process was completed with the warming twisting to cooling (Gen 1:4) and the First Process was complete. All the quanta were generated for continuing the other processes.
  “Heaven,” or the Unseen, was completed in the Second Process of the Second “Day.” That wrapped up the production of the fermions, perhaps. The “firmament” or the celestial sphere, enclosed the place for the Earth (planet) at the end of that Process. Then preparation for generating the World was in the following Process on the Third “Day.”
  The “clump” called the “Earth” was the first heavenly body which was created, not from the Sun, but one process before that. Thus, the Zodiac is Earth-centered, and there is no evidence that planet Earth was ever part of the Sun around which it rotates? Why then would people worship the Sun when Earth came before it, and was heated by God’s energy without the need for another “clump” to do so?
  God spoke those things so that Job knew how the cosmos was Created. Why would God do that? So that mankind would someday understand that it was God who generated all things, and mankind only sought to discover the mystery of God. (Mikao Kaku just did discover that, and confirmed it with String Theory). With that said, Job and many of the other patriarchs knew String Theory before any others were ever enlightened. They also knew that the Creation is essential to salvation in that god’s both Create and Save, and it only takes one Real God to do that!
  Mankind was created to have dominion over the animals. Beasts have no need to understand the Creation because only men and women have God’s Spirit breathed unto their immortal souls. God shared with Job knowledge and understanding to make him wiser than ostriches.
  Using an ostrich as the example, God questioned Job, “Her labor is in vain, without concern, because God deprived her of wisdom, and did not endow her with understanding” (Job 39:16b-17).
  After explaining to Job that He Is Creator, He asked this question and gave His challenge: “Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it” (Job 40:2).
  It would have been arrogant for Job to contend with God by knowing more than God does. God revealed to Job how He generated the cosmos, and warned against contention with His knowledge. It was fair warning as brilliant men still contend with God about how it “evolved” and that existence required no Being to generate it. God, using reason and logic, persuaded that God is known by the Creation. That Great Plan is the icing on the cake, and all the philosophers in the world cannot change ultimate truth.
  Why did God use His time to persuade Job that He Is Creator God? Because God’s ability to maintain the Creation as god’s do, He must have Created it first. The Tradesman both creates objects then maintains them in use. If anyone goes to another to maintain what someone else made, then its maintenance would be sub-standard. The Perfect God made all things perfect (“very good” it says), and maintains all things to perfection who seek the Perfector!

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