1 ¶ And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother,
and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister
unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 2 And thou shalt
make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. 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. 4 And these are the
garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a
broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s
office. 5 And they shall take gold, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
Consider the way spirit is
used in this context. The spirit of
wisdom is not a character trait. It is a gift from God. He has filled
certain people in regard to the ability to create these garments for the
priests with the spirit of wisdom. This
is distinct from the Holy Spirit (Luke
11:13) or the Spirit of Christ (1Peter 1:11)
or the Spirit of God (Genesis
1:2), all the same Spirit emanating from God, which the translators under the inspiration given to them by God
showed us with a capital S each to
signify the origin of that Spirit. The
Spirit, uppercase S, is an entity with a will emanating from
God the Father’s will while the spirit,
lowercase s, is a thing either given
to man or woman.
Numbers 5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy
cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman
before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
A lowercase s signifies
a power, an understanding, a skill, an emotion, or some other sense of understanding
and wisdom.
Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
It is interesting that some neuroscientists speculate that
consciousness doesn’t seem to emanate from within a person but that a person’s
mind is like a cellphone that receives a communication from somewhere else. We
can hear someone speaking through the phone but they are not in the phone.
Of course, they don’t believe that there is a world of spirit from
where consciousness comes. But having no satisfactory explanation of why we are
self-aware anymore than a theoretical physicist can logically explain why there
is something rather than nothing or an evolutionary biologist can show why such
a complex thing as life should exist rather than just rocks and dust without
inventing their own gods, dead and inert, but prime causes beyond our experience
nonetheless, they consider consciousness as something that uses the brain,
rather than something the brain creates.
Of course, there are many theories of consciousness. Many believe
that our thoughts are the results of neurons in the brain firing up but they
can’t tell you whether a thought requires ten neurons or ten thousand. Its all
guesswork right now. However, these theoretical scientists have faith in their
religion that all truth will eventually come from their inquiries.
Nevertheless, our rapid
explosion of actual scientific knowledge since this Bible was translated in the
early 17th century and the resultant technological advancements
where in the last century we have been propelled forward faster than in all
previous centuries combined is not because of extra radiation in the atmosphere
or the superiority of modern man’s brain.
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding has been given to us. We
learn how to appropriate it and use it but we did not create it.
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