Exodus
28:1 ¶ 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 just 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 God in operation with a 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, neuroscientists
don’t necessarily believe that there is a world of spirit from where
consciousness comes. But having no satisfactory explanation of why we are
self-aware any more 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. It’s 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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