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Job 28:26-27
26 When he made [`asah] a decree [choq] for the rain [matar], and a way [derek] for the lightning [chaziyz] of the thunder [qowl]:
27 Then did he see [ra'ah] it, and declare [caphar] it; he prepared [kuwn] it, yea, and searched it out [chaqar]. KJV-Interlinear
26 When He set a limit for the rain, And a course for the thunderbolt, 27 Then He saw it and declared it; He established it and also searched it out. NASB
God weighed out a portion for the winds as a chef would measure out potions in a recipe. God measured out a balance for the oceans.
God established limits and times for the rains. He placed the rains not too much in some places and monsoons in others.
God has even set the course for lightning. Job no doubt watched many storms, and noticed that the lightning crackled across the sky with regularity. But not knowing the positive and negative ion concepts, he surmised that the lightning has its cause and its course predetermined, not by some chance, not by some haphazard methodology, but by the pre-design of God.
But God established these things, after first declaring them, after preparing them, after searching them out.
And so we have the concept of the Devine Decrees.
God in eternity past, considered all aspects of creation. He searched them out, considered them all. God viewed them all in their possible and natural historic settings right down to the last event of a given sequence.
God considered all possible historical sequences, including both the living and the non-living. And then, when He came upon the one best possible sequence for history, for both living and non-living, He selected that one possible historical sequence, and He declared it, and placed it into the reality of its actual occurrence.
All other possibilities were simply considerations foreseen, but never set into motion.
We are now living that selected historical sequence. Job knew and understood the Divine Decrees. Job knew of and understood that all things whether living or not, functioned in accordance with God design and plan.
All things in existence function by laws established by God. All of these laws are a part of truth.
Man can either discover them and learn their functions and relationships and then interpret them correctly, or not.
The same goes with wisdom. God is the source of wisdom. God is the only authority. Man can neither invent anything new, nor declare a new thing into exist.
Prov. 8:27
27 'When He established the heavens, I was there, NASB
When God established the universe, 'I,' wisdom, was there before it, and was a part of its coming into existence.
The word for decree, 'choq,' means a statute, a law, a rule, which cannot be altered.
Just as the laws of physics and such, in this universe cannot be changed, so too, history as decreed by God, cannot be changed.
God looked down through history and established the dispensations. He saw all of your thoughts, decisions and actions, and made provisions accordingly. He did not coerce your thoughts, but left your free will choices alone, but still He saw what you would freely choose to do or not do in life.
God saw all of the possible and actual interactions between man and nature, including the date and moment of your birth insertion into history, and made provisions accordingly.
There is nothing in life nor in history that God did not foresee, nor provide for. Whether the atomic bomb, or global climate changes, things real or things imagined, or mans negative spiritual volition (mans greatest danger) toward Him, makes no difference. Nothing takes God by surprise, and nothing will take the mature believer by surprise.
However, the negative believer or unbeliever will constantly be surprised, perplexed, and frustrated by life and history, because they have no control over anything, while all the while trying to establish their own rules and laws for life and for history. See the 'Winds of History' chart.
And, despite mans innovation, ingenuity, discoveries and inventions in government, technology or philosophy, man will never, on his own, discover wisdom … until the moment of his death.
Don't be like most everyone else - naïve and opinionated to the end of your life.
