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Job 36:26
26 Behold, God ['el] is great [saggiy'], and we know [yada`] him not, neither can the number [micpar] of his years [shaneh] be searched out [cheqer]. KJV-Interlinear
26 'Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable. NASB
Great, means vast, infinite, beyond comprehension. These are the boundaries of God, which are no boundaries.
God is so vast in His essence, that humanity, or any form of creation, can never possibly discover all that there is to God.
Moses will approach a burning bush and there will learn the name given from Him, 'I Am,' which means simply, 'infinite resource.'
But long before Moses, perhaps a thousand years prior, Elihu understood this concept. God is infinite.
God never had a beginning. There was never a time when God did not exist. God did not advance through generations. God has no succession.
And by the way, we are referring to all three members of the Godhead - Father, Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. Christ is the only visible member of the Godhead, and through seeing Christ, we see all three members, even though they are three separate persons.
Our access to God, through Christ, makes it possible for God to establish a plan for humanity, which rules out all of mans invented religions, beliefs, philosophies, etc. This plan, Christ, is the 'big' stumbling block for all other beliefs.
Jesus (the deity), was never born. He has always existed. But Jesus (the humanity), was born into our midst, so that we could all be saved, and certainly come to know Him (Them, God), better.
The infinite past is a concept we can never comprehend. How can there not be a beginning? If there was a beginning, then how would you explain the moment prior to that beginning and the moment prior to that one and so forth? How do we get to now, if the beginning never began?
Take that one to bed with you tonight! But here we are.
And here is a part of Elihu's point. How can we evaluate God, when we cannot even comprehend Him, when we have not been around as long as He has, when we know so little about history, when we cannot even control the simplest of things within our own generation?
Our few years, compared to Gods eternity. What is there to compare? Our efforts to end world hunger, disease, death, compared to Gods sustaining human history when history should have ended numerous times over - in the Garden, at the Flood, at many times in history when famine, and, war and so forth struck. But then, should we realize that it was never our efforts that have sustained us, but Gods gracious support for all of humanity?
