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Job 37:15
15 Dost thou know [yada`] when God ['elowahh] disposed [suwm] them, and caused the light ['owr] of his cloud [`anan] to shine [yapha`]? KJV-Interlinear
15 'Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine? NASB
In ancient times, the details of science were not a part of their vocabulary or knowledge base. So, Elihu's question of how God makes all of these things - the cold, the heat, the rain, the storm, the freezing of rivers and such, was a question that no person could know the answer to.
But Elihu's question goes beyond the science. What he is really asking, is, 'Do you know how God arranges and governs all of these things?'
We may know the science, or certainly more of the science than Elihu's generation knew, but not one of, nor will any of, humanities future generations, will know of or understand the workings of Gods will or of Gods ability to execute His will.
God owns the world. God owns the universe. God owns Heaven. And that includes everything that exists.
Psa. 24:1
24 The earth is the Lord's, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. NASB
God foreknew of everything that will ever happen in history. That includes all of your individual thoughts. And as history unfolds, He executes the actions for history, at least from His aspect of the controls of history.
This includes the actions and thoughts of every human being, the actions of every component of our planet, the actions of everything in outer space such as solar activity, this includes everything. There is nothing excluded from Gods knowledge.
Knowing people, their relationships, their circumstances, their environment, their interactions, motivations and so forth, and with Gods sovereign will for placing each person into history at a time that is convenient to Him, with Gods sovereign oversight of all aspects of the weather, continental movement, the functions of daylight and night, then there is nothing that God cannot accomplish.
And though every aspect of life, individually, may be simple, the sheer aspect of combining every thought, interaction, action, circumstance and so forth, makes the activities of life so complex, that man will never be able to duplicate or even monitor even a small portion.
Theories may abound regarding the start of the universe, but they are only theories. There is only one set of eyewitnesses in eternity past, and that is God and the angels. Man was not there.
In his arrogance man tried to build a tower to heaven. That of course failed. But through knowledge and discovery, man is still trying to build a tower to heaven. That will fail too. As man tries to look to the edge of the universe, we will discover that the edge is further still. As man tries to peer deeper into science, we will discover that the sciences are deeper still. Can we see or detect angels? Can we see or isolate or transfer human life? No.
