Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                           Proverbs 16:4 (KJB) to be continued

God created "all things" for His own glory and for His own pleasure. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). Since God is Holy, He can create only good systems. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God's Intellect is Almighty and Omniscient. Psalm 147:5 (KJB). Being Pure and Holy, God knows only an infinite set of ideas that He can use to create good systems. But being Pure, God is also wholly innocent. Habakukk 1:12-13 (KJB). Being wholly innocent, God knew nothing about evil until Lucifer's rebellion. Ezekiel 28:15 (KJB). This verse seems to indicate that God was shocked when He discovered that Lucifer had suddenly become evil. The fact that God knew nothing about evil until Lucifer's rebellion does not impinge at all on God's Omniscience. God possesses an infinite knowledge of only all that is good and creative. Evil is wholly destructive. Evil seeks to destroy God and all of His creations. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB).

After Lucifer's rebellion, God began to investigate to find out from where evil came and how it got started. God discovered that He, in all innosence, had actually accidentally created evil. Isaiah 45:7 (KJB). God created the light, but He also created darkness. That darkness happened to be the hiding place for all evil. But God did not know that. When God created the universe, life, and all good systems in it, He did not know that He had also created a void which is the opposite of creation. God could not have known about this void because, in some strange way, nothing can be known about it except that it seeks to be wholly destructive of God's creations. God knows only about how to be creative, not destructive. Evil is a mystery to all creative and positive consciousnesses, including God's. II Thessalonians 2:7 (KJB).

Since evil seeks to destroy all of creation, it seeks to destroy knowledge itself. It is a kind of anti-knowledge. For this reason, nothing can really be known about it except that its effects on positive creation is wholly destructive. Because it seeks to be destructive, this void can somehow engender destructive forces. It may cause the force of gravity which seeks to crush all matter out of existence. It can also form destructive, negative consciousnesses that the Bible calls devils. Luke 8:30 (KJB). But Jesus proved that He holds all power over all destructive forces when He cast a legion of devils out of the maniac of Gadara. Luke 8:26-39 (KJB).

When Lucifer rebelled, God took immediate control of the situation. God used His fiery wrath against evil to strip all of the good elements that He had put into Lucifer's system from him, and He exiled him to earth as a wholly negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Because God is Almighty, He took immediate control over all evil when Lucifer rebelled. When God destroyed Lucifer's system, God learned that He could use the idea of destruction in creative ways. God may have used the destructive force of gravity to coalesce matter into stars and galaxies when He created the universe. All through the Bible, God often used destructive forces to eventually form good systems.