PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars” (Proverbs 9:1 KJV).

Chapter nine is a shorter chapter, and it gets into two things. It contrasts two women. Two women, two houses, two ways, and two results. Of course, there is a good and a bad all the way through it. A good woman, a good house, a good way, and a good result. And conversely, there is a bad woman, a bad house, a bad way, and a bad result. The world, which claims not to be religious, is very religious. It uses wisdom that God calls sensuous and devilish. So, what you really see is a contrast between Christ and Antichrist. Chapter 9 has 18 verses, which is three sixes. In verse 13, the foolish woman shows up. The good woman in this chapter is Christ, or the church, while the bad woman is Mystery Babylon of Revelation chapter 17 which is the seat or vehicle of old number 13 himself, which is the devil of Revelation. The Bible tells us that he sits upon the woman.

In the Old Testament, it would be Israel through her synagogue and temple, in the New Testament it would be the church. Jesus said that He would build His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. You want wisdom—you’ll have to get in the church. You not only need to get into the Body of Christ, but you also need to be in the local, New Testament church which God has set up with pastors and teachers in order to edify you and to perfect you, according to Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11. Without that, there will be no real wisdom.

You may claim to be smart, but First Corinthians says, “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” The way to wisdom is to become a fool. Realize that we do not know anything, but that God knows everything—so we go to Him.

See, there is one woman. “Wisdom hath builded HER house.” Wisdom is shown in the personification of a woman. Well, Christ is one with His bride. Christ’s bride is female—we are His bride—so, we are one with Him. “SHE hath hewn out her seven pillars.” Now, I don’t know specifically what those seven pillars are, but there are all kinds of ‘seven things’ in the Bible that the church stands on.

“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.”

There are seven spirits in Isaiah 11 verse 2. And those spirits are all connected with the Spirit of God. One of them IS the Spirit of God, and I guarantee you—if you are in the right house, God’s house—there is going to be something connected with the Spirit of God and those seven spirits: Instruction, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might, Knowledge, and fear. Revelation 5 calls them the seven eyes of God. The church is built on those seven spirits.

Now that house is based on those things.

The Tabernacle had fourteen pillars—the number of deliverance. Seven is the number of divine completeness.

Now, wisdom has built her house. You can make it Israel as the house, the church as the house, the home as a house. Wise parents will build a house on seven pillars.

Now, one thing about it, a pillar is something strong. They hold something up, keep it from falling. And that pictures something very strong. Those old antebellum houses down south had all those pillars across the front. That was to depict strength, endurance, and quality. And so that is what the indication here it.

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