The Wisdom of Solomon – Chapter 10

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Wisdom Saves Adam, “She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall.”

Genesis 2-3, Adam, the first man, is formed from the earth and given the commandment not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. His transgression led to the fall of humanity, but it’s divine wisdom that preserved him by promising redemption through the future seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). This is the first prophecy of the Messiah, pointing to the fulfillment of salvation.

We know the “seed of the woman” is a prophecy of the coming of Moshiach Messiah – the true Wisdom that restores what was lost!

In Wisdom of Solomon 10, we’re gonna see the consistent theme of Wisdom as the divine force that brings salvation, redemption, and transformation through human history. The stories of Noah, Lot, Jacob, and others will show יהוה’s sovereign intervention in times of crisis. 

This vein is carried forward into the Brit Chadasha, where wisdom finds its fullest expression in Yahusha, who provides the ultimate salvation and deliverance to all who trust in Him and guides us through the crisis’s of life!

In a mystical sense then, the story of Wisdom aligns with the transformative process of spiritual purification, where the soul,  like gold, is refined in the fire, cleansed of impurities, and made fit for יהוה’s presence. 

The text’ll show us how wisdom not only plays a pivotal role salvivficly, but also acts as an eternal guide to us when in moments of crisis or danger, she offers deliverance from sin, danger, and destruction!

Wisdom will be shown to be the guiding force that actually prevents Adam’s complete destruction, which allowed for the promise of redemption to come, the promise of redemption to remain intact through future generations. 

Wisdom then, not only kept Adam alive but also paved the way for Messiah Yahusha just as it’s written in (Romans 5:12-14) where He would ultimately defeat sin and death:

Adam,Cain, Noah, Babel: 1 She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall, 2 and gave him power to rule all things. 3 But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother. 4 For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value. 5 Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto Elohim, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

The text moves onto to Noah and the Flood, a turning point in history where man’s wickedness had reached its peak. Wisdom – the guiding force, preserves the Noah. “Wisdom saved Noah”, instructing him to build the ark on “a little wood,” “a piece of wood of small value,” demonstrating, how divine guidance leads us through danger and destruction and saves those of us who heed her divine call. 

The ark becomes the image of the vessel of salvation, a vessel carrying the righteous through the waters of judgment. Paralleling the concept of Micvah, where the believer is saved through water, led by the wisdom of יהוה just as it’s written in 1 Peter 3:20. 

“Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of Elohim waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us…”  

In verse 6 we move into recounting Lot and Lot’s wife who, along with his family, were rescued by wisdom from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 

You see how Solomon is giving us more insight than that that is revealed in the Torah text alone?

The fire that fell on the Five Cities is an allegory of divine judgment on sin, while Lot’s wife, who became a pillar of salt for looking back, represents the peril of not committing to the path of deliverance and being double minded, or as Yahusha says, “setting you hand to the plow and then looking back”. 

Her being turned into a pillar of salt is as a warning of the consequences of lingering in disbelief and turning back to the past, just as Yahusha warned in Luke 17:32: “Remember Lot’s wife.”

Lot and Lot’s wife: 6 When the unelohimly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities. 7 Of whose wickedness, even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul. 8 For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid. 9 But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

Lot’s escape from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the best examples of divine judgment in Genesis 19. Lot and his family are rescued from the fire and brimstone because of the righteousness of Abraham and Lot’s own righteousness (Genesis 19:15-17).

The history continues with Jacob, whose life is a struggle but also the intervention of wisdom in that struggle.  

When Jacob fled from his brother Esau, it was actually wisdom who guided his journey, it was wisdom who preserved his life and provided him with enough courage to engage in a “night-long conflict” with the Malach of יהוה.  

Esau, Laban and Jacob: 10 When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath, she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of Elohim, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours. 11 In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich. 12 She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that elohimliness is stronger than all.

Jacob’s night struggle with the Malach (Genesis 32:24-30) is one of the most amazing examples of wrestling with the divine, where Jacob’s name is changed to Israel. This encounter represents our spiritual battle and our opportunity for a transformation of character.

Just like in Luke 22:31-32, where Yahusha speaks of Peter’s trial, just like Jacob’s, where the Peters faith would be tested but ultimately restored: “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.”

Joseph: 13 When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit, 14 and left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory. 15 She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.

Finally, Solomon reaches the Exodus, where again it’s wisdom who delivered Israel from the Egyptians. Moshe, though initially full of doubt, was carefully guided by wisdom to stand before Pharaoh and lead his people out of bondage and slavery. 

The “praising of thy holy name” after their deliverance from Egypt really is a mirror of us as believer’s and how we respond to salvation and guidance by worship and praise! 

Moshe and the Exodus: 16 She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs; 17 rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season; 18 brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water: 19 but she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep. 20 Therefore the righteous spoiled the unelohimly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them. 21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

She guides us through trials, she bring us victory over adversity, she led a nation to salvation. 

This wisdom is the same wisdom that guides us today, the very “wisdom of Elohim revealed in Yahusha Ha Moshiach”, (1 Corinthians 1:24, 30). It’s through Yahusha that we really get to witness the fulfillment of divine wisdom, it’s only through Him, that we, too, are invited to walk in wisdom and can actually get to experience deliverance in our lives and blessing and see the fullness of יהוה’s divine tapestry or plan for our life!

Divine intervention in history, wisdom – guide, protector, and judge, ensuring deliverance and justice for the righteous!

Wisdom guides the people of יהוה, sustaining us through divine providence.  

This wisdom is ultimately fulfilled in Yahusha, who embodies the wisdom of Elohim and guides us to salvation, as seen throughout the Brit Chadasha.