A book I’m currently reading that is pleasantly peppered with interesting biblical insights is “Daniel the Prophet,” written in 1990 by Bible scholar Dr. Noah Hutchings.

Just look at this great passage:

It is evident that Daniel made a great impression on the king of Babylon. He had done something that even the wisest men in the whole kingdom could not do. The king confessed that Daniel’s God was greater than all the gods of the Chaldeans.

Daniel had been very careful to declare first to Nebuchadnezzar that the ability to recall the dream and the wisdom to interpret it came not from within himself, but from the God of heaven.

This Nebuchadnezzar confessed, but still, he fell down and worshipped Daniel. This appears rather odd to those of us who worship God in spirit and in truth, but to Nebuchadnezzar it was evidently the normal and accepted thing to do.

Heathen religions, like the religions of the Babylonians and Chaldeans, used idols as objects of worship. Such idols are necessary because their gods do not make their presence known through the spirit as the God who we worship speaks to us through the Holy Spirit and leads us in the spirit according to His will.

Therefore the false religions objects of worship such as idols are necessary so that the worshipper can feel that he is truly worshipping his god. And when Nebuchadnezzar fell down and worshipped Daniel, it was readily apparent that he was worshipping the only representation of this great God who had revealed the secret. In his own way, he was attempting to direct worship to Daniel’s God through the prophet himself.

However, we read in I Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Nebuchadnezzar still referred to Daniel’s God as “your God,” and not “my God.”

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Just like nobody knows everything in your heart but you and God, nobody knows everything in the mind of God but the Spirit of God.

And as Paul plainly states in I Cor. 2:12, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

As Believers, we’ve been given the Spirit who knows everything God’s doing!

“The Holy Spirit is God so He knows everything God thinks, and He’s taken that information and revealed it to you,” confirms my pastor, Richard Jordan. “Now how’d He do that? I Cor. 2:13 gives the answer: ‘Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.’

“Where do you find the words the Holy Ghost teaches? In the Word of God. So what do you have in the Word of God? You have the mind of God. It says all the mind of God is made known. So you’ve got the complete thinking of God Himself with regard to everything He’s doing in creation, all written in a Book for you. You see how important that is?”

Eph. 1:8-9 says God “hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself.”

Jordan explains, “If you shake up a liter of Dr. Pepper and then unscrew the cap, what happens? How does it come out? That’s what’s meant by ‘abounding.’ You can’t even stop it! What’s in the jug? Wisdom and prudence. You understand God has fixed you in such a way that it’s coming out your ears?”

Eph. 1:10 goes on to explain, “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.”

Jordan says, “God’s plan when He created everything back there in Gen. 1:1 was to one day gather everything under the headship of His son, Jesus Christ. And He’s going to do it in two spheres—the earth and the heavens; He’s laid all that out for you.

“When you understand that, you understand the secret of His will. Now, if I’ve made known the secret of my will to you, is there any secret left? Then don’t you have full revelation, full knowledge, full understanding?”

In I Corinthians 2:10, you see a connection to this same promise when Paul writes, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

The key to having God’s wisdom and prudence flow out abundantly is in knowing the mystery of the Father’s will, which only comes from understanding the purpose He has in both Israel’s prophetic program and the mystery program defined by Paul’s epistles.

“That’s why we (dispensational preachers) go around the country, jump up and down, spit fire on the pavement, pull our hair out, scream, talk crazy, all to try to get you to hear this because we’re trying to talk over the static of the vast religious system out there that’s trying to keep you from knowing that!

In Ephesians 3, Paul writes, “If you have heard of the dispensation of grace,” revealing that even in his day there were many saints who had not heard about the mystery dispensation because of an organized attempt to hide this information.

“It shouldn’t surprise you that 2,000 years later, that what was successful in Paul’s day has been successful ever since,” says Jordan. “But, boy, when you get it, doesn’t it liberate you! Doesn’t it make it exciting! If you’re not excited, it’s just that it has never gripped you. I guarantee that.”

As Paul so eloquently argues in I Cor. 2: 14-16, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

Jordan says, “You see, what happens to you and me is we’ve been put into a position in Christ of having the complete total thinking of the Godhead available to us right there! Do you realize that members of the Body of Christ are the first people in all the history of the universe that have had that?! That’s because you’re the first people who’ve had a completed Bible.”

In Romans 8:15, Paul assures, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”

“God the Father gives you this spirit of adoption,” confirms Jordan. “He gives you the capacity to stand as an adult in His family and say ‘Abba, Father.’ We relate to Him just as Jesus Christ relates to Him. Jesus Christ, by virtue of whom He is—as glorified humanity, the God-man glorified—He knows and understands everything; He has all the information and you share His mind! Okay? And the Spirit of God is the one who gives you that capacity even now to possess that. You have it in a Book and it’s the Spirit of God who teaches you that Book, isn’t it?”