Think about this: God had an architectural blueprint drawn up when He created the earth and it was crafted by His personified co-partner that He Himself calls ‘wisdom’!

As my pastor, Richard Jordan, explains it, “Proverbs 8: 22 is one of the most fascinating passages in Bible about creation, and the person behind it is not really a person! It’s this scheme of wisdom God has personified!”

Wisdom is actually quoted in Proverbs testifying, “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
[23] I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
[24] When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
[25] Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
[26] While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
[27] When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
[28] When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
[29] When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
[30] Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
[31] Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
[32] Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
[33] Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
[34] Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
[35] For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
[36] But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.”

Jordan explains, “Before God created anything, wisdom was brought forth. It was established; it was set up. When you set something up, you build it. You construct it. Wisdom literally put together this plan before God created anything so that when He created, He created it according to the plan.”

In Genesis 1 it says that when God created everything, He looked back at exactly what He did and exclaimed, “It is good!”

“He’d look at it and say, ‘Wow, that’s just right!’ ” says Jordan. “And wisdom would say, ‘You know what, I was by Him; I was with Him every day! Everywhere He went He took me! I went with Him and He had me right by Him.’

“God said, ‘Oh, I love it when a plan comes together,’ and He called that plan ‘wisdom’. You know what the Bible says about that Book? ‘It’s settled in heaven forever.’

“Now I don’t know about you, but I bet that if you could’ve taken the book God had and held it up on its binding, it would have said— KJV. What I’m saying is if I could have read the one He had in my language, that’s what it would have said. My point to you is, He had a Book. He had a plan, and for you and me that plan’s been laid out.”

In Isaiah 40:20, God chides the nation Israel, reminding them, “Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
[23] That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.”

Jordan explains, “There are some things about creation that God has made known from the beginning and that He’s told men from the foundation of the earth. From the very beginning of the thing, there are some details about creation—and what God was doing from the very first day—that God’s been telling people about and that they should have known. The reason they would have known about these things is because God told them about them in His Word!”

From what God tells us Himself in the Book of Job (chapter 38), “If science today doesn’t know it, it's because science is willingly ignorant. If people, and philosophers and historians, don't know it, it's because they're willingly ignorant. From the beginning of creation, I’ve been declaring my purpose.”

Jordan explains, “The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and basically said, ‘Who is this running off at the mouth, talking about stuff they don’t know anything about and making people not know what’s going on?!’ Now, you could say that about the average pulpit today—certainly with the majority of TV and radio programs that profess to be teaching the Word of God!”