The Write Place

¹⁰ The astrologers answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer. ¹¹ What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.”
Daniel 2:10-11

When you read scripture understanding how it points to Christ, things start to pop before. We see God’s sovereignty, his planning, even his eloquence as the author of history. What the pagan holy men say is the common understanding of God’s in the ancient world, that gods are far off and disinterested.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14

Unknowingly they expose the foolishness of this wisdom when we look at the God who is God. The God alone who reveals knowledge

¹⁰ these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³ And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.^[a]

¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶ “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:10-16

Unlike the pagan gods, ours is a God who desires to dwell with his people. He is not disinterested, apathetic or cruel. He took it upon himself to make a way to dwell with his people, even coming down and taking their sin upon himself. Unlike their gods of stone, brass, or their passions our is a living God who dwells with us as our Immanuel with God’s revelation of himself.

³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^[c] 

Revelation 21:3

In the passage in Daniel we do see how God reveals all things, but we also see the foolishness of the world that rejected him. What was lost in Eden is now secure in Christ. What is foolishness to the world shows us the wisdom of God, and his love for us.

²⁰ Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach^[a] to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:20-21