God asked Job a lot of tough questions that Job could not answer. In fact, none of his friends could answer. In fact, nobody could answer. Questions such as, how are the clouds balanced? How is light parted? What does the wind weigh? What holds the earth up? How big is the earth? Where does snow and hail come from? What causes rain? Where does dew come from? What binds Orion and the Pleiades? What directs the lightning? How does a hawk fly? Job answered that, "These things are too wonderful for me, which I knew not" (Job 42:3). Nobody in Job's day knew the answers, but Adam and Eve did.
They studied the secret of photosynthesis in the leaf, the mysteries of clouds, the rotation of planets, the mysteries of light and sound, the mysteries of the starry heavens were all opened to their understanding by an all-wise, all-knowing Creator. All this marvelous knowledge was lost and we have slowly through the thousands of years since Eden laboriously uncovered a few of these secrets. Many of our conclusions have proved false and many have been proved true, but there is still much to be revealed.
One of the puzzles that has intrigued man is the question of what holds the earth up. The Babylonians thought it was supported by four elephants, the Egyptians thought it rested on the backs of turtles, the Greeks invented a giant called Atlas who supported it on his shoulders. All of this guessing was in spite of God’s declaration that "the earth hangs on nothing" (Job 26:7). It took a Galileo and a Newton to prove that God was right and that nothing holds the earth up, that it is continually falling toward the sun; It took a Ptolemy and a Columbus to prove that God was right when He said the earth is round (Isa. 40:22); It took a Newton, DeBroglie, Einstein, and others to discover the nature of light; it took a Pasteur to disprove the spontaneous generation of life; it took a Newton to explain the rainbow; it took a Torricelli to measure the weight of air; it took a Priestly to debunk the phlogiston theory of burning; it took a Maxwell to discover the laws of electro-magnetism. Before these discoveries nobody knew.
There are still many unknowns today despite the marvelous advances of science. In fact, we have barely scratched the surface of the great and boundless sea of knowledge. Nobody knows how cells know when to divide; nobody knows what determines the differentiation of stem cells; nobody knows how we remember; nobody knows how the brain sees, hears and feels; nobody knows why the earth’s magnetic field wanders; nobody knows the time of an earthquake; nobody knows how photons communicate; nobody knows what gravity is; nobody knows why inertia exactly counteracts the acceleration of gravity...
There are so many unknowns in this world, but there are many more in the spiritual world. Nobody knows how God creates; nobody knows the color of the Holy Spirit's hair; nobody knows how the virgin Mary became pregnant; nobody knows who Melchizedek was; nobody knows how the miracles of Christ were performed; nobody knows the composition of the resurrection body; nobody knows the day nor the hour of Christ’s return; "nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, nobody knows but Jesus."
When it comes to the kingdom of God, there are a lot of things that "nobody knows."
