Wisdom Hidden In A Mystery: Who Is She? Why Does She Cry?

By Bertha Drake

In this book there is revealed the story of a woman, hidden in the Bible. She is mentioned many times in scripture, especially in the Old Testament writings, yet she has been largely overlooked by the theologians of today. She is described in the Bible as appearing in heaven with a man child. This woman is no longer the enigma that has endured f

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Jul 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781643450995

Bertha Drake

Bertha L. Hicks-Drake lives in the Kansas City area and is a retired aerospace machinist. She was inspired to write Wisdom Hidden in a Mystery by the Holy Spirit of God, whom she feels blessed by with this revelation.

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Wisdom Hidden in a Mystery is what I believe to be the book of the century—a must-read book for everyone. For such a long time, she—yes, I said she—has been hidden, and I believe that God has revealed her to the world in the pages of this wonderful, powerful, and anointed book through my friend, Bertha. No longer is she hidden. Find out who she is, where she came from, and the reason she cries in the pages of this amazing book. As a pastor, I am blessed to know and to worship with Bertha. I must say that the student has taught the teacher. Enjoy, live long, and prosper!

—Pastor Pinkie Roland

[Wisdom Hidden in a Mystery is] intriguing, thought-provoking, and challenges [readers] to put aside all that [they] thought [they] knew. It [makes readers want] to go into prayer and seek a new intimacy with God. A must-read for people at all levels in their life journeys. For those willing to open their minds and hearts to the awesome possibilities contained in this spirit-filled exploration of wisdom, the rewards are many. This book will cause non-Bible readers to find a Bible and read it!

—Alice Clark, Educator

Clearly inspired of the Holy Spirit and infused with the joy and excitement of one who knows she has been blessed, this book will inspire the reader to become more devoted to opening up the scriptures and discovering other mysteries hidden within.

—Louise H. Seraaj, Managing Editor, Central Florida Advocate

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank my heavenly Father for choosing me to give this revelation. Why me? I do not know.

I would also like to thank my three lovely daughters—Stephanie, Sherri, and Sandee—who have helped me in many ways during this process.

I would like to thank the person who was very instrumental in the writing of this book, Pastor Gerry Roland of the New Hope International Covenant Ministries Church in Kansas City, Kansas. I know if it were not for the kind of teaching that I have received—and am still receiving under his ministry—this book would still be years away, or the Holy Spirit would have given it to someone else. I would not have been spiritually ready.

I want to also thank Pastor Gerry’s wife, Pastor Pinkie Roland, for being my friend and confidante. She listened to everything I had to share about the book (even though most of it was of things not yet known); she never once went religious on me. Her approach caused me to never to doubt myself, but instead be encouraged.

I would like to thank my sister, Alice Clark. It was she who, when I thought I had finished writing the book, told me, You know what you are thinking. Now you have to write so that everyone else will. That statement made me free to write all that the Holy Spirit was giving me.

I love you all.

Introduction

There was a woman in heaven! Her revelation will be revealed in this book. The Bible conveys to us—in a hidden manner—how this woman was in heaven, in the beginning, with God. I know this sounds ludicrous because of what we have been taught and what we may believe about the Godhead. Maybe some theologians and Bible scholars know there is a hidden story in the Bible concerning this woman; however, it is not something that is taught in the church. Now, her secret is out through this book.

I believe the revelation of this woman is important because her story reveals the complete story of Jesus Christ, not just His story after He came to earth. We will learn from scripture of the day that someone was chosen to be the Son of God. We will learn how Job and his friends were aware that God had a secret meeting about salvation before man was even created. We will learn the real reason Satan was kicked out of heaven. We will learn how Mary, the earthly mother of Jesus, was not the woman who God was referring to when he told Satan of his punishment after he caused the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. We will learn from scripture why the woman’s true identity had to be hidden. All of this about this woman—and more—is in the Holy Bible.

The Bible actually mentions a mystery surrounding a woman many times. I believe the hidden mystery of the woman was so difficult for one to grasp because one would have to admit that the woman so often spoken of in scripture was an actual spiritual being. Furthermore, we would have to admit that the Bible calls part of the Godhead a woman. There is much to the revelation of the woman, yet it does not change the things that we have been taught about God or His kingdom. The woman, who is called Wisdom, is revealed in such a way as to show one that the Bible is the divine Word of God. No man could have done this—nor any group of men over thousands of years—because the revelation of the woman called Wisdom is given to us in the Bible from the first book of Genesis to the last book of Revelation.

The Holy Spirit is the one who gave me this revelation. I knew nothing of this on my own. He showed me how the word wisdom is the only word in the Bible that has the words mystery, hidden, and even the word secret surrounding it. Everything that is written in the Bible about wisdom is written in such a way as to make one miss the significance of what is being said.

There are two scriptures written in the New Testament that I want to point out to help disclose to the reader this phenomenon: 1st Corinthians 2:7 (KJV) and Ephesians 3:9–10 (NIV). Let’s read them together. 1st Corinthians 2:7 (KJV) says, But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Ephesians 3:9–10 (NIV) says, And to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now through the church the manifold Wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realm, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Well, it is time to figure it out now! God wants the mystery of Wisdom solved. In chapter 2, I break down Ephesians 3:9–10 (KJV) so that one can see the significance of this scripture.

How Do I Know?

One night, I was reading in the book of Proverbs—just as the pastor of the church that I then attended instructed the churchgoers to do. I had read the book of Proverbs many times before that night. This time, however, while reading chapter 8, a voice spoke to me and told me to go back and reread that whole chapter. It wasn’t a still small voice like the one that I normally associate with the Holy Spirit, but it was more like a command that provoked me to go back and read over what I had just drifted through.

After I had finished rereading that chapter, I knew something awesome was taking shape. I was, at that moment, given an awesome revelation of someone. I say someone because, although this was not my first time reading the book of Proverbs nor the Bible, it was the first time that my spirit paid attention to certain things concerning the biblical presentation of the woman named Wisdom. At that instant, I realized that this woman is an actual spiritual being. Where has she been for all of this time? I wondered. Why wasn’t I taught about her in church? While I thought about these concepts, I still did not understand exactly what her part was in the kingdom of God, nor why she had to be hidden.

So I began a search through the Bible. I looked up every scripture that used the word wisdom in any form. In my search of the scriptures, I found how the person named Wisdom was hidden on purpose. Moreover, I began to understand that God had chosen me to do the job of revealing her to the world. In the past, perhaps like most people, I had always believed when the word wisdom was spoken, it was referring to a thought process. Now I am feeling that things might have changed. The Holy Spirit is introducing Wisdom to the world.

When I began my search for Wisdom, I had no idea there would to be a book involved. I just began writing what the Holy Spirit was giving me. My search drew me into a fascinating mystery, and you know how mysteries are; they will keep you going until the mystery is solved. Well, that is exactly what happened to me. Furthermore, from all the scriptures that I researched in the Bible on wisdom and from everything that the Holy Spirit was teaching me, I understood that Wisdom was a woman in heaven. No one had ever told me that a woman was in heaven, in the beginning, with God.

More than the rest, there was a particular scripture in the book of Proverbs—chapter 8— that made me sit up and pay close attention. It’s Proverbs 8:30 (KJV), which says, Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him. This is Wisdom speaking in that scripture, and she is talking about herself and God the Father somehow being together. When the Holy Spirit illuminated Proverbs 8:30 (KJV) to me, my heart was taken. For me, that scripture portrayed a powerful image—one that I could not dismiss. I had found something that had been hidden in the Bible, something that had to do with the relationship that God had with a woman from the beginning of time—and we never knew about it.

A Complete Story Is Told

Most Christians have been taught by the church about many heavenly beings. We have been taught about Jesus after He came to earth and after He was received back unto the Father. We have been taught about the Holy Spirit. We have also been taught about the angels in heaven. We have even been taught all about Satan. However, we haven’t been taught about this woman who says that she was in the beginning with God. We haven’t been taught about Jesus and His beginning relationship to the Father. We also haven’t been taught about who Jesus was from the beginning of time. Since the Bible tells us all about Satan from the beginning of time, why doesn’t it go into detail about Jesus too? Through my research, I found how there is a reason for these seemingly omissions. Mankind did not overlook these things about Jesus on purpose. According to scripture, we will find how these things and much more were hidden from us.

Furthermore, we will find how the secrets of Wisdom were also hidden from even the angels of God.

I want to admonish you: there are some hard matters in this book, but everything is backed up with scripture. This revelation is very important to the world because after reading it, there is no way anyone can deny the deity of Jesus Christ. There will be no way we can deny that the Bible is God-inspired. When reading into the scriptures surrounding and talking about the wisdom of God, one will come to understand how the scriptures are asking us in every conceivable way to search out this thing.

There are scriptures that say, Get wisdom, get understanding, Wisdom is the principal thing, I applied my heart to know Wisdom, Those that seek me [Wisdom] early shall find me, and For whoso findeth me [Wisdom] findeth life. This is a revelation for the entire world. I say this because when I had finished this book, I fully understood the heights, the lengths, and the depths to which God went in order to redeem a fallen world. I wanted to be so extra careful in my search for Wisdom; I wanted to understand all that God wanted to show me. In my search, I found how Wisdom was known as the prize of the Ancient Times. I found how Moses had her spirit on him. I found how Moses laid hands on Joshua and gave Wisdom’s spirit to him. I found how Solomon possessed her spirit because he asked for it. God gave her spirit to the people of Israel in order to set up His tabernacle and to do all of the intricate work. I found how the Book of Job said she was double to that which is. I found how she calls to the sons of man, she established the heaven and the earth, and she is the one who sent the prophets and apostles and gave them orders. I found she hid the mysteries of God from us—from the foundation of the world. You will see how she did all of these things and so very much more in this book.

After coming to an understanding of all of the things that Wisdom did in the Old Testament scriptures, I had to ask myself another question: If she was so important to the Old Testament prophets, where did she go in the New Testament? She is barely mentioned in the New Testament by that name.

We will explore all the above questions in this book, and there will leave no doubt in your mind—none whatsoever—about the identity of this female named Wisdom. We will find how the Bible portrays a powerful image, an image so strong that can leave one reeling. The Bible has plenty to reveal about Wisdom: what she said, what she did, and what she kept hidden until the time had come to reveal it. As you read this book—if you are able to keep an open mind and put away your religious thoughts—you will get an image of God like you’ve never had before: how awesome, how marvelous, how wonderful God really is. One will see a new side of Him, never before revealed until now.

This book has many scriptures—scriptures that tell a love story, the love of God for all mankind. I ask that you will read each and every one of these scriptures carefully. It is important so that you can get an understanding of what God is revealing to us about Himself in these last days. I was led to write this book as if everyone reading it knows nothing about God or His word. So don’t get offended if we go over things that you already know.

By the time we come to the end of this book, I hope you will at least come to understand that the story of Wisdom is very important. I hope that you will come to see that she is someone who we can no longer afford to overlook. She has made some awesome claims and promises—ones that we can no longer afford to miss. It is her time now, so pay close attention.

I know that our religious thoughts hold us back from knowing God as He really is; we want to keep Him in a box. I urge you to put your religious thoughts aside. By the time I had finished writing this book, I fully understood what the scriptures meant by Wisdom being more precious than silver and gold. I am so honored, and I love God all the more.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

—Proverbs 1:22 (KJV)

Chapter 1

Wisdom in the Beginning

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

—Proverbs 8:23 (KJV)

During my search of the scriptures for the person called Wisdom, I found there is so much information in the Bible about her. Yes, it is hard to understand. How she could be stuck, crying out to the sons of man, and her voice was never heard for all this time? In Proverbs 8:4, Wisdom says, Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man. Could this mean that we should have heard her before now?

As Christians, we readily recognize spirits of the demon world when presented to us. That’s the devil, we say when we are confronted with sickness, poverty, lack, disease, or hear an interpretation of the Bible that we do not like. Yet we failed to recognize when we saw that the kingdom of God also has many spirits. In fact, they were referred to as the Seven Spirits of God. Until I began this study, I never knew the Seven Spirits of God even existed. I do not know why I didn’t; I have been in church all my life, and I have read the Bible many times. Yet I had never heard it mentioned, nor did I keep the Seven Spirits of God in my remembrance. I had to have unknowingly read about them, but for some reason I missed it. These spirits are called by name: the spirit of, Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, Counsel, Power, Might, and the Fear of the Lord. In this book, we are going to learn of just one of the Seven Spirits of God. She is called the principal thing, and her name is Wisdom—such a beautiful name, right?

God’s creation of heaven and earth is something the church and science have debated for years. If you follow the way the Bible is written, the Father and someone called us created the man in their image. Genesis 1:26 (KJV) says, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the earth and sea. Now why would God call someone so important as to help create mankind us? This is the only description Genesis 1:26 (KJV) gives us at that time of