"None Is Like Me Declaring The End From The Beginning"
It is true that no one works like God, nor can the depth of God's Wisdom be fathomed by man, angel, or devil. To whom can you liken God? He is a class all by Himself and no one is equal in glory! The purpose of this paper is to discuss how God fulfilled Isaiah 46:9-10, our title text.
God is the ultimate teacher, and He has planted seed-experiences in the form of psychodramas to release light according to His pleasure when sprinkling Sonlight and Reign. Our scene to illustrate God's glory in compacting knowledge of the end at the beginning in a seed-experience starts in the Garden of Eden. Eden allegorically symbolized heaven. Adam and Eve were told to "dress and water" the garden. This dressing and watering in the final analysis means to teach and cause to learn. Trees have a two-fold meaning: (a) Isaiah 41:4, 61:3, newly rising Host members redeemed from earth as fast as men die, (b) Isaiah 41:19, men on earth. Every tree God planted is not a fruit tree, nor a fragrant tree whose wood makes incense when burned. So it is that all men are not vessels of clean use. Some are for unclean use as God options, Romans 9:18-21. Thus, all trees are an allegory spiritually speaking of all men, Deuteronomy 20:19; Daniel 4:10-17. The roots of the trees are imbedded in the clay signifying that man on earth is quite instrumental as a source of nourishment for the new Host members as well as themselves. New Host members receive nourishment by "watching" men act both (a) positive roles illustrating the virtues and benefits of good works and (b) negative roles which accentuate the positive and show the kinds of behavior God does not want practiced above. Thus, men on earth both bad and good roots serve as nourishment sources by becoming "instructions and proverbs", Deuteronomy 28:37; Ezekiel 5:15 for the benefit of the new Host members, Malachi 3:18; Hebrews 12:1,22-24. All this clearly illustrates how "they without us should not be made perfect", Hebrews 11:40. Adam and Eve represented the Angels and Virtues who serve as teachers and guardians for men below (Luke 13:6-9) and above (Isaiah 30:19-21, 54:13).
We should point out that beasts were among the trees, another parable relating to "men with no understanding below (Psalm 49:20) and men newly drawn up to heaven still untrained but ready for school, Isaiah 11:6-9; John 12:24; Acts 10:9-16. Adam and Eve also were confronted by Satan and his fallen troops. This shows that the Angels and Virtues must do battle against the powers of darkness on behalf of man on earth, Psalm 91:9-13; Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7-9. And those newly rising Host members, too, must become a part of the Heavenly Army and wage the battle of the conscience for man and become man's intelligence, Proverbs 20:27.
Because of resident sin and ignorance, most men on earth have become "engrafted" trees of knowledge of good and evil" due to demonic control of man, Genesis 3:22,24; Matthew 12:43-45. The text in Genesis also teaches that the trees of life reside in heaven. New Host members, therefore, do not eat the doctrines expounded by men as they watch. They eat the words of the heavenly teachers and such doctrinal fruits that God may give His special fruit trees (spiritual Levites) among men. Thus, Adam and Eve were commanded to eat "fruits" from the fruit bearing trees, but to avoid the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Moses and the children of Israel also enacted these things. When they entered the '"promised land" (Heaven) they were told not to eat the fruit of the trees they plant in the land (men on earth they are assigned to teach). They were to consider it uncircumcised for three years, Leviticus 19:23-25. This is because education of an earthly man is gradual, and until it is complete, that man's understanding will be partial or laced with errors. Host members are therefore commanded not to regard the thoughts of elect men still in training on earth until such time as they have the whole light with no parts dark. Upon entering the "promised land" (Heaven) the children of Israel (new Host members) had to fight to subdue the land (man on earth), Deuteronomy 1:22-24. It means the Hosts must wrestle devils to subdue men on earth, as the Watchers had to in educating Nebuchadnezzar.
Now we see how God told us how we would end up in the first play starring Adam and Eve in the very first scene and act. Who can make a small seed equal to a full grown tree full of fruit? Who can make one incidental scene in the beginning tell the likeness of the glory each man comes to on the day his earthly stay comes to the end? The Master Teacher has done it all! Great and marvelous are His works for no man works like Him. "I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure! Isaiah 46:9-10.