power and presence everywhere on earth come from the sun’s heat and
light. In fact, the heat of the sun in the spiritual world (the sun that sur-
rounds Jehovah God) is essentially divine love, and its light is essentially
divine wisdom. Clearly then, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipres-
ence are attributes of the divine essencethe way infinity, immensity, and
eternity are attributes of the underlying divine reality.
Up until now these three universal attributes of divine essence have not
been understood, because it has not been known that they keep to their
own pathways, meaning the laws of the divine design. Therefore these
attributes need to be elucidated in an examination of the following points:
1. It is divine wisdom, acting on behalf of divine love, that has omni -
potence, omniscience, and omnipresence.
2. We cannot comprehend God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omni -
presence unless we know what the divine design is, and unless we
learn that God is the divine design, and that he imposed that design
on the universe as a whole and on everything in it as he created it.
3. In the universe and everything in it, God’s omnipotence follows and
works through the laws of its design.
4. God is omniscient; that is, he is aware of, sees, and knows every-
thing down to the least detail that happens in keeping with the
divine design, and by contrast is aware of, sees, and knows what goes
against the divine design.
5. God is omnipresent in his design from beginning to end.
6. Human beings were created as forms of the divine design.
7. The more we follow the divine design in the way we live, the more we
receive power against evil and falsity from God’s omnipotence, receive
wisdom about goodness and truth from God’s omni science, and are in
God because of God’s omnipresence.These points need to be unfolded one by one.
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tence, omniscience, and omnipresence. Omnipotence, omniscience, and
omnipresence belong to divine wisdom acting on behalf of divine love,
not to divine love acting through divine wisdom. This is a secret from
heaven that has never yet dawned on anyone’s understanding, because
before this no one has known what love is in its essence, or what wisdom
is in its essence, much less how the one flows into the other. Love, with
everything that belongs to it, flows into wisdom and takes up residence
there like a monarch of a realm or a head of a household. The actual
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