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perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail,” thus equating the king with the
counsellor. He’s dealing here with the wise counsel
of a king, counsel backed up with power.
The Hebrew word translated “wonderful” here
actually means “mighty acts and deeds,
miraculous works.” So he’s talking about miracle-
producing counsel that comes from a king, and
that can only be the Lord, Who gives you counsel
within that produces miracles without.
I’ll give you a simple example: Only the Lord
could have told Moses, “Take your shepherd’s rod,
go to Pharaoh and wield that rod before him and
there would be miracles.” Only the counsel of the
Lord could have instructed him, “Hold that rod in
your hand, stand before the rock, strike it, and
water will come out.”
Ordinarily, this counsel doesn’t seem to make
any sense, but the Bible says where the word of a
king is there is power (Ecclesiastes 8:4), and we’re
talking about the counsel of not just any king, but
the King of kings!