seven pillars

Sunday August 19^th, Proverbs 9: Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars.  She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.  She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city.  "Let all who are simple come in here!"  Wisdom was highly regarded at the time of Solomon and in some cases was considered the calling of what would now be known as the Holy Spirit.  Seven was a Holy number and thus when the anti-christ is noted as 666 in the book of Revelation, it is simply referring to someone who is not 777.  Instead of Holiness abounding, there is want-a-be abounding, but not quite making it.  So the seven pillars are the holiness and perfection that are the foundation of the house of wisdom.  Here the calling is for all who are simple to come into the place prepared.  All who are simple seems like an odd definition.  But think of those who are not simple, those who weave complex plots to get ahead, to out due the other person, to take advantage, in other words, the movers and the shakers in society, they are the excluded ones.  In Matthew 5 and Luke 6, Jesus said it something like this; blessed are the meek, blessed are the poor, blessed are the persecuted, blessed are those who hunger and thrust.  Perhaps we should have these words above church doors, as well as a congressional mission statement. Let all who are simple come in here.