Isaiah 6:1-2 – “I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.”
He saw the glory of God. He saw Jesus, sitting on a throne, high and lifted-up. He saw seraphim, and it had six wings. He's getting a view of the glory of God. The seraphim have six wings; with two they cover their face or their eyes, because the brilliance of God's glory is beyond their ability to comprehend; with two they cover their feet, meaning the holiness of God is overwhelming to them; and with two they did fly - they stayed in their position, or their ranking. It tells us we get access to the unsearchable riches of who Jesus is; we get access to the riches of His glory.
Romans 9:23 – “…that He might make known the riches of His glory, or His majesty on the vessels of mercy He prepared beforehand for glory”.
Access to the riches of His mercy and love. Notice what it says are riches: the unsearchable riches of Christ - the riches of His glory, the riches of His mercy and love.
Ephesians 2:4 – “God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love He loved us. The riches of His grace, He has raised us up and made us seated together in heavenly places in Jesus Christ, in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace”.
Notice there, the ‘riches’ are around spiritual things, which have magnificent value: access to the riches of His wisdom & knowledge.
Colossians 2:2-3 – “…that our hearts may be encouraged, and knit together in love, and attaining to all the riches of full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, of the Father and of Jesus Christ, in whom are hidden all the riches of wisdom and knowledge”.
Solomon had been taught by his father, who was a man who walked with God, and his father taught him. In Proverbs 2, it's Solomon speaking to his son, and he says: “son, now listen to the teaching of your father, for my father taught me”. Then he began to talk about the value of wisdom, and he says: “wisdom is the principle thing, and in all your wisdom, get understanding”. God spoke to Solomon, and said: what is it you want? I'll give you anything you want! He said: “give me an understanding heart to discern, I want wisdom”. God was pleased with that, because He's looking for eternal riches - and then God gives him everything else. He said: because you didn't ask for power over your enemies, or riches, or any of these other things… I'll give you all of that!
When you have wisdom and understanding, everything else comes to you. So often, we put our value on what we consider riches: gold and silver, a bank account, a boat, a house and all those things - those are temporary, they pass away; they need maintenance, they disappear. He said: there's other riches, other things, which are eternal riches; wisdom and knowledge are eternal riches. In Colossians 2:3 it talks about Christ, “…in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”. You want wisdom, you want a deeper relationship with Jesus. He's the source of wisdom, the source of knowledge.
Wisdom - by understanding, we get to see how things are. We gain insight to the reality of what things are. Wisdom - we know exactly what to do. There are many scriptures in Proverbs about wisdom.
Proverbs 3:19 – “the Lord, by wisdom, founded the earth; and by understanding, He established the heavens. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding”
Proverbs 3:13 – “Her proceeds are better than profits of silver, and her gain better than fine gold, she's more precious than rubies, of all the things you may desire cannot compare with her”.
Proverbs is full of statements about how wisdom and understanding are the true riches. If you've got those, everything else you need will come out of that. We have access to the riches of revelation, from Jesus.