Wisdom is the fumbling substitute for perfect knowledge. [The American Story by Garet Garret, Henry Regnery Company, 1955 and made available as a pdf file on lewrockwell.com through the generosity of Lew Rockwell and his associates.]
Ahhh, but what does it mean to know?
In the old testament, “to know your wife” meant “to have sex with your wife.” In old-fashioned language, “to engage in the marital act with your wife.” In general, the ancient Hebrews and the ancient Greeks, at least those in the line of Plato and Aristotle, used “to know” in the sense of an intimacy, a profound communion. Knowledge, to modern man, is often no more than an organized form of data of the sort which can be stored in computer memory.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
… So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. [1 Corinthians 13:8, The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, Thomas Nelson Publishers for Ignatius Press.]
As I understand these issues, knowledge deals with God’s world in terms of what can be learned by empirical investigation while prophecy deals with God’s revelations of His transcendent Being and also of His revelations of His purposes for Creation. Human knowledge and human prophecy in this mortal realm are both quite imperfect, but they can tend towards the perfect forms of knowledge and prophecy. Prophecy is to speak truly of God and of His love and His laws. It is a form of knowledge of God Himself and it will certainly not pass away in the world of the resurrected so much as it will be perfected. At that time, knowledge of Creation, of ourselves and others, of the meaning of time and space and matter, of morality and narrative, will be perfected. Faith and hope will have disappeared. What sense does it make to have faith that God exists when you live in the presence of His Son? What faith does it make to hope for God’s mercy when you’ve already received it?
Each resurrected human being might still have only a tiny share in the perfected knowledge held by the Lord Jesus Christ, but it will be a share of the perfect. Wisdom, so called, will be a memory of past things, as will be true of faith and hope.