CHAPTER 3 THERE IS A RIGHT TIME FOR EVERYTHING. THERE IS ALSO TRANSIENT BEAUTY IN THE WORLD AND MAN HAS EVERLASTINGNESS IN HIS HEART. BUT THERE IS ALSO INJUSTICE, AND IN THE END ALL DIE. His experiments are now over but he continues to think about all the events and occurrences of life, and how the... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (ECCLESIASTES 3:1). Ecclesiastes 3:1 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die, A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted, A time to kill, and a time to heal,... [ Continue Reading ]
MUSINGS ON MAN'S WORK (ECCLESIASTES 3:9). Ecclesiastes 3:9 ‘What profit has the workman in that in which he labours? We return here to the question of purposelessness. The workman who labours gains nothing from his labours apart from his wages. Nothing of what he labours on will benefit him. It i... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in its time (‘God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good' - Genesis 1:29). And at t... [ Continue Reading ]
INJUSTICE IS A BLOT ON GOD'S CREATION (ECCLESIASTES 3:16). The consequence of his awareness of everlastingness, and of his subsequent recognition that justice is not being achieved, is that he becomes aware that God is the final judge. Ecclesiastes 3:16 ‘And moreover I saw under the sun, in the p... [ Continue Reading ]
DEATH IS THE GREAT LEVELLER (ECCLESIASTES 3:18). Now we discover the conflict taking place within him. He has had a concept of everlastingness and of the necessity for future judgement. How then does this tie in with the fact that all die, both man and beast? Ecclesiastes 3:18 ‘I said in my heart... [ Continue Reading ]