"FOR. HAVE TAKEN ALL THIS TO MY HEART AND EXPLAIN IT THAT RIGHTEOUS MEN, WISE MEN, AND THEIR DEEDS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD. MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER IT WILL BE LOVE OR HATRED; ANYTHING AWAITS HIM."FOR. HAVE TAKEN ALL THIS" -Both to what has been said and to what is coming. "TO MY HEART AND EXPLAIN... [ Continue Reading ]
"IT IS THE SAME FOR ALL. THERE IS ONE FATE FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND FOR THE WICKED; FOR THE GOOD, FOR THE CLEAN, AND FOR THE UNCLEAN; FOR THE MAN WHO OFFERS. SACRIFICE AND FOR THE ONE WHO DOES NOT SACRIFICE. AS THE GOOD MAN IS, SO IS THE SINNER; AS THE SWEARER IS, SO IS THE ONE WHO IS AFRAID TO SWEAR".... [ Continue Reading ]
"THIS IS AN EVIL IN ALL THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN, THAT THERE IS ONE FATE FOR ALL MEN. FURTHERMORE, THE HEARTS OF THE SONS OF MEN ARE FULL OF EVIL, AND INSANITY IS IN THEIR HEARTS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES. AFTERWARDS THEY GO TO THE DEAD."THIS IS AN EVIL" -This certainly looks bad to those under the s... [ Continue Reading ]
"FOR WHOEVER IS JOINED WITH THE LIVING, THERE IS HOPE; SURELY. LIVE DOG IS BETTER THAN. DEAD LION."WHOEVER IS JOINED WITH THE LIVING" -i.e. anyone still alive "THERE IS HOPE" -If there is no God, then the living doesn't have any hope! The word hope here infers an afterlife that is determined by the... [ Continue Reading ]
"FOR THE LIVING KNOW THEY WILL DIE; BUT THE DEAD DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING, NOR HAVE THEY ANY LONGER. REWARD, FOR THEIR MEMORY IS FORGOTTEN."KNOW THEY WILL DIE" -and hence can make preparations so they die in. right relationship with God. Point To Note: We foolishly tend to envy the wrong people. If yo... [ Continue Reading ]
"INDEED THEIR LOVE, THEIR HATE, AND THEIR ZEAL HAVE ALREADY PERISHED, AND THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE. SHARE IN ALL THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN."LOVE, HATE, ZEAL" -"They no longer share in the knowledge, love, hatred, or events upon the earth" (Kidwell p. 228). Their ability to manifest love, hatred or... [ Continue Reading ]
"GO THEN, EAT YOUR BREAD IN HAPPINESS, AND DRINK YOUR WINE WITH. CHEERFUL HEART; FOR GOD HAS ALREADY APPROVED YOUR WORKS." "eat your bread in happiness" -Far from being depressed or discouraged by the previous facts, Solomon exhorts the living to make the most of the wholesome pleasures of this lif... [ Continue Reading ]
"LET YOUR CLOTHES BE WHITE ALL THE TIME, AND LET NOT OIL BE LACKING ON YOUR HEAD." Points To Note: 1 But how many professed Christians are consumed by worry and anxiety? How many professed Christians really do not enjoy their faith? How many of us worry about our salvation, fret and dread death or... [ Continue Reading ]
"ENJOY LIFE WITH THE WOMAN WHOM YOU LOVE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR FLEETING LIFE WHICH HE HAS GIVEN TO YOU UNDER THE SUN; FOR THIS IS YOUR REWARD IN LIFE, AND IN YOUR TOIL IN WHICH YOU HAVE LABORED UNDER THE SUN."ENJOY LIFE WITH THE WOMAN WHOM YOU LOVE" -Clearly this woman is your wife, for such love las... [ Continue Reading ]
"WHATEVER YOUR HANDS FINDS TO DO, VERILY, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT; FOR THERE IS NO ACTIVITY OR PLANNING OR WISDOM IN SHEOL WHERE YOU ARE GOING."WHATEVER….DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT" -i.e. what you can accomplish, do! In the above verses, God isn't advocating. drifting along, do nothing, addicted to... [ Continue Reading ]
"I AGAIN SAW UNDER THE SUN THAT THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT, AND THE BATTLE IS NOT TO THE WARRIORS, AND NEITHER IS BREAD TO THE WISE, NOR WEALTH TO THE DISCERNING, NOR FAVOR TO MEN OF ABILITY; FOR TIME AND CHANCE OVERTAKE THEM ALL." Solomon observed that the swiftest person does not always win the... [ Continue Reading ]
"MOREOVER, MAN DOES NOT KNOW HIS TIME: LIKE FISH CAUGHT IN. TREACHEROUS NET, AND BIRDS TRAPPED IN. SNARE, SO THE SONS OF MEN ARE ENSNARED AT AN EVIL TIME WHEN IT SUDDENLY FALLS ON THEM."MAN DOES NOT KNOW HIS TIME" -either the hour of his death, some misfortune (time and chance) or both. Man is never... [ Continue Reading ]
"ALSO THIS. CAME TO SEE AS WISDOM UNDER THE SUN, AND IT IMPRESSED ME." Solomon notes that he has an example of human wisdom that made. large impact on him. The following account demonstrates the temporary value of even the best human wisdom, and that often in life under the sun, such wisdom is eith... [ Continue Reading ]
"THERE WAS. SMALL CITY WITH FEW MEN IN IT AND. GREAT KING CAME TO IT, SURROUNDED IT, AND CONSTRUCTED LARGE SIEGE-WORKS AGAINST IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
"BUT THERE WAS FOUND IN IT. POOR WISE MAN AND HE DELIVERED THE CITY BY HIS WISDOM. YET NO ONE REMEMBERED THAT POOR MAN." We have. little city here, one without large military forces or large defenses. In this city, only. few men were found who could bear arms and fight. It only had. minimum of men... [ Continue Reading ]
"SO. SAID, 'WISDOM IS BETTER THAN STRENGTH.' BUT THE WISDOM OF THE POOR MAN IS DESPISED AND HIS WORDS ARE NOT HEEDED." In the above case, wisdom had everything against it, small defenses, resources,. small army and means. Strength, brute force, seemingly had everything on its side,. great king with... [ Continue Reading ]
"THE WORDS OF THE WISE HEARD IN QUIETNESS ARE BETTER THAN THE SHOUTING OF. RULER AMONG FOOLS." The teaching of wise men appeal by virtue of their content, not by their volume. The words of any wise individual are far better than the shouts of. leader who is ruling over. foolish people. "His shoutin... [ Continue Reading ]
"WISDOM IS BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR, BUT ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD." Points To Note: 1. Every government needs to take seriously the above truth, because so many governments rely upon their military might, instead of also placing emphasis upon wisdom and morality. 2. "We are left with more th... [ Continue Reading ]