This is part 9 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Today it is universal to create a tagline for your book cover. If Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes today, the tagline of the book could be, “Learning to live by preparing to die.” We will see why in...
This is part 8 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Recall that the concept of hebel—though unnamed then—was introduced in Genesis 3 at the fall of man. Ecclesiastes 6 puts on display another facet of hebel that combats the good order God created in...
This is part 7 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. We have a trail of bread crumbs. There isn’t much gain under the sun, but Solomon keeps dropping hints that there are things that are better than others. Wisdom is better than foolishness....
This is part 6 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Hebel even affects relationships. Oppression of poor people who have no one to protect them is a grievous evil under the sun (4:1-3). Their lives are marked by hebel. What meaning can be felt or...
This is part 5 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Remember the “hamster wheel” feeling that Solomon introduced in 1:3-7? Solomon brings it up again and in even greater detail. Take a look at his math in 3:1-8: There is a time and season for...
This is part 4 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. In modern parlance, Solomon “did us a solid” (or did us a great favor). Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 documents Solomon’s foray into chasing after meaning by any means possible. This section is intensely...
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