Ecclesiastes 3
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This document discusses the idea that there is an order and season for every activity under heaven, from being born to dying, planting and harvesting, weeping and laughing, and times of war and peace. While people seek to understand and control this order, ultimately humans are not in control and must respond appropriately to each situation. The document suggests there is a grand design by God where everything fits together according to his plan from the beginning of time to the end, though people cannot fully comprehend it. It indicates there will be a time of accounting for all that has occurred.
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Ecclesiastes 3
- 3. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
- 4. 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
- 6. Seow: This is the way the world is. People are tempted to discern an order so that they can predict the changes and not have to face surprises. Yet the occasions simply present themselves, and people simply have to respond appropriately in each situation. The mortal is not in control.
- 7. What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.
- 8. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toilthis is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
- 9. 1.The World We Find Ourselves In 2.The Grand Design
- 10. This is not to say, for example, that God dictates the precise moments in which certain activities happen. Rather, he is making a case that our activities fit into a grand design, where everything, from birth and death, to war and peace, to silence and speaking, is affected. ~Peter Enns
- 11. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
- 12. V15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before;
- 13. 1.The World We Find Ourselves In 2.The Grand Design 3. A Time to Account
- 14. 16 And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment wickedness was there, in the place of justice wickedness was there.
- 15. 17 I thought in my heart, God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.
- 16. 1.The World We Find Ourselves In 2.The Grand Design 3. A Time to Account