changes; sometimes it is a time for one thing, and sometimes for And that's the idea of the Hebrew. Everything in the world must be in its true place and time, or it is not beautiful. That is expressing His eternal nature. Ecclesiastes 3:11. No, no, you can't add. while he lives, is attended with continual vicissitudes and But there is within every man, God has placed it in the heart, eternal, the eternity in the heart of every man that is seeking out after that which is more than just a part of this monotonous routine of life. I'm so horrible. But who knows if the spirit of man goes upward, and the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth? There is a consciousness within every man of the eternal. Proud member Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. It's just a monotony. This travail is given to us to make us weary of the world and desirous of the remaining rest. Ec Ecc Eccles.) California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Now, if you get outside of the earth, and you begin to accelerate your speed, time no longer is moving in this but it begins to stretch out into a plane according to this speed to where if you can accelerate to this speed of light, time stands still. You can't escape it. I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. 4. The Solomon Project: Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 To see the introduction to this blog please see the earlier posts. 12. What does this verse really mean? Ecclesiastes 9:2 "All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the … No, you can't take away from that righteousness that is yours in Christ Jesus. The first verse ascribes authorship to Qoheleth, "the son of David"—leading many to presume that he is Solomon, who wrote Hundred thousand years you could leave the Milky Way galaxy. Life offers good times and bad and follows no pattern such as that proposed by the retribution principle. Every thing under heaven is thus changeable, but in heaven there is an unchangeable state, and an unchangeable counsel concerning these things. Now this is life under the sun, that man might see himself that he's an animal. People can change nothing (3:1-9).Human beings may have a desire to know God and the realities of the unseen eternal world, but they still cannot understand God’s ways. Some observe that here is a time to be born and a time to die, but no time to live; that is so short that it is not worth mentioning; as soon as we are born we begin to die. Ecclesiastes 3:9. If our present state be subject to such vicissitude, 1. War shall not last always, nor is there any peace to be called lasting on this side the everlasting peace. And God has worked in me His righteousness by my faith in Jesus Christ.Now one of the problems that we often have is our endeavor to add to God's work. Ecclesiastes 3:11. 9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? Chapter 3Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. In other words, there is no time. (11-15) The vanity of worldly power. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. What profit hath he — What real good, what solid pleasure, is derived from all the labours of man? What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein What can a man promise himself from planting and building, when that which he thinks is brought to perfection may so soon, and will so surely, be plucked up and broken down? 3. And I'm so this and that." But you've escaped the time zone. Time deals with the finite aspects. You are righteous, the righteousness of Christ which is through faith. A time when God's providence calls to weep and mourn, and when man's wisdom and grace will comply with the call, and will weep and mourn, as in times of common calamity and danger, and there it is very absurd to laugh, and dance, and make merry (Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13; Ezekiel 21:10); but then, on the other hand, there is a time when God calls to cheerfulness, a time to laugh and dance, and then he expects we should serve him with joyfulness and gladness of heart. 9, the question asked in every great age, by every great … And this comes in here as a reason why, when we are in prosperity, we should by easy, and yet not secure--not to be secure because we live in a world of changes and therefore have no reason to say, To-morrow shall be as this day (the lowest valleys join to the highest mountains), and yet to be easy, and, as he had advised (Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 2:24), to enjoy the good of our labour, in a humble dependence upon God and his providence, neither lifted up with hopes, nor cast down with fears, but with evenness of mind expecting every event. Now, if we could hop on a ray of light, turning into the energy, get out in this long plane, you could take off on a ray of light in what? The Searcher discovered three things. 10 I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. It is commonly applied to conjugal embraces, and explained by 1 Corinthians 7:3-5; Joel 2:16. That is, he has none. The work of God is complete. Now (ignoring for the moment the conclusions he has just outlined in 2:24-26) he considers the fixed order of events in the world. I wouldn't think of doing that," and I can't go around in a self-righteous mold because I have these spiritual gifts or I have done this or that. There is a time to be born and a time to die. He never intended this world for our rest, and therefore never appointed us to take our ease in it. And you can't add to the work of God. Nay, there will come a time to lose, when what has been soon got will be soon scattered and cannot be held fast. What gain has the worker from his toil? Jerome applies this to the rending of the Jewish church and the sewing and making up of the gospel church thereupon. When 3:9 picks up afterward, what follows is not a separate topic. What profit hath he that worketh, &c. — Seeing then all events are out of man’s power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God pleaseth, as has been shown in many particulars, and is as true and certain in all others, hence it follows that all men’s labours, without God’s blessing, are unprofitable, and utterly insufficient to make them … So that any event that will ever take place is taking place. 7. So just live for now, rejoice in your works now. 1162.]. It is a gracious gift that causes us to spend our time on earth productive, honestly, and in a meaningful fashion. That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been ( Ecclesiastes 3:15 ); That's weird. In view of this, all human effort to improve life is useless. And I'm so glad. We are still exploring chapter three of Ecclesiastes. It was really being expressed in a very life-gets-so-tedious, don't it? Ecclesiastes 3:8. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 From Dust to Dust. 2. So, again, we see the Preacher’s focus on work. A time to get, get money, get preferment, get good bargains and a good interest, when opportunity smiles, a time when a wise man will seek (so the word is); when he is setting out in the world and has a growing family, when he is in his prime, when he prospers and has a run of business, then it is time for him to be busy and make hay when the sun shines. Life is just monotonous. Tired of seeing ads while studying? The scope of these verses is to show, 1. A time to embrace a friend when we find him faithful, but a time to refrain from embracing when we find he is unfair or unfaithful, and that we have cause to suspect him; it is then our prudence to be shy and keep at a distance. It's complete. Observe, The time of mourning and weeping is put first, before that of laughter and dancing, for we must first sow in tears and then reap in joy. Note, (1.) What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he. Now the word translated world there in the Hebrew is eternity or the ages. Here we have. We turn from 3:1-8 to a contrasting view of life in 9-13. There is a time for men to break up house, and break off trade, and so to break down, which those that are busy in building up both must expect and prepare for. Those things which to us seem most casual and contingent are, in the counsel and foreknowledge of God, punctually determined, and the very hour of them is fixed, and can neither be anticipated nor adjourned a moment. In Ecclesiastes, judgment in this age could conceivably be intended in the noted time for God to judge in Ecclesiastes 3:17 Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. He, then, who lives without God, travails in pain all his days. That is, he has none. And the Hebrew idea is that of the monotony of life. though it is man's duty to labour, yet all his toil and labour will be fruitless without a divine blessing; there is a time and season for everything in providence, and there is no striving against that. and God requires that which is past ( Ecclesiastes 3:15 ). And I can't go around and say, "Well, I'm so righteous, so much more righteous than you, you sinner, you know. You see, not only are we living in this time continuum, but we are also living in this finite existence and it is impossible that the finite can understand the infinite. 1:3 ) ( 2:11 ) ; Some of these changes are purely the act of God, others depend more upon the will of man, but all are determined by the divine counsel. Nor can you take away from that righteousness that I have, that perfect standing that I have before God in Jesus Christ. And I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts ( Ecclesiastes 3:16-18 ). Because there are laws governing the issues and events of life that are beyond man’s ability to regulate, Solomon asks – Ecclesiastes 3:9. a. 1. So when you can escape the time zone. You're no longer within, you're no longer bounded by time, beginning and end; you're now in the eternal. The Targum adds, "to make treasures and gather mammon, unless he is helped by Providence above;''. The writer is confident that God does everything perfectly according to his plan, but he is also frustrated because he does not know what that plan is. "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." Therefore he concludes. After briefly flirting with a confidence in eternity (Ecclesiastes 3:9-15), the Preacher has returned to his under the sun thinking. A time to kill, when the judgments of God are abroad in a land and lay all waste; but, when he returns in ways of mercy, then is a time to heal what he has torn (Hosea 6:1; Hosea 6:2), to comfort a people after the time that he has afflicted them,Psalms 90:15. I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. What does the worker gain from his toil? 10. 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Everything Has Its Time. Ecclesiastes 3:9, NIV: "What do workers gain from their toil?" 2. He has made everything beautiful in its time. That every change concerning us, with the time and season of it, is unalterably fixed and determined by a supreme power; and we must take things as they come, for it is not in our power to change what is appointed for us. Under that premise, nothing is better than for a man to accomplish what he can in this world and try – the best he can – not to … You can only make childish illustrations, but you can't cross the gulf from the finite to the infinite. But whatever God does, that's forever. laboureth? As you get into the eternal, it is the now zone. Hate is a word I do not … This truth becomes more manifestly true in things in proportion as their nature rises. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Explanation and Commentary of Ecclesiastes 3:11. THE DISQUIETING QUESTION OF AUTUMN. He has made everything beautiful in its time. If I could only, you know, read ten chapters of the Bible everyday, then I could be more righteous. Even though things are beautiful—and in an overall sense, he means life is beautiful—it is perplexing because we cannot figure out what God is doing. In the wheel of nature (James 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by the contrary; there is a constant ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning; from one extreme to the other does the fashion of this world change, ever did, and ever will. Necessity drives him to the principal part of his cares and toils; he labours that he may eat and drink; and he eats and drinks that he may be preserved alive, and kept from sickness and pain. What profit do you get out of your labor? A time to rend the garments, as upon occasion of some great grief, and a time to sew, them again, in token that the grief is over. Now. A time to break down a family, an estate, a kingdom, when it has ripened itself for destruction; but God will find a time, if they return and repent, to rebuild what he has broken down; there is a time, a set time, for the Lord to build up Zion,Psalms 102:13; Psalms 102:16. I'm so unrighteous." Nevertheless, work is a good thing. This accounts for all science, philosophy, and human knowledge, as well as theology." You say, "Well, I don't understand that." (3.) There is a great deal of toil and trouble to be seen among the children of men. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?] I can't add to it. 8. Well, the Lord Jesus Christ knows, and He declares it to be true. so that a man has no preeminence above the beast: for all is vanity ( Ecclesiastes 3:19 ). Because the planet rotates on its axis about once every twenty-four hours, we call it a day. The description of Qoheleth’s exploration of pleasure (Ecclesiastes 2:1-3), impressive accomplishments (Ecclesiastes 2:4-6), and unparalleled wealth (Ecclesiastes 2:7-10) were fulfilled only by King Solomon. ( Ecclesiastes 3:9 ). Ecclesiastes 3:9-22.—R. The message of Ecclesiastes is that the course of life to be pursued is a God-centered life. Those things which seem most contrary the one to the other will, in the revolution of affairs, each take their turn and come into play. The inferences drawn from this observation. (Ecc 3:9 NIV). People may be ignorant of God’s timing (3:9–11), but they are called to enjoy life in the present (3:12–13) and trust in God’s sovereignty (3:14–15). Verse Ecclesiastes 3:9. What do workers gain from their toil? But the earth would have gone through three million orbits around the sun, which those who are living upon the earth would have counted as years. Any event that has ever taken place is taking place. Ecclesiastes 4:1-16 The Evils of Oppression. The proof and illustration of it by the induction of particulars, twenty-eight in number, according to the days of the moon's revolution, which is always increasing or decreasing between its full and change. All our pains and care will not alter either the mutable nature of the things themselves or the immutable counsel of God concerning them. Ecclesiastes 3:9-14 New International Version (NIV) 9 What do workers gain from their toil? A time when it becomes us, and is our wisdom and duty, to keep silence, when it is an evil time (Amos 5:13), when our speaking would be the casting of pearl before swine, or when we are in danger of speaking amiss (Psalms 39:2); but there is also a time to speak for the glory of God and the edification of others, when silence would be the betraying of a righteous cause, and when with the mouth confession is to be made to salvation; and it is a great part of Christian prudence to know when to speak and when to hold our peace. Every purpose has its time. Is it winter? Ecclesiastes is a phonetic transliteration of the Greek word Ἐκκλησιαστής (Ekklesiastes), which in the Septuagint translates the Hebrew name of its stated author, Kohelet (קֹהֶלֶת). I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I can't get a set of rules and start doing all these nice little things and be more righteous. Ecclesiastes 3:9, ESV: "What gain has the worker from his toil?" As I said, Ecclesiastes 3:9-10 speak of Man’s Work Revisited. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. That is, he has none. A beautiful flower blooms, but it is only beautiful for a little while, not always. I'm such a sinner. But this is not true. God said, "I am." one thing that elevates us above the animal world, in addition to the God-given sense of eternity [Ecclesiastes 3:11], is the desire to understand the whole. 3. Well, join the crowd. He's looking at man from the purely humanistic standpoint. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible. The pleasures of life are not intrinsically fulfilling and cannot offer lasting satisfaction, but they can be enjoyed as gifts from God. Now some men seek to sublimate that consciousness. Complete Concise Chapter Contents. God has actually set the ages in every man's heart. A time of war, when God draws the sword for judgment and gives it commission to devour, when men draw the sword for justice and the maintaining of their rights, when there is in the nations a disposition to war; but we may hope for a time of peace, when the sword of the Lord shall be sheathed and he shall make wars to cease (Psalms 46:9), when the end of the war is obtained, and when there is on all sides a disposition to peace. God accounts you righteous in His sight. 13. God is counting me righteous because I am trusting and believing in His work in Jesus Christ. It isn't, "Oh, the glorious time to love and a time to plant," you know, as we make it very romantic today. The Preacher tells us four things about God that apply to our work-a-day lives (Ecclesiastes 3:9–15): First, work is God’s gift to us. Ecclesiastes 3:9 Context. (2.) Yet, after all these useful thoughts, there comes to us, as to Ecclesiastes in ver. Title. ( Ecclesiastes 3:21 ). God is in the eternal dimension. 2. 5. There is no net gain in one’s toil given Solomon’s perspective. 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men … There is a time and a season, a time and a purpose under heaven to everything: there is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to break down, a time to build up; a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, a time to dance; a time to cast ( Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 ). of Because the earth is in an orbit around the sun every 365 days and nine hours and fifty-six minutes and 4/100's of a second, we call that a year. They can change nothing; events will go on repeating themselves according to God’s fixed purposes. 11 He has made everything beautiful in … And that's that deep, spiritual drive that every man has that can only be filled by coming to Jesus Christ and drinking of the water that He gives. It doesn't make me any more righteous. Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. its contrary, so that there is nothing certain, and to be That is looking at man from a humanistic standpoint. God gives it to men, as the physician gives a medicine to his patient, to do him good. My works are going to be forgotten. You are righteous in God's sight. There is a time for men to plant, a time of the year, a time of their lives; but, when that which was planted has grown fruitless and useless, it is time to pluck it up. Just a time, a time, a time, a time. This is an inference drawn from the above premises, and confirms what has been before observed, Ecclesiastes 1:3; Man has no profit of his labour, since his time is so short to enjoy it, and he leaves it to another, he knows not who; and, while he lives, is attended with continual vicissitudes and changes; sometimes it is a time for one thing, and sometimes for its contrary, so that there is nothing certain, and to be depended on; and a man can promise himself nothing in this world pleasant or profitable to him, and much less that will be of any advantage to him hereafter. I had orginally entitled this ‘The Burden of Eternity and Beauty’ but I … You can't add to the work of God. Ecclesiastes 3 – The Reign of Time, A Glimmer of Hope A. It is given to us that we may be kept in action, and may always have something to do; for we were none of us sent into the world to be idle. Then we must look upon ourselves as upon our probation in it. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. A time to love, and to show ourselves friendly, to be free and cheerful, and it is a pleasant time; but there may come a time to hate, when we shall see cause to break off all familiarity with some that we have been fond of, and to be upon the reserve, as having found reason for a suspicion, which love is loth to admit. There is indeed no profit in that wherein we labour; the thing itself, when we have it, will do us little good; but, if we make a right use of the disposals of Providence about it, there will be profit in that (Ecclesiastes 3:10; Ecclesiastes 3:10): I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men, not to make up a happiness by it, but to be exercised in it, to have various graces exercised by the variety of events, to have their dependence upon God tried by every change, and to be trained up to it, and taught both how to want and how to abound,Philippians 4:12. And that's why the world around you is so filled with frustration and emptiness today, because it views man as an animal. Some men seek to deny that consciousness. The day will give place to the night and the night again to the day. CHAPTER 3. 9. This is an inference drawn from the above . We measure the time in hours. The Targum adds. It appears to him that everything happens at the time God has decided it will happen. The work of God in imputing righteousness to me.So I don't need to go around hanging my head, "Oh, I'm so miserable today. Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 The Meaning of Pleasure. Ecclesiastes 3:9 is a question, not a statement saying that there is no profit at all in labor: “In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury [poor poverty … A time to cast away stones, by breaking down and demolishing fortifications, when God gives peace in the borders, and there is no more occasion for them; but there is a time to gather stones together, for the making of strong-holds, Ecclesiastes 3:5; Ecclesiastes 3:5. This is the purely human view of life. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Man is made in the image and likeness of God. I. A time for God to plant a nation, as that of Israel in Canaan, and, in order to that, to pluck up the seven nations that were planted there, to make room for them; and at length there was a time when God spoke concerning Israel too, to pluck up and to destroy, when the measure of their iniquity was full, Jeremiah 18:7; Jeremiah 18:9. My favourite Gospel book! Ecclesiastes 2:12-26 Wisdom Makes Sense. People can only accept whatever God sends them and find pleasure in it (10-13). It's full. And in three million years, you could return to the earth on that ray of light and you would be about a day older. ] I'm grasping and reaching for that which is eternal. So with God, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day" ( 2 Peter 3:8 ). Then we must not expect our portion in it, for the good things of it are of no certainty, no continuance (Ecclesiastes 3:9; Ecclesiastes 3:9): What profit has he that works? (1-8) A time for every purpose. A time to keep, when we have use for what we have got, and can keep it without running the hazard of a good conscience; but there may come a time to cast away, when love to God may oblige us to cast away what we have, because we must deny Christ and wrong our consciences if we keep it (Matthew 10:37; Matthew 10:38), and rather to make shipwreck of all than of the faith; nay, when love to ourselves may oblige us to cast it away, when it is for the saving of our lives, as it was when Jonah's mariners heaved their cargo into the sea. Make a U-turn, head back to the earth. That which has been is now; that which shall be has already been.
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