THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES (CHAPTER TWO)

 

                              HOW TO HAVE A PEACE OF MIND IN OUR FLESH BODY.

SOLOMON HAD ALL THE RICHES IN THE WORLD, PLUS WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE, BUT HE WAS MISSING SOMETHING...

Ecclesiastes 2:1  I said in mine heart (SOLOMON SPEAKING), 'Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure:' and, behold, this also is vanity.

2:2  I said of laughter, 'It is mad:' and of mirth, 'What does it?'

HE IS ADDRESSING HIS OWN PLEASURE.

2:3  I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all their days of their life.

I LEARNT HOW TO ENLIST, BY WINE, MY VERY FLESH (IN THE WORK): THE WORK OF PROVING THE HEART WITH MIRTH---"YET RETAINING WISDOM".

2:4  I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:

I INCREASED OR MULTIPLIED MY POSSESSIONS.

2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits:

I MADE MY OWN PARADISE.

2:6  I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood (FOREST) that bringeth forth trees:

2:7  I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

2:8  I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

2:9  So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

THE DIVINE WISDOM GIVEN BY GOD (I KINGS 3:5-15) HAD NOT BEEN TAKEN AWAY. THIS MUST BE REMEMBERED IN READING THIS BOOK. LIKE LUKE'S "UNDERSTANDING" IT CAME "FROM ABOVE".

2:10  And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.

GOD BLESSED HIM WELL.

2:11  Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit (FEEDING ON WIND), and there was no profit under the sun.

MATERIAL THINGS WILL NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY.

2:12  And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

2:13  Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly (FOLLY=FOOLISHNESS), as far as light excelleth darkness.

FOOLISHNESS WILL GET YOU NOWHERE.

2:14  The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all (I TOO KNEW AS WELL AS THEY).

YOU WANT TO LOOK PAST THE FLESH BODY. YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF IS MORE IMPORTANT. 

2:15  Then said I in my heart, 'As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity (EMPTINESS).

RICH, POOR, WISE, FOOL, ALL GOING TO DIE.  BUT LIFE BEGINS AT DEATH FOR THE BELIEVER.

2:16  For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And now dieth the wise man? as the fool.

DON'T PLACE EVERYTHING IN THE FLESH BODY ; IT'S NOT GOING TO LAST LONG.

2:17  Therefore I hated life (I WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH LIFE); Because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity (EMPTINESS) and vexation of spirit (CHASING THE WIND).

2:18  Yea, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

IN OTHER WORDS, SOMEBODY ELSE WAS GOING TO ENJOY THE FRUIT OF MY LABOR AFTER I DIED.

2:19  And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

AND WHO KNOWS IF THE NEXT PERSON THAT WILL TAKE OVER WILL BE WISE OR A FOOL? THIS IS ALSO EMPTINESS.

2:20  Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.

BE HAPPY FOR WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISH IN THIS LIFE, BUT LOOK TO GOD FOR YOUR GIFTS.

2:21  For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity (DO WHAT IS RIGHT);yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil (CALAMITY, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DIE IT GOES TO SOMEONE ELSE).

2:22  For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under the sun ?

2:23  For all his days are sorrows, and his travail (LABOR) grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also a vanity.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT EVERYTHING. FIX THE PROBLEM; GOD WILL ALWAYS FIND YOU A WAY OUT IF YOU LISTEN.

2:24  There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

WHEN YOU TURN YOUR SOUL TO HIM YOU CAN ENJOY LIFE.

WITHOUT GOD LIFE IS EMPTY.

2:25  For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto (WHO CAN ENJOY) more than I ?

2:26  For God giveth to a man that is good in His sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner He giveth travail (TROUBLE), to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

IF YOU LOVE GOD YOU WILLHAVE A PEACE OF MIND, BUT FOR A SINNER HE CAN WORK ALL HE WANTS BUT HIS WORK COMES TO NOUGHT.

NO PEACE OF MIND AND NO ETERNAL LIFE.

GOD BLESS

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THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES (CHAPTER ONE)

 

THE NAME OF THIS BOOK COMES DIRECT FROM THE LATIN VULGATE THROUGH THE SEPTUAGINT VERSION.  THE HEBREW NAME IS KOHELETH=ASSEMBLER. 

IT IS WRITTEN BY SOLOMON AND IT TEACHES YOU HOW TO HAVE A PEACE OF MIND IN THE FLESH.

THIS BOOK FORMED PART OF THE HEBREW BIBLE LONG BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST, AND IS THEREFORE INCLUDED IN HIS WORD, "THE SCRIPTURES" (MATT. 22:29, II TIMOTHY 3:16).

SOLOMON'S WISDOM WAS GIVEN HIM BY GOD (I KINGS 3:5-12, 4:29:34), AND THIS "WISDOM" WAS THEREFORE "FROM ABOVE" (JAS. 3:17), AS LUKE WAS (LUKE 1:3).

Eccl. 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king to Jerusalem.

THE PREACHER= THIS COMES FROM LUTHER'S VERSION; "KOHELETH" DOES NOT INCLUDE THE IDEA OF PREACHING.

1:2 "Vanity of vanities," saith the Preacher, "vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

1:3  What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun  (THE FLESH MAN)?

IT REFERS TO ALL THAT IS CONNECTED WITH EARTHLY THINGS AS SUCH, AND WITH MAN APART FROM GOD, BUT WHAT IS STATED IS INSPIRED TRUTH.

1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever (FOR AGES IN THE HEBREW).

THE WORLD IN RELATION TO TIME PAST AND FUTURE: AS WE USE IT WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, THE OLD WORLD, THE MODERN WORLD, THE WORLD TO COME.

1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to this place where he arose.

1:6 The wind (RUACH IN THE HEBREW) goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits (SEASONS).

THE FIRST PART OF VERSE 6 CONTINUES THE MOTION OF THE SUN, GOING TO THE SOUTH (IN WINTER) AND TURNING ABOUT TO THE NORTH (IN SUMMER).

THE WIND ACCORDING TO HIS SEASONS IS THE SUBJECT OF VERSE 6.

1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

THE RIVERS ARE NOT GOING TO OVERFLOW.

1:8 All things are full of labor (WEARINESS); man (FLESH MAN) cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

1:9  The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

1:10  Is there anything whereof it may be said, 'See this is new?' it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

THIS EARTH IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD. IT HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE MAN WAS CREATED IN THE FLESH.

MAKE A NOTE OF II PETER 3:5-7.

1:11  There is no remembrance of former things (MEN IN THE FLESH); neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THE FLESH DIES IT GOES BACK TO THE GROUND. THERE IS NO REMEBRANCE OF IT. THE SPIRIT GOES BACK TO THE FATHER WHO GAVE IT (ECCL. 12:7).

1:12  I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

SOLOMON KNEW THAT THE KINGDOM WAS TO BE RENT (I KINGS 11:11-12) AND THE PEOPLE SCATTERED; THEREFORE HE SOUGHT TO KILL JEROBOAM (I KINGS 11:39-40).

1:13  And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven (THE ARAMAIC, AND SYRIAN TEXTS SAY, "UNDER THE SUN".): this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

GOD= ELOHIM IN THE HEBREW. THE TITLE "YAHAVEH" IS NOT USED IN ECCLESIASTES, AS THIS BOOK REFERS TO MAN IN RELATION TO HIS CREATOR ONLY;NOT TO MAN IN COVENANT WITH HIM AS "YAHAVEH".

1:14  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit (CHASING AFTER THE WIND).

1:15  That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

1:16  I communed with mine own heart, saying, 'Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem:' yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

SOLOMON HAD GREAT WISDOM GIVEN BY GOD.

1:17  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness (THE OPPOSITE OF WISDOM, AS DISPLAYED IN THE LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL; RAVING WITH SELF-CONCEIT) and folly (INFATUATION): I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

I FAILED TO FIND PEACE OF MIND IN WISDOM.

1:18  For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

WHEN YOU KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG YOU ARE NO LONGER INNOCENT ; YOU ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS. 

GOD BLESS

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BECAUSE YOU SINNED MORE THAN THE NATIONS

 

GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH PEOPLE FOLLOWING MEN'S DOCTRINES AND TRADITIONS INSTEAD OF HIM.

IDOLATRY IS WORSE IN OUR TIME THAN THE BIBLICAL TIMES.

Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; "This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations (GENTILES) and countries that are round about her.

IT'S ALL FUTURE.

GOD IS SAYING, 'I HAVE SET A SIGN'.

5:6  And she hath changed (REBELLED AGAINST) My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused My judgments and My statutes, they have not walked in them."

5:7  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; "Because ye multiplied more than the nations (YOU WERE MORE SINFUL THAN THE OTHER NATIONS) that are round about you, and have not walked in My statutes, neither have kept My judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

5:8  Therefore" thus saith the Lord GOD; "Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

EVERYONE WILL WITNESS MY CHASTISEMENT TOWARD YOU.

5:9  And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do anymore the like, because of all thine abominations.

5:10  Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

THEY CONSUME THEIR HERITAGE BECAUSE OF STUPOR, IF THE FATHER FORGETS TO TELL THE SON...THEY FORGOT WHERE THEY CAME FROM EVEN TO THIS DAY.

ISRAEL (NOT THE COUNTRY OF TODAY'S ISRAEL) CALL THEMSELVES GENTILES.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.

5:11  Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled My sanctuary with all thy destestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall Mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

YOU TEACH MEN'S DOCTRINES AND TRADITIONS INSTEAD OF MY WORD AS IT IS WRITTEN, IN MY SANCTUARY.

THEREFORE, YOU WILL BE CHASTISED BY ME.

5:12  A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine (THE FAMINE OF THE END TIMES IS HEARING THE WORD OF GOD AS IT IS WRITTEN; AMOS 8:11-13) shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

REFERRING TO THE SEALS, VIALS, TRUMPS OF THE END TIMES.

MAKE A NOTE OF DANIEL 7, REV. 7.

5:13  Thus shall Mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in My zeal (JEALOUSY), when I have accomplished My fury in them.

5:14  Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

WATCH JERUSALEM...SHE IS THE CENTER OF PROPHECY.

5:15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

THIS IS UPON CHRIST'S RETURN. HE WILL SET HIS KINGDOM IN JERUSALEM.

5:16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

THIS IS AN ANALOGY HE IS USING. THE FAMINE OF THE END TIMES IS HEARING THE WORD OF GOD (AMOS 8:11-13).

VERY FEW CHURCHES TODAY TEACH HIS WORD CHAPTER BY CHAPTER, VERSE BY VERSE.

5:17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

THERE ARE TWO SWORDS...ONE IS CHRIST'S, AND ONE IS SATAN'S.

SATAN'S SWORD IS THE SWORD OF LIES HE IS GOING TO POUR UPON THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH (EXCEPT THE ELECT).

CHRIST'S SWORD IS THE 2EDGED SWORD WHICH IS HIS WORD.

THE BEASTS OF THE END TIME IS SATAN'S POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEM.

GOD BLESS

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YAHAVEH'S RIGHTEOUS KING

 

THE KING REIGNING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE EVENTS PRIOR TO HIS COMING KINGDOM.

Isaiah 32:1 behold, a king (JESUS) shall reign in righteousness, and princes (GOD'S ELECT) shall rule in judgment.

32:2  And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert (A PLACE TO HIDE) from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

THE KING AND THE PRINCES WILL BE THE HIDING PLACE TO KEEP THE BLISTERING WIND AWAY FROM YOU.

32:3  And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

EVERYONE'S EYES WILL BE OPENED TO SEE THE TRUTH IN THE MILLENNIUM (CHRIST'S THOUDAND YEAR REIGN).

32:4  The heart also of the rash (HASTY) shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE ANYONE WHO SAYS 'I DON'T UNDERSTAND GOD'S WORD'.

32:5  The vile person (THE FOOL) shall be no more called liberal (NOBLE IN THE HEBREW), nor the churl (COVETOUS) said to be bountiful.

32:6  For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error (LIES) against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

THE FOOL WILL SPREAD LIES AGAINST THE LORD AND HIS WORD TO THE BIBLICAL ILLITERATE PERSON AND THEREFORE, HE WILL CAUSE HIM TO FALL SPIRITUALLY.

32:7  The instruments (TOOLS) also of the churl (COVETOUS) are evil: he deviseth (COUNSELS) wicked devices to destroy the poor (THE ONES WHO LACK KNOWLEDGE FROM THE WORD OF GOD) with lying words, even when the needy (HELPLESS, WEAK IN WILL AND WEALTH) speaketh right.

32:8  But the liberal (NOBLE) deviseth liberal things (BEING HONEST WITH GOD); and by liberal things shall he stand.

32:9  Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters (SELF-CONFIDENCE IN IRONY); give ear unto my speech.

WOMEN= "WOMEN" BEING PUT FOR THE WHOLE NATION, NOW REDUCED BY SIN TO UTTER WEAKNESS.

32:10  Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women (NO GENDER): for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

IF YOU ARE CARELESS GOD WON'T BLESS YOU.

32:11  Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

WOMEN IS SYMBOLIC OF ISRAEL THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE OF FOLLOW CHRIST.

32:12  They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

THEY HIRED PEOPLE BACK THEN TO BEAT THEIR BREAST FOR A SHOW.

32:13  Upon the land of My people shall come up thorns and briers (TO MAKE A HOT FIRE. IT'S A PROVERB); yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

32:14  Because the palaces shall be forsaken (NEGLECTED); the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens forever (PUT FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD, NOT FOREVER. IT WILL BE FOR THE PERIOD THEY ARE NEGLECTED), a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

32:15  Until the spirit (THE HOLY SPIRIT) be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

HE WILL MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN (IN THE HEBREW).

32:16  Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

BECAUSE GOD IS IN CONTROL.

32:17  And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.

CHRIST IS THE KING OF PEACE.

THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE ANY PEACE UPON THE WORLD UNTIL CHRIST RETURNS.

32:18  And My People shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

FUTURE.

32:19  When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city (THE CITY OF THE ASSYRIAN OR THE FALSE CHRIST) shall be low in a low place.

32:20  Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

BLESSED IS THE ONE THAT KNOW HOW TO PLAN SEEDS.

GOD BLESS

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