THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES (CHAPTER EIGHT)

 

          ECCLESIASTES WAS WRITTEN TO THE MAN UNDER THE SUN (FLESH MAN).

                    IT TEACHES US HOW TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE WHILE IN THE FLESH.

Ecclesiastes 8:1  Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing (WHO IS LIKE HIM THAT KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS THINGS)? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed (HIS FACE WOULD NOT BE GLOOMY. WISDOM COMES FROM GOD).

8:2  I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

8:3  Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

DO NOT DEPART FROM GOD AND PUSH OFF INTO REBELLION.

8:4  Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, 'What doest thou?'

THE TRUE KING IS GOD AND THERE IS POWER IN HIS WAY.

8:5  Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

8:6  Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

THERE IS EVIL UPON HIM IF YOU DON'T DISCERN TIME AND JUDGMENT.

8:7  For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be ?

GOD CAN TELL YOU IF YOU ASK FOR HIS DIRECTION.

8:8  There is no man that hath power over the spirit (WIND) to retain the spirit (WIND); neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge (NOT GETTING OUT OF IT) in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

YOU CAN'T CONTROL THE WIND AND YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHEN YOU WILL DIE.

8:9  All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

IT CAN BE A RULER THAT HAS COMPASSION AND YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

8:10  And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

IN THE FUNERAL OF THE WICKED THEY ONLY SAY THE GOOD THINGS HE HAD DONE, NOT THE BAD. THIS IS EMPTINESS, BECAUSE HE IS GOING TO BE JUDGED BY GOD AND HE WON'T GET AWAY FROM THE BAD THINGS HE HAS DONE.

8:11  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

CONSEQUENCE OF GOD'S SUSPENDED JUDGMENT.

JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE SPEEDY, NOT WAIT YEARS BEFORE SOMEONE IS PERSECUTED.

8:12  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear (LOVE) God, which fear before Him:

LOVING GOD BRINGS WISDOM.

8:13  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall be prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not God.

YOU HAVE NO SHADOW IN DARKNESS.

IN OTHER WORDS, GOD WILL TAKE THE WICKED OUT SPIRITUALLY.

8:14  There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said this is also vanity.

IT SEEMS THAT WICKED MEN GET AHEAD.

IT'S NOT TRUE BECAUSE THEY WILL CEASE TO EXIST AFTER JUDGMENT.

THEY ARE LIKE DEAD MEN WALKING.

THIS LIFE IS SHORT...IT'S NOT OUR TRUE HOME.

8:15  Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

YOUR FACE SHINES WHEN IT'S MERRY. ENJOY THE LIFE GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.

HE WANTS YOU TO BE HAPPY.

8:16  When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business (TRAVAIL) that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

TRAVAIL IS EDUCATIONAL THAT TEACHES YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM IT.

8:17  Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

WITHOUT GOD'S HELP YOU CANNOT FIND IT.  ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD'S WISDOM TO FIND THE ANSWER TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.

GOD BLESS

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