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The Secret Code

By on November 2, 2015 in Articles, Kohelet, Koheleth with 4 Comments

In 1934 the Ovaltine company gave a secret decoder ring to anyone who joined the “Little Orphan Annie” club. With the ring you were able to reveal the real message hidden in a line of plain text. Today, a great many books and sermons about Ecclesiastes also offer a secret code that unlocks the message […]

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C. S. Lewis and Kohelet

In 1964 C. S. Lewis wrote a book on the Psalms where he makes a passing reference to Ecclesiastes. He is speaking of how even the most dire parts of the Bible can still shed light upon our understanding of God. He argues against dissecting these difficult texts through exposition and instead, letting them wash […]

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NOTHING NEW?

A blog post asked if the statement “There is nothing new under the sun” was depressing. My response is below. Kohelet, the writer of Ecclesiastes, states just before this section that his goal in writing was to answer the question, “What do we gain from all the work at which we toil under the sun?” […]

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SHUT YOUR MOUTH

ORIGINAL POST FOUND ONLINE http://hereiblog.com/sunday-considerations-fear-worship-051114/ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. (Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 ESV) Meditate on the above verses as you prepare for corporate worship this […]

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Beautiful in its time?

If you type the words “beautiful in its time” into your web browser and click on images your screen will fill up with flowers, butterflies and sunsets – all with those famous words from Ecclesiastes plastered over top of them in flowing script. What you won’t see is a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb […]

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I WANT MORE

The New American Dream By Bradly Big dreams are fine and the ‘you can be whatever you want to be’ attitude is encouraging. However, these are usually symptoms of “The New American Dream”. I sarcastically call this The New American Dream because it is truthfully materialism wrapped up in the idea of the American Dream. Now […]

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TURN, TURN, TURN

By on April 28, 2014 in Uncategorized with No Comments

QUESTION What is the poem in Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 saying? VANSWER Often people make the mistake of seeing the “Time Poem” as saying that God makes things everything happen in the perfect time for us, yet the whole theme of Ecclesiastes is the examination of “everything people work at under the sun.” The poem is a […]

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SMOKE AND MIRRORS

By on April 24, 2014 in Ecclesiastes, God, joy, Pleasure, Spirituality, Vanity, Youth with No Comments

COMMENT http://lifeisajest.wordpress.com You’re walking along—doesn’t matter where, or when, for that matter, if the lighting is good—and you pass a window. One of those floor-to-ceiling types of things that catch your feet and way past your head all in one frame. It’s dark on the other side, creating the perfect mirror effect to display your […]

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A BITTER OLD MAN

COMMENT http://antinoos89.wordpress.com The Teacher seems angry that nothing they do or learn will be original or new—something no one but himself has done before, and because so, no one in the future generations will remember his doings or his wisdom.  All though he seems wise at times and teaches wisdom to others he seems to […]

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FAHRENHEIT 451

QUESTION In Fahrenheit 451, what event or quote is in reference to Ecclesiastes? VANSWER The men with Montag (the one who has memorized parts of Ecclesiastes) have just seen the city across the river incinerated by the bombers. They decide to go back to the city to search for survivors and Granger (their leader) speaks […]

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