Sunday, February 21, 2021

ECCLESIASTES 12 SERIES - Summary

"Solomon acknowledged that "the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart." Ecclesiastes 9:3.
And so complete was his apostasy, so hardened his heart in
transgression, that his case seemed well-nigh hopeless. 
 
From the joy of divine communion, Solomon turned to find satisfaction in the pleasures of sense.... Yet the Lord forsook him not. By messages of reproof and by severe judgments, He sought to arouse the king to a realization of the sinfulness of his course.....Solomon with quickened conscience began to see his folly in its true light. 
 
Chastened in spirit, with mind and body enfeebled, 
he turned wearied and thirsting from earth's broken cisterns
to drink once more at the fountain of life.
 
 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter," he wrote: "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Verses 13, 14."
E.G.W.