Friday, June 25, 2021

Solomon's Purpose for Writing Ecclesiastes

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.Eccl.12:13, 14.  
 
Solomon's later writings reveal that 
---as he realized more and still more the wickedness of his course
---he gave special attention to warning the youth against falling into the errors that had led him to squander for nought Heaven's choicest gifts. 
 
With sorrow and shame he confessed that in the prime of manhood,
when he should have found God his comfort, his support, his life, he turned from the light of Heaven and the wisdom of God, and put idolatry in the place of the worship of Jehovah. 
---And now, having learned through sad experience the folly of such a life, his yearning desire was to save others from entering into the bitter experience through which he had passed." E.G.W.