Ecclesiastes 3:16-22

Read Ecclesiastes 3:9-15, 3:16-22

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Ecclesiastes 3:16 “Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.”

17

Ecclesiastes 3:17 “I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.”

What can we see from this verse about the judgement?

Maybe go back to the beauty of the judgement and we can take comfort in that God will not any injustice or sin slide or not be paid for.

Judgement and punishment for sin’s are not in our hands it is for God

18

Ecclesiastes 3:18 “I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.”

19

Ecclesiastes 3:19 “For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.”

Start with asking what Solomon means by saying that man has no advantages over the beast?

20

Ecclesiastes 3:20 “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.”

21

Ecclesiastes 3:21 “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?”

Also we from our physical experience we do not see what happens at/after death

22

Ecclesiastes 2:22 “What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?”