Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 Enjoy Good Labor and God Adds Joy to Wisdom and Knowledge
24a There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. Here is another translation based on the Hebrew text. There is nothing more pleasant for a human being than to eat and drink and go forth and make the soul agreable for labor. 24b This […]
Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete and All was Vanity
9 Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem The experiment comes to an end and all three parts of the exercise are restated; Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly, Vanity of Physical Stimulation, and Vanity of Increasing Wealth. An argument can be made that these things do […]
Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 Experiment Part 1 Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.” As the collector set out of this experiment, to learn wisdom in all actions under the sun, the first area of actions the […]
Be Driven by the Spirit of God, Not by Life in Pursuit of Intoxication
The Ephesians seem to have achieved part of this admonition but they lost the impetus which is the filling of the Spirit. In Revelations chapter 2 we see the that the Ephesians exposed darkness: