July 20, 2022: Day 153 – Ecclesiastes 1-6

Ecclesiastes is thought to have been written by King Solomon.  The description of himself is such that he can say in vs.12: “I the teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem, applied my mind to seek and to search out wisdom.”  We know that God provided Solomon with the type of wisdom that was godly.  No one else ever had the type of wisdom that Solomon had.  It also states that he had more wealth and more pleasure, and more concubines, and more of basically everything than any other king, yeah, that fits Solomon’s bill.

There are a few significant passages in these first 6 chapters.  The one that everyone knows is found in Ecclesiastes 3, to everything there is a season.  Think about what that means.  To everything there is a season, everything.  There are certainly some things that we would prefer would be eternally out of season, but that simply is not the case according to Solomon, and I’ll take his word for it.  

In chapter 4 we have Scriptures that Stacy and I used for our wedding and you heard the words: “Two are better than one…”  It continues and it provides a wonderful background for friendship and companionship and even marriage if you want to take that metaphor that far.  When it speaks about a threefold cord it isn’t much of a leap to talk about the three cords being the bride, groom, and Jesus.  Now that is a threefold cord.