Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast. Right now we're going through the entire Bible

to understand it as one big cohesive story. We're covering one book each day, and this

one's about Ecclesiastes.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt. Thanks for hanging out with me and talking about the book

of Ecclesiastes, which I've been sitting here thinking about it, so I can already tell

my tone is different than it normally is on these because it's so somber and reflective

in this book has resonated with me and touched my heart at every point of my story as a

person, because it deals with the question that everybody asks at some point, not even

at some point, at multiple points over the course of their life, but we ask this question

in different ways over the course of our lives. And that question is, what's the point?

What am I doing here? What is all of this activity I'm engaged in even mean? What

is even the beautiful stuff about life even mean? Ecclesiastes is part of the wisdom and

writing literature of the Old Testament along with Job, Psalms and Proverbs, and then Ecclesiastes

and then the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon. Now on the surface, it looks like Ecclesiastes

is holding itself out as being written probably by Solomon. This is the opening line, the

words of the preacher or the teacher, the son of David, King and Jerusalem. Later on in

the book, the first person author talks about how they were wiser than anybody else and

all of their achievements and money and wealth, and they talk about the hollowness of that

stuff. So it really does seem to line up that this is Solomon, which can then cause

the reader to be like, well, probably the companion book in this wisdom literature to

Ecclesiastes then would be Proverbs because they both look like they have a whole lot

of Solomon in them, but I don't think that's the case. I think the companion book of

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