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The Bible Recap

Day 170 (Ecclesiastes 1-6) - Year 7

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

0:12.9

Today we started Ecclesiastes, which is part of the wisdom literature in scripture, and tomorrow we'll finish it.

0:19.3

It's written by someone called the preacher or the teacher,

0:22.2

and that may or may not be Solomon, but many people believe it points to the life of Solomon,

0:27.4

regardless of who wrote it. This book is ultimately about a grand experiment that the main character

0:32.3

sets up. He has lots of resources at his disposal, and he wants to find out how to live the best, most

0:38.4

joyful kind of life. Then he unpacks everything he learns so that we don't have to go

0:43.3

through this experiment for ourselves. He basically buys every single thing on Amazon and writes

0:48.1

a concise 12-chapter review sharing all his data with us to let us know what's worth our time

0:52.7

and energy and money. Right out of the

0:55.2

gate in verse two, we get an idea of how he feels about it all. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, he says.

1:02.0

The word he uses for vanity here is hevel, which means vapor or smoke. But it also carries

1:08.5

the connotation of something that's hard to grasp.

1:16.0

He uses this word 38 times in this book, so it's definitely part of his overarching theme.

1:19.0

Here are some of the things he learns through his observations.

1:21.1

He starts out addressing work.

1:24.6

All hard work is eventually negated by death.

1:26.6

You and I see this all the time.

1:29.3

Buildings decay, technology is outdated, and even our income is diminished by taxes. It's just a reminder of the futility of work.

1:35.3

Not only that, but our names will be forgotten when we die. And even amassing knowledge

1:40.2

doesn't enhance the preacher's life. He basically says ignorance is bliss. 118 says,

1:47.0

In Much Wisdom is Much Vexation, and He who increases knowledge increases sorrow. He's worked hard,

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