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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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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1:29.3 | Buildings decay, technology is outdated, and even our income is diminished by taxes.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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