How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith faith in his excellent word.

It's a great day to study God's word.

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm your host Steve Schweetz,

and we're on a five-year journey from

Genesis to revelation stopping today for our first study in the book of

Ecclesiasties. Now as we begin Dr. Mej recorded a few thoughts that help us to transition from the inspirational book of

Philippians to the difficult realities of life discussed in the Book of Ecclesiasties.

We'll listen and then we'll come back together to pray before diving into God's word.

The Bible Bless, friends, is going down a different pathway today and we invite you aboard.

We have left the new testament and that wonderful epistle to the Philippians.

Now we have returned to the Old Testament and we are going to begin today in the book of Ecclesiasties and I'm very

anxious for you to have this first message we're going to give on this book because this is different from every book of the Bible

and it has a very special message for man in this day and it's like coming out of the clouds from Philippians and coming down to the earth

with a great bump when we come to Ecclesiasties. This is the book of man under the sun who has

found that life is vanity of vanities and as we're going to see that means emptiness and how many people today

who have all of the things of this life,

yet they are bored to tears,

they do not have contentment,

and they are running to and fro like little Aunts.

Only Aunts are busy doing something.

These people are not doing anything.

I think that we might be able to tie these two books together with a very wonderful poem

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