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| Ecclesiastes Introduction and Outline |
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Lesson # Ecclesiastes Introduction, Outline Study Material - Ecclesiastes, book introduction and outline You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Ecclesiastes Introduction This book written by Solomon, one of the wisest men in history, yet even being wise in scripture, Solomon had his weaknesses and downfalls. This book is a book of human viewpoint. A book of a man 'under the sun', of one under creation and a part of the beings in creation. Rejecting Bible doctrine and the spiritual side of life, one is left to his own devices, his own observations and sometimes they are accurate with respect to their limitations in this world, but in the greater scheme of things, human viewpoint falls far short of the truth.. Solomon addresses himself as a teacher, 'koheleth', a teacher rendering the experiences of his own life, reasoning about life, and drawing conclusions from those life experiences. The conclusion is that everything in life results eventually in nothing, vanity. And more than that, vanity of vanities. The repetition of the word gives us a meaning of nothing from nothing, nothing out of nothing. If you begin with nothing and add nothing to it, then you will end up with nothing. Somewhere in our early life we learn basic math, and zero plus zero is one of the easiest additions for us to memorize. Unfortunately in life we forget that concept which we learned at such an early age. God gave us the formula for following our sin nature, of following our own devices. We see it repeated in the psalms and the proverbs, but we never seem to get the principle. Our heads are in the fog, but we never see the fog. Solomon tried out everything imaginable. He had women, hobbies, writings, engineering, construction. You name it, he had it. He was the wealthiest person in history. Today the wealthy people have stocks and bonds whose values can change over night on a rumor. Solomon had real estate, gold bullion (tons of it), emeralds and precious stones beyond our imagination just to list a few of his assets. No one today has that kind of wealth. No one in history has ever had that kind of wealth. And there is a reason for it. That kind of wealth came from Bible doctrine, not from the world. We have access to that wealth and to more. We have access to success, prosperity, peace, stability, security, happiness just to name a few. But they all come from Bible doctrine. This book takes a look at the world and the viewpoint of a man who got away from Bible doctrine to try to match the blessings of doctrine by sheer human effort, and he failed on every try. The world makes you put out your all, and guarantees you nothing. In fact you always end up with nothing when you finally meet your death face to face. The Bible asks nothing from you except your attention, and gives you everything. So the contrast between this book and the next 'Song of Solomon', which is the book of divine viewpoint. Ecclesiastes Outline I. Introduction. Human viewpoint overrates itself. 1:1-3. A. The title. 1:1. B. The theme. 1:2,3. II. The theme demonstrated (I). 1:4-2:26. A. By human life in general. 1:4-11. B. By knowledge. 1:12-18. C. By pleasure. 2:1-11, D. By the fate of all men. 2:12-17. E. By human toil. 23:18-23, F. Conclusion III. The theme demonstrated (II). 3:1-4:16. A. By the laws of God. 3:1-15. B. By the lack of immortality. 3:16-22. C. By evil oppression. 4:1-3. D. By work. 4:4-6. E. By miserly accumulation of wealth. 4:7-12, F. By the transient nature of popularity. 4:13-16. IV. Words of advice (A). 5:1-7. V. The theme demonstrated (III). 5:8-6:12. A. By wealth that can be enjoyed 5:8-20, B. By wealth that cannot be enjoyed. 6:1-9. C. By the fix of fate. 6:10-12. VI. Words of advice (B). 7:1-8:9. A. Honor is better than luxury. 7:1. B. Sobriety is better than levity. 7:2-7. C. Cautiousness is better than rashness. 7:8-10, D. Wisdom with wealth is better than wisdom alone. 7:11,12. E. Resignation is better than indignation. 7:13,14 F. Moderation is better than intemperance. 7:15-22, G. Men are better than women?? 7:23-29. H. To compromise is sometimes better than to be right. 8:1-9. VII. The theme demonstrated (IV). 8:10-9:16. A. By the incongruity of life. 8:10-14. B. Conclusion VIII. Words of advice (C). 9:17-13:8. A. Some lessons on wisdom and folly. 9:17-10:15. B. Some lessons on the rule of kings. 10:16-20. C. Some lessons on over cautiousness, 11:1-8. D. Some lessons on enjoying life. 11:9-12:8. IX. Epilogue. 12:9-14. A. The aim of the preacher. 12:9,10, B. A commendation of his teachings. 12:11,12, C. The conclusion of the matter. 12:13,14. 
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