Reading 'Verbatim', the Books of the Old Testament - 'Ecclesiastes Chapters 8:1-9:18 '; Bi-Monthly, Post 6-AM, June 15, 2020

My friends,

Welcome back as we are continuing from June 1, 3, 5, 2020.  Now, June 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 2020 let's continue and conclude our 'chapter sections' of posts from the 'Working' OUTLINE for 'Ecclesiastes'. For the purpose for you to review, the dates of each of the sections are posted for you. audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html

Remember, we will not be doing a 'chapter-by-chapter' post series, but, we will be posting 'sections' even over-lapping in chapters, to keep the 'thoughts' together, as we go through our posts for verbatim reading.

​A. Life without God is Meaningless (Ecclesiastes 1:1- 2:26) audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
I. Problem stated: “All is vanity,” Chapter 1:1-3 - June 1, 2020
II. Experiment made, Chapters 1:4—12:12 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html  
Seeking satisfaction in the following:
1. Science (the laws of nature), Chapter 1:4-11- June 1, 2020audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
2. Wisdom and philosophy, Chapter 1:12-18-June 1, 2020
3. Pleasure, Chapter 2:1-11 -June 3, 2020audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
4. Materialism (living for the “now”), Chapter 2:12-26 June 3, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html

B. Life without God is Unfair (Ecclesiastes 3:1-5:1-8) audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
5. Fatalism, Chapter 3:1-15 - June 5, 2020
6. Egoism, Chapters 3:16—4:16 - June 5, 2020
7. Religion, Chapter 5:1-8 -June 5, 2020
C. Life without God is Unfulfilling (Ecclesiastes 5:9-9:18), and, audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
D. Life with God Only Makes Sense (Ecclesiastes 9:1-12:14); audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
8. Wealth, Chapters 5:9—6:12, Those who seek riches find vanity 5:8-6:12 - June 9, 2020
Missing Out on a Good Life  (Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ) - June 9, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html

9. Morality (the “good life”), Chapters 7:1—12:12 [June 11-June 19, 2020]audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
a. Lacking the Discernment Needed  (Ecclesiastes 7:1-29)- June 11, 2020
​b. Coping with a World of Futility (Ecclesiastes 8:1-9:18) - June 15, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
c. Wisdom and folly 10:1-10:20 - June 17, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
d. Do not be lazy, but diligence also is vanity 11:1-8 - June 19, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
e. Remember your Creator while you live so as to avoid a vain life 11:9-12:7 - June 19, 2020
f. Without Him, all is vanity 12:8 - June 19, 2020audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
10. The final conclusion: The duty and profit of man is to fear God and keep His commandments. 12:9-14
June 19, 2020audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
III. Result of experiment, Chapter 12:13, 14audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
All things under the sun are vanity. June 19, 2020 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 

Ecclesiastes Chapter 8:1 - 9:18 audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
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Ecclesiastes Chapter 8audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html 
Commendations of wisdom. (1-5) To prepare for sudden evils and death. (6-8) It shall be well with the righteous, and ill with the wicked. (9-13) Mysteries of Providence. (14-17)

1 'Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.'

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6 'Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.'

9 'All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.'

​14 'There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.'

​Thank you, my friends for returning this afternoon for the Chapter 9 of this section of our outline in Ecclesiastes. Amen.