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Re: Lesson Study #4 - Of Being and TIME
[Re: Daryl]
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01/21/07 07:22 PM
01/21/07 07:22 PM
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The Memory Text says: "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work" (Ecclesiastes 3:17 NKJV).
Does the Memory Text indicate that Solomon is finally coming back to his senses in bringing God back into the equation?
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Re: Lesson Study #4 - Of Being and TIME
[Re: Daryl]
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01/21/07 07:37 PM
01/21/07 07:37 PM
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Sunday's section says that God is the God of time. In numerous places the Bible talks about the role of time in God's plans. Jesus appeared in Galilee declaring that "the time is fulfilled" (Mark 1:15). Paul, in reference to the first coming of Jesus, wrote that "when the fulness of the time was come, god sent forth his Son" (Gal. 4:4); in reference to the Second Coming, he wrote: "until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing, which He will manifest in His own time" (1 Tim. 6:14, 15, NKJV). An angel appeared to John and said to him, " 'Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand' " (Rev. 22:10, NKJV). We can see that God works through time in order to bring about His will.
It was God who set time in motion from the very first time He began the process of creation from the creation of His own dwelling place, from the creation of the angels, from the creation of other inhabited worlds, to the creation of this inhabited world.
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Re: Lesson Study #4 - Of Being and TIME
[Re: Daryl]
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01/24/07 06:01 PM
01/24/07 06:01 PM
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Tuesday's section is based on the following verse: Ecc. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
What do you think Solomon meant by the phrase that God has "put eternity" in the hearts of human beings?
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Re: Lesson Study #4 - Of Being and TIME
[Re: Daryl]
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01/25/07 07:01 PM
01/25/07 07:01 PM
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Wednesday's section brings the element of God and judgment into the picture. Ecc. 3:16 And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
What is Solomon saying in verse 16?
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Re: Lesson Study #4 - Of Being and TIME
[Re: Daryl]
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01/27/07 01:40 AM
01/27/07 01:40 AM
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There doesn't seem to be much discussion in this week's study. Anyway, Thursday's section moves on to comparing men to beasts when it comes to death. Both die. Solomon is, again, looking at the meaninglessness of life lived apart from God, a life lived only for the immediate pleasures of this world. It has to be meaningless because when it's all done, humans and beasts "all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again" (vs. 20). As we saw in Tuesday's lesson, that's a conclusion most humans find unsettling, one that makes all that comes before death not only hebel but even worse. One atheist author wrote about the "absurdity" of life: It taunts us with the hope and promise of meaning, and yet in the end we all end up in the same meaningless place as the beasts.
Yes, both die, but there is a difference. What is that difference?
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