Ecclesiastes Commentary (The Bible Believer's Commentary Series) by Ruckman Dr. Peter S

Author:Ruckman, Dr. Peter S. [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

4. The problem of fatal diseases.

5. The problem of war.

6. The problem of death.

7. The problem of sin.

Man’s six-millennium search for “truth” and “truths,” in total disregard for John 14:4–8 and John 17:17, enabled him to solve NOTHING that has plagued him since he began. He is no closer, today, to solving ONE of those problems than he was in A.D. 1000, 1000 B.C., 2000 B.C., or 3000 B.C.

The man who traveled farthest to find out what was “far off” was Parke Thompson of Akron, Ohio, who visited 309 countries, territories, and geographical areas, which included 299 recognized by the United Nations. In 1989, he went to the South Pole. Thompson went on thirty seven trips in thirty two years. (My own travels [since I was twenty four years old] have averaged 40,000 miles a year. That would be about 1,880,000 miles, or about seventy eight times around the earth, at the equator.)

Verse 25 is full circle from Ecclesiastes 2:1–3. When Solomon understood to “know...the reason of things,” he really short circuited his “boom box.” Man’s attempts to use his “reason” to solve even the problems of his own origin come to a perfect blank. “Reason” cannot account for the differences in races (so it pretends they are equal); it cannot account for the differences between the sexes (one celled animals have no sex); it cannot keep men from killing each other at a lively pace (fifty-four wars between 1912 and 1992); and it cannot stop 2,000 abortions a day, international terrorism, cannibalism, and Satan worship. You find the reason for some things on this earth, but when you increase knowledge (1:18) and observe the oppressors and the oppressed (4:1), plus “time and chance” (9:11), you will quickly come to the conclusion that Heaven is the place for understanding and earth is the place for trust. (We will “understand it better, bye and bye!”)

“And I find more bitter than death the woman” (vs. 26). Death can be honorable and, sometimes, even comfortable. The Japanese say “Death with honor is better than life without honor.” But to be taken, or taken in, by a scheming, conniving, grasping, greedy female is bitter. The young man in Proverbs was trapped (Prov. 7). Samson was trapped. Solomon, himself, was trapped, for “his wives turned away his heart” (1 Kings 11:3) and caused him to lose his kingdom, albeit posthumously.

“The sinner shall be taken by her.” I have been “taken” in my day, but good. All I could say is what Adonibezek said in Judges 1: “As I have done, so God hath requited me.” Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liz Taylor both took five or six males to the cleaners. A man said, “Sure, the girl I married could sew, clean, and cook. She sowed her wild oats, cleaned me out, and cooked my goose!”

John Dillinger’s “girl friend” was Anna Sage; she was deeply interested in collecting $40,000 for Johnny, “dead or alive.” She told the G.I. men, “When we come out of the theatre I will be wearing a red dress.

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