The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Time” it comes from the Hebrew Word “eth” which means “time, season.”
The Preacher offers a beautiful meditation on time’s rhythms, and eternity set within the human heart. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Ecclesiastes 3.
The Preacher declares, “To every thing there is a season, and a “time,” “eth” in Hebrew, “to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted,” continuing this poetic pattern through killing and healing, breaking down and building up, weeping and laughing, mourning and dancing.
The Preacher continues this rhythmic list, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away, a time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak, a time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace, asking what profit has the worker in that in which he labors.
The Preacher describes how God has made everything beautiful in His time, also having set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end, concluding there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice, and to do good in his life, and that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, since it is the gift of God, declaring that whatever God does, it shall be forever, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it, God doing it that men should fear before Him, closing with the observation that God requires that which is past, appointing a time for every purpose and for every work.
This chapter’s famous poetic list, a time for everything under heaven, offers genuine comfort by acknowledging that life legitimately contains seasons of opposite experiences, both joy and sorrow having their proper, appropriate place rather than one being somehow more valid than the other. Its observation that God has set eternity in the human heart, yet without full understanding of His complete work, captures the genuine tension between our innate sense of something beyond and our limited capacity to fully grasp it.
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