October 29, 2008

Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 - A Time for Everything (Part Three)

Filed under: Chasing Time — Flatland Research Team @ 4:00 am

Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 - A Time for Everything (Part Three)
Today’s passage is Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.  Please join us in study.

The Teacher has seen wickedness in the places of judgment and justice.  The Teacher was king in Jerusalem (1:1,12).  The maintenance of justice and judgment were his responsibility as king.

The American cultural attitude towards injustice, or wickedness in the places of judgment and justice, at least to the generation brought up on Superman, (‘Truth, Justice and the American way…’) is that it needs to be struck down and struck down wherever it is seen.

God too is about justice (See Jeremiah 7:1-11 as an example), but it is always within His context not ours.

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