What has happened to the world since God proudly looked over “everything that He had made, and declared indeed it was very good?”
Clearly something has changed from “very good to emptiness”! That is the author of Ecclesiastes pursuit as he journals for us his quest to find the answer to the meaning of life. Reading through these 12 chapters is to realize that he did not write this as fiction, nor did he write it as time went on. Instead it was his life experience that he wrote about at the end of his life.
The benefit of the study of this book is that we don’t have to repeat the same mistakes as the author has and yet we too can come to the same conclusion (12:13), “Fear God and obey his commands, for this is the duty of every person.”