Ecclesiastes is such a gem. I don't hear it preached often, if ever, but it fits the lived experience so well. I'm reminded how much better and more joyful our lives would be if we were taught and lived from the Bible's wisdom from youth. Great editing in this video and thank you for breaking down the book. I look forward to meeting you one day, Brother Landon
Man, I'm just now finding this video but it's fantastic and it shows how sad and down Solomon was at the end of his life. From what I can only imagine was all of his sin catching up to him.
This book brings me so much comfort from time to time. Go a season of life not reading it. Then pick it up and bam so much understanding to relate to. Life just makes more sense.
Oh, Pastor Landon, purpose, purpose, thank you for this entertaining, edifying overview of this book about emptiness without the Lord Jesus, who came that we might have life to the full, truly, purposeful.
Wow this is like the a story of what lead me to turn my long nose back to the face of God. The cyclical nature of which my own mind, when life fills of vanity, truly there is the hope of God and nothing else. Praise God and the aliveness of His word endlessly
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Thank you for this message, I read through the book and I was - why is Solomon so hopeless and depressed? I honestly missed the Jesus moment. Am glad you are here to assist ❤
Actually the book says it is our job to enjoy the fruits of our toils and to celebrate the Lord. Far too often people get wrapped up in this obeying thing when we should primarily concern ourselves with this joyous thing we call life.
I just finished reading Ecclesiastes in my “Read Through the Bible” plan on YouVersion and I sat there wondering, why was this so negative? Why does he keep saying everything is “meaningless”? (The NIV on that app translates vanity/emptiness as meaningless.) It sounded like the writings of a very depressed man to me lol. But this helped me a lot! Thank you so much! It’s taken me over a year so far on this plan (I’m 100 days away from finishing the Bible) because I stop to make sure I understand the things that confuse me. Thanks for your help! :)
New Vocab Word! juxtaposition [ juhk-stuh-puh-zish-uhn ] an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. ❤️✝️🕊️ God is good.
I've read the book of the Preacher literally dozens of times, and even written it down word by word on paper to completely imprint it on my mind, and I'm not satisfied by this 7 minute "overview". I can only urge anyone that might see this to instead open up your bible and read the book of Ecclesiastes word by word, slowly. I warn you though, because increased knowledge really increases sorrow. The more vanity is made clear about the world and what we do in it, the heavier the heart will become. Yet it's a victory to be found in this, because if you follow the logic of this book of wisdom to the end, you won't have anything else to gain then to seek Jesus and the things of God, and this will make you blessed.
At time stamp 6:32 you point out the word shepherd is used here and 2 other times in the OT and it's talking about the David to come. So WOW that is neat, right. I went to Blue Letter Bible and looked up the word and found its Strong's concordance #H7462 is used way more than 2 times in the OT. Can you explain the difference from what you claim and what the concordance says?
You do Ecc justice. It's one of my favorite books, because it is a slap in the face to the name it and claim it non-sense. Suffering is a reality of life and whatever pleasures we have come and go with the pains, our hope is in God. The best thing about Ecc is pointing out WHAT IS NOT Eternally, valuable. Almost everything, ALMOST EVERYTHING in this life is NOT eternally valuable.
Please reply I have a question. Is drinking wine wrong or not? Is it drunkenness that's forbidden or drinking that is forbidden it really confuses me because so many Spiritual people say Alcohol is bad it kills your brain cells separate you from your consciousness etc. Please let me know what the truth is?
Jesus drank and the Pharisees accused him of being a drunk. The OT shares some of the health benefits of drinking as does Paul. That being said - drunkenness is clearly a sin and we are not meant to be under any power other than the power of the Holy Spirit. That's my take.
'Vanity' is an unfortunate English translation, at least in our times. (The original Hebrew word is Hevel, meaning vapour, or indicating something with appearance but no substance.) 'Vanity' used to firstly indicate something of no use, or profitless: e.g., "His efforts were in vain". But anyone who doesn't read the classics (most of us, today), only understands Vanity to mean egocentrism or narcissism. So it's better to translate Hevel as 'Useless', or 'Fruitless'.
That doing good and it will be returned to you is not everyones experience. Its all pointless. Even the push to save souls, why bother if everything the father wants is already written.
Nashvillain Modern Scholars debate the authors of everything! Lol. Listening to or reading a person talk about authorship who doesn’t believe the book is not a great idea.
Oh, I see. So, one must either believe that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes or he is a non-believer. I would absolutely love to hear the irrefutable evidence that you have for Solomon being the author of Ecclesiastes because I'm simply looking for the truth. I've heard the Ecclesiastes authorship debate in a number of places. Most recently, I saw something from the folks at The Bible Project about this book. Here's the link for you and for all of your subscribers: thebibleproject.com/explore/ecclesiastes/
Did you just compare him with Konyay? Man. You either a shill or dont get it. Cant finish this…get some musik taste. Despite it being fully demonic or not. Yikes. Im like….,,see ya.
KiNG Solomon I am Black ⚫️ Song 🎶 of Solomon 1:5 I Am BLACK ⚫️ MAKE SURE you Mention he is Black from the Tribe of JUDAH/AFRICAN AMERICAN Scipio AFRICANUS=AFRICA Amerigo vespucii= AMERICA 🇺🇸 Kemet the Black ⚫️ LAND Not AFRICA
Not exactly - its about finding God’s purpose amidst vapidness - “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecclesiastes 12:13
Pastor Landon I respect your viewpoint but as I see it, duty and purpose are different. From what I read Ecclesiastes is about purposelessness and it’s a beautiful thing that scripture makes account of it. ‘Everything is meaningless’ because it is, it absolutely is. It runs away, it seriously sadly runs away. It’s an unflinching study of entropy. It bothers me when people try to act like it’s something else cos that realness is what draws me to it and to be honest it’s what has kept me in the faith when I’ve been at my lowest, it’s the comfort of knowing you’re not alone. That others have been through it, and even god understands it. I take issue with anyone who would try to spin Ecclesiastes away from what it is, that would try to divert attention from the emptiness to make some trite point to turn it into some kind of self help pamphlet, we’ve got enough of those voices in the world... give me some real food.
As someone who has never read straight through the bible, I deeply appreciate the effort you've made to outline the old testament story. Thank you!
Thanks Hector! Going to post the Major Prophets soon - I hope they bless your heart.
Ecclesiastes is a mood... For life
My favorite book of the bible!
Love it.
I appreciate these so much Landon, you're doing God's work.
I appreciate the encouragement. Prayers appreciated as we complete the rest of these.
Ecclesiastes is such a gem. I don't hear it preached often, if ever, but it fits the lived experience so well. I'm reminded how much better and more joyful our lives would be if we were taught and lived from the Bible's wisdom from youth. Great editing in this video and thank you for breaking down the book. I look forward to meeting you one day, Brother Landon
Thank you for this! God bless you, pastor Landon!
God bless u too
Maybe it’s weird to say, but I don’t find the book all that depressing. It just seems very honest.
love it
Same
Agreed!
Hallelujah! Glory to God! Love your life you create!
I love seeing Jesus appear in the old testament!!
yes ! 🔥🔨🌵
Man, I'm just now finding this video but it's fantastic and it shows how sad and down Solomon was at the end of his life. From what I can only imagine was all of his sin catching up to him.
Thank u Pastor I have been depressed after reading this book but after this explanation am relieved.
This book brings me so much comfort from time to time. Go a season of life not reading it. Then pick it up and bam so much understanding to relate to. Life just makes more sense.
We need more!
love it! just posted Song of Solomon and Isaiah pts 1 and 2 coming in the next few weeks as well as Jeremiah. Just writing Haggai this morning.
Oh, Pastor Landon, purpose, purpose, thank you for this entertaining, edifying overview of this book about emptiness without the Lord Jesus, who came that we might have life to the full, truly, purposeful.
Great explanation of some great wisdom wish this was preached in the suffering Church theses days
Hallelujah 🙌 God bless you 😇 Keep sharing 🙏 Pastor Landon.
Thanks 🔥🔨🌵
Wow this is like the a story of what lead me to turn my long nose back to the face of God. The cyclical nature of which my own mind, when life fills of vanity, truly there is the hope of God and nothing else. Praise God and the aliveness of His word endlessly
Thank you for these shorts they help me understand so much what God is revealing in my life.
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This pastor is like the mclovin in the Spirit. God bless you
haha 🌵
you are fantastic. just my speed sir
Wow what a beautiful video! Thank you. The editing was so funny. David from the future had me cracking up. Praise the Lord
Thanks for watching
Thank you Pastor Landon
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This was very helpful thank you
Thanks for watching 🔥🔨🌵
My kids love you, you make everything fun for kids to even engage in it and understand. They have memorized “God created, man fail, etc” haha
Thanks !
.preciate you uploading this this is my favorite book !
Very helpful summary, thank you.
AWSOME!...simply...awsome! Thank you! Looking forward to more of your teachings.
Amaziinng. Thank you for this
Very well explained
Thank u !
Thank you for this message, I read through the book and I was - why is Solomon so hopeless and depressed? I honestly missed the Jesus moment. Am glad you are here to assist ❤
Thanks for watching
A very succinct and helpful explanation. Wow!!
God Bless!
thank u !!
Good overview! Thank you!
Your final wrap-up needs to include that the Holy Spirit is here to be our teacher now that Jesus is gone from the earth.
Thanks man! It was really helpful for my graduation exams 👍
Glad to hear it
Its all about seasons and understanding the seasons in life and understanding the seasons of God
amen
i really like your interpretation of the book of Ecclesiastes.
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That was fab - thanks!
this is really good!
Thanks for watching, Greg
Actually the book says it is our job to enjoy the fruits of our toils and to celebrate the Lord. Far too often people get wrapped up in this obeying thing when we should primarily concern ourselves with this joyous thing we call life.
Agree that we need to learn to enjoy the life God has blessed us with.
Brilliant
I just finished reading Ecclesiastes in my “Read Through the Bible” plan on YouVersion and I sat there wondering, why was this so negative? Why does he keep saying everything is “meaningless”? (The NIV on that app translates vanity/emptiness as meaningless.) It sounded like the writings of a very depressed man to me lol. But this helped me a lot! Thank you so much! It’s taken me over a year so far on this plan (I’m 100 days away from finishing the Bible) because I stop to make sure I understand the things that confuse me. Thanks for your help! :)
Good for you - keep going !! :)
Pastor Landon Will do! Thank you! :)
Amen
New Vocab Word!
juxtaposition
[ juhk-stuh-puh-zish-uhn ]
an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
❤️✝️🕊️
God is good.
I've read the book of the Preacher literally dozens of times, and even written it down word by word on paper to completely imprint it on my mind, and I'm not satisfied by this 7 minute "overview". I can only urge anyone that might see this to instead open up your bible and read the book of Ecclesiastes word by word, slowly. I warn you though, because increased knowledge really increases sorrow. The more vanity is made clear about the world and what we do in it, the heavier the heart will become. Yet it's a victory to be found in this, because if you follow the logic of this book of wisdom to the end, you won't have anything else to gain then to seek Jesus and the things of God, and this will make you blessed.
At time stamp 6:32 you point out the word shepherd is used here and 2 other times in the OT and it's talking about the David to come. So WOW that is neat, right. I went to Blue Letter Bible and looked up the word and found its Strong's concordance #H7462 is used way more than 2 times in the OT. Can you explain the difference from what you claim and what the concordance says?
this is the book i struggle with the most
You do Ecc justice. It's one of my favorite books, because it is a slap in the face to the name it and claim it non-sense. Suffering is a reality of life and whatever pleasures we have come and go with the pains, our hope is in God. The best thing about Ecc is pointing out WHAT IS NOT Eternally, valuable. Almost everything, ALMOST EVERYTHING in this life is NOT eternally valuable.
Amen💝
❤️
This part: 12:13 something to think about
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What comes to mind is stigmata
Please reply I have a question. Is drinking wine wrong or not? Is it drunkenness that's forbidden or drinking that is forbidden it really confuses me because so many Spiritual people say Alcohol is bad it kills your brain cells separate you from your consciousness etc. Please let me know what the truth is?
Jesus drank and the Pharisees accused him of being a drunk. The OT shares some of the health benefits of drinking as does Paul. That being said - drunkenness is clearly a sin and we are not meant to be under any power other than the power of the Holy Spirit. That's my take.
'Vanity' is an unfortunate English translation, at least in our times. (The original Hebrew word is Hevel, meaning vapour, or indicating something with appearance but no substance.) 'Vanity' used to firstly indicate something of no use, or profitless: e.g., "His efforts were in vain". But anyone who doesn't read the classics (most of us, today), only understands Vanity to mean egocentrism or narcissism. So it's better to translate Hevel as 'Useless', or 'Fruitless'.
Ya I agree - my preference on word would be empty and emptiness
@@landonbiblestudy We're certainly in the same ball park. :^)
Video keeps freezing! 😩
omg - i blame your internet connection !! 😎⚡️🔥🔨🌵
@@landonbiblestudy I hope you are right because I really want to watch it!
You are wrong about authorship- it was not written by Solomon, it was written hundreds of years after he lived. (as per Dr Bart Ehrman)
well, hippolytus and tertullian disagree :)
That doing good and it will be returned to you is not everyones experience. Its all pointless. Even the push to save souls, why bother if everything the father wants is already written.
Youngboy
Modern scholars debate the author of this text; it's not absolytely CERTAIN that it was Solomon.
I love this book!
Nashvillain Modern Scholars debate the authors of everything! Lol. Listening to or reading a person talk about authorship who doesn’t believe the book is not a great idea.
Oh, I see. So, one must either believe that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes or he is a non-believer.
I would absolutely love to hear the irrefutable evidence that you have for Solomon being the author of Ecclesiastes because I'm simply looking for the truth.
I've heard the Ecclesiastes authorship debate in a number of places. Most recently, I saw something from the folks at The Bible Project about this book. Here's the link for you and for all of your subscribers:
thebibleproject.com/explore/ecclesiastes/
It did say "im a king"
Why is there only a dislike button? I wanted to press the like button but it's not there lol 🤔🧐
There's a thumbs up button though, isn't there??
My phone must have glitched out last time lol now there is a thumbs up idk what happened 🙃🦒🦒🦒♥️
I saw a spongebob meme pastor...
When you say the people forgot about him. Please say we forget about him on a daily basis look at all the medical wonders and people are still asinine
my bible translates it to meaningless and i don’t think that’s an accurate word to use
Solomon wasnt born through adultery and murder.
it was in his immediate family history
Did you just compare him with Konyay? Man. You either a shill or dont get it. Cant finish this…get some musik taste. Despite it being fully demonic or not. Yikes. Im like….,,see ya.
KiNG Solomon
I am Black ⚫️
Song 🎶 of Solomon 1:5
I Am BLACK ⚫️
MAKE SURE you Mention he is Black from the Tribe of JUDAH/AFRICAN AMERICAN
Scipio AFRICANUS=AFRICA
Amerigo vespucii= AMERICA 🇺🇸
Kemet the Black ⚫️ LAND
Not AFRICA
Ecclesiates is about the opposite of purpose.
Not exactly - its about finding God’s purpose amidst vapidness - “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Pastor Landon I respect your viewpoint but as I see it, duty and purpose are different. From what I read Ecclesiastes is about purposelessness and it’s a beautiful thing that scripture makes account of it. ‘Everything is meaningless’ because it is, it absolutely is. It runs away, it seriously sadly runs away. It’s an unflinching study of entropy. It bothers me when people try to act like it’s something else cos that realness is what draws me to it and to be honest it’s what has kept me in the faith when I’ve been at my lowest, it’s the comfort of knowing you’re not alone. That others have been through it, and even god understands it. I take issue with anyone who would try to spin Ecclesiastes away from what it is, that would try to divert attention from the emptiness to make some trite point to turn it into some kind of self help pamphlet, we’ve got enough of those voices in the world... give me some real food.