Ecclesiastes 5
 Review: Chapter 1: Vanity is empty and all things that are empty remain empty. Chapter 2: The "fool walketh in darkness" which leads to a "vexation of spirit" and asks shall we be "a wise man or a fool?" Shall a "soul enjoy good in his labour" or another "man that hath not laboured therein"? By to Chapter 3: Addressing "wickedness was there; and ... iniquity" we see it repeated that everyman's labor belongs to himself by the endowment of God. The question is asked what is the spirit that leads a man upward, and the spirit that goeth downwardwhich brings man down to dust. The warning in Chapter 4 is that if a man cares only for himself or chooses to oppress others" he may become a "fool who foldeth his hands together, and ends up where he eateth his own flesh. Chapter 5: Beginning with the sacrifice of fools,careful with your foot and the "rash... mouth" and you should "not vow" so that you can enjoy your labour as God intended. |
| Comments |
| What does sacrifice of fools mean? |
| According to some it was "the sacrifice of fools-religious ritual or worship" that was "cold, formal, boring, worship by people who didn't care." that is true if we properly define the word worship and care. |
| Worship has always been bowing to the will of a master. The will of the master and Creator is to love your neighbor and care about them and their life as you do your own. |
| The kind of Care that the Bible teaches we can see in Altars of Clay and stone which were systems of social welfare created by Abraham and Moses to provide a social safety net by the practice of Pure Religion through faith, hope, and charity. They were not creating mindless religious rituals to promote bond of delf righteousness and vanity. It was essential that these systems were funded by freewill offerings which rooted in voluntary choice[1] and love. The people who are of the world are often in conflict with that early Christian system because they have chosen the sacrifice of fools which we see in Ecclesiastes 5. Those systems include covetous practices[2] and are run by the men who call themselves benefactors and the Fathers of the earth who exercise authority through the welfare State and its systems of legal charity that are funded by force, fear, and result in forms of fealty through debt. |
| Ecclesiastes 5 warns against foolish sacrifices of the temple which began with Saul. Everyone needs to understand without fervent charity at the altars of of God life will degenerate. The vision of Moses in Exodus was not mindlessly rituals but the song of Moses which is in harmony with the Song of the Lamb. |
| V1 "Keep thy foot" - attend to the way I go... "house of God" - bayith (BeitYodTav) elohim ... "be more ready to hear" - qarab (קָרַב) draw near lišmōa (לִשְׁמֹ֔עַ) to hearken, obey... "than to give the sacrifice of fools(הַכְּסִילִ֖ים hakkəsîlîm)[3] for they consider not that they do evil."[4] |
| V2 "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God" This is about taking oaths before "ruling judges". This is the same as those who consent to have one purse and the warning to refrain your foot from that path[5] because the net is not there in vain. |
| V3 A dream comes because "multitude of business" which is that the people have become accustomed to covetous practices so that "they consider not that they do evil". |
| V4 If "thou vowest... pay that which thou hast vowed." Jesus explained to the people in Matthew 22:17-21, Mark 12:14-17, and Luke 20:22-26. |
| V5 But it would be better if you did not vow. See Swear not. |
| V7 Are the multitude of dreams [divers] vanities? Are they Guru theories void of understanding? |
| V8 Is there "oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice" today. This is because you have vowed to give the sacrifice of fools to get benefits at the expense of your neighbor in covetous practices and dainties at hand of rulers[6] which is idolatry.[7] |
| V9-13 Riches are not the "sore evil" but "riches kept for the owners" is the swamp of a selfish heart. |
| When we see that the Mark of the Beast is the number of those who vow to give the sacrifice of fools going back into the bondage of Egypt and the mire. |
| When the rich choose the "oppression of the poor, and to be violent perverting of judgment and justice" you should know that "the wrath of her fornication" of "the merchants of the earth... shall weep and mourn over her... for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."[8] |
| The rich who are for themselves "labor for the wind" and "eat in darkness" |
| V18 All a man's labor should be his but if he desires life more abundant than riches he must lay down one for the other. |
| Questions |
| Does man own all his labor? |
| Have you vowed to make the sacrifice of fools? |
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Sacrifice of fools:
1 ¶ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
Vowest a vow
4 ¶ When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
9 ¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Riches kept
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Enjoy all his labor
18 ¶ Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
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- ↑ "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ Jesus against covetousness
- Mark 7:9 "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." See Corban.
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Luke 12:15 "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
- Luke 16:14 "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- Matthew 19:17 "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."
- John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
- John 14:21 "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
- John 15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love."
- ↑ 03684 ^ליסכ^ kᵉciyl \@kes-eel’\@ from 03688; n m; {See TWOT on 1011 @@ "1011c"} AV-fool 61, foolish 9; 70
- 1) fool, stupid fellow, dullard, simpleton, arrogant one
- ↑ 07451 ^ער^ ra‘ ReishAyin \@rah\@ or fem. ^הער^ ra‘ah from 07489 the verb 07490 (Aramic)ReishAyinAyin evil (to crush); AV-evil 442, wickedness 59, wicked 25, mischief 21, hurt 20, bad 13, trouble 10, sore 9, affliction 6, ill 5, adversity 4, favoured 3, harm 3, naught 3, noisome 2, grievous 2, sad 2, misc 34; 663
- adj
- 1) bad, evil
- 1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
- 1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
- 1c) evil, displeasing
- 1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc)
- 1e) bad (of value)
- 1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
- 1g) sad, unhappy
- 1h) evil (hurtful)
- 1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
- 1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
- 1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
- 1j2) deeds, actions
- n m
- 2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
- 2a) evil, distress, adversity
- 2b) evil, injury, wrong
- 2c) evil (ethical)
- n f
- 3) evil, misery, distress, injury
- 3a) evil, misery, distress
- 3b) evil, injury, wrong
- 3c) evil (ethical)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
- ↑ Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Revelation 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.