Habakkuk - Tuesday Reading
Themes in the Minor Prophets - Week Eight
Scripture Text: Ecclesiastes 8:14 - 9:6; 1 Corinthians 15:32
Series: Bible Reading Challenge - Fall 2022
Ecclesiastes 8:14 - 9:6
14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. 15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth —people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
?1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them. 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.
3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.
6 Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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A 1997 graduate of the American Lutheran Theological Seminary, Peter is Lead Pastor of One Hope Church in Gig Harbor, WA. An evangelist at heart with a passion for employing creative means for communicating the gospel to the next generation, Peter founded Rebel Planet Creations in 2003, a company which creates evangelistic video games (www.TheRebelPlanet.com). Peter is a certified pastor with both Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (www.lcmc.net) and the Alliance of Renewal Churches (www.allianceofrenewalchurches.org).
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