UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 21 OF 39
Ecclesiastes
Kohelet — “The Preacher”
POETRY
- Author / Era
- Solomon (traditional) · approx. 940 BC, in his later years
- Setting
- A wise king at the end of his life looking back over everything he has tried.
- Key Figures
- The Preacher, the LORD
- Watch For
- The word hevel (vapor, breath, mist) — not “meaningless” but “unable to be grasped.”
- Connects To
- Romans 8:20 · James 4:14 · Matthew 6:19–21
Key Verse
“Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”— Ecclesiastes 12:13
Points to Christ: The King Above the Sun
The One greater than Solomon, in whom what is hevel becomes weighty, eternal, and rooted.
For the Fire Pit
Everything under the sun runs out. The book is daring you to look above the sun.
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