Ecclesiastes: Under the Sun, part 6 – He has made everything beautiful in it’s time

Making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland

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Ecclesiastes: Under the Sun, part 6 – He has made everything beautiful in it’s time

In the book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon applies his heart ‘to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven’. As he does so, he discovers fallen man amidst a sin-ruined creation.

In the sixth part of a new series, Phill Marsh looks at possibly the most well-known passage in the Old Testament. What are we to make of Solomon’s poem and how are we to understand the seemingly controversial statement that God ‘has made everything beautiful in it’s time’?