Christians explain this verse Ecclesiastes 3: 11?

Question

Question Where does the universe end and when did time begin? There is a God

Ecclesiastes 3: 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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Answer 1

What has God made “pretty in its time”?

Some of the things that Jehovah God has made “pretty,” or appropriate and good, at the proper time are the creation of Adam and Eve, the rainbow covenant, the covenant with Abraham, the Davidic covenant, the coming of the Messiah, and the enthronement of Jesus Christ as King of God’s Kingdom.



The thought of our own death is always distasteful and it always will be. Why is that?



It is because God has infused us with the keen desire to live forever. “He has also put eternity in their hearts,” says Ecclesiastes 3:11



. The inevitability of death, therefore, has created an internal conflict in humans, a persisting disharmony. To reconcile this internal conflict and to satisfy the natural yearning to live on, humans have fabricated all sorts of beliefs, from the doctrine of the immortality of the soul to the belief in reincarnation.



eternal life will not bring us to the end of learning about God. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)



Think, then, of the prospect before us. After having lived for hundreds, thousands, millions, even billions of years, we will know far more about Jehovah God than we do now.



But we will still feel that there are countless wonderful things to be learned. We will be eager to learn more, for we will always have reason to feel as did the psalmist, who sang: “The drawing near to God is good for me.”



Have you ever noted that living forever is a natural human desire?



Why, is this desire for everlasting life so embedded in our thinking? Is it because “God has put eternity into man’s mind”? (Ecclesiastes 3:11,



This is a matter for serious reflection! Just think: Why would we have the inherent desire to live eternally forever if it was not our Creator’s purpose that this desire be satisfied?



And would it be loving for him to create us with the desire for everlasting life and then frustrate us by never allowing us to realize that desire?



if old age and death were natural and part of some master plan, wouldn’t we welcome them? But we don’t. Why not? The answer is found in the way we were made. The Bible says: “God has even put eternity into our minds.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11

Answer 2

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ASV

American Standard Version

He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 BBE

Bible in Basic English

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 CEB

Common English Bible

God has made everything fitting in its time, but has also placed eternity in their hearts, without enabling them to discover what God has done from beginning to end.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 CJB

Complete Jewish Bible

He has made everything suited to its time; also, he has given human beings an awareness of eternity; but in such a way that they can't fully comprehend, from beginning to end, the things God does.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 RHE

Douay-Rheims

He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV

English Standard Version

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.



Ecclesiastes 3:11 GW

GOD'S WORD Translation

It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people's minds. Yet, mortals still can't grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end [of time].



Ecclesiastes 3:11 GNT

Good News Translation

He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.



More here:



http://www.biblestudytools.com/ecclesiastes/3-11-compare.html

Answer 3

Kohelet (the author of Ecclesiastes) has only one question in mind for his book, "What do we gain for all our hard work under the sun?" He has just finished his poem on a time for every purposed under heaven and now in this section he connects it to the theme question of his book by saying,



"So how can we gain anything from our toil if the seasons of life keep us constantly working. God has confined our busy lives within the framework of time but has also planted eternity in our hearts. This makes it impossible to understand what God is doing from the beginning to the end."



He immediately goes on to apply this truth to his theme question.



"I clearly see there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves for as long as we live. Each of us has been given the opportunity to eat and drink and find satisfaction in our work. That is God’s plan for us, and we cannot add to or subtract from his design. It fits us perfectly, for it achieves God’s purpose and causes us to honor him. That’s the way it was in the beginning, and it is the same today. Our future is rooted in the distant past, for God’s intent for us is consistent."



Kohelet is teaching us that when God introduced death into the world (for you are dust and to dust you shall return) it obscured our view of eternity but it still exists in our hearts. For now we are stuck in a twisted world (thorn and thistles) that keeps us busy moving from season to season but Kohelet feels eternity in his heart as he catches a glimpse of something beyond life on this earth.



Hope that helps. Ecclesiastes is my favourite book and I have been translating and working with it for 30 years.

Answer 4

Time is eternity from "In the beginning..." to the 'appointed time of the end'.



This is the definition of eternity, see also Isa57:15[the ONE place in the KJV O.T. where 'eternity' is used, the NKJV places 'eternity' in Ecc3;11 as the 2nd[Gen41:32] place in all the O.T., a proof to be revealed in our time]



Everlasting is timelessness



Everlasting - eternity - everlasting



'was - is - is to come'

Answer 5

This is a rhetorical statement. In other words, God wants man to trust in Him, and not try to figure out God and His plan, because God knows that man will try to outwit Him.

Answer 6

Bible says God created all diseases and disasters and everything evil...



Source(s):



Isaiah 45-7

I form the light and create darkness,

I bring prosperity and create disaster;

I, the Lord, do all these things.

Answer 7

Thank you.