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NASB | Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. |
Bible Question:
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7 ESV) They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:4-7 ESV) Noah's flood came when man's sins were great in God's eyes and God couldn't tolerate any more. Man's sins were ever increasing until the flood, and the world was getting ever worse each day from perspective of holiness. Likewise, man's sins, today, are getting worse and worse, which calls for God's ultimate punishment. When man's sins reach the peak where they couldn't be worse, mankind will see God's judgment. So, each day we approach the last moment of the earth, doesn't it make sense to say the former days were better than these days? |
Bible Answer: Hello, 00123... When it comes to sinfulness in the eyes of the of our God, it has little to do with the degree that it is visible, but rather what it merits before God's Holiness. We would not, for example, say that some corpses are more dead than other corpses. There is no light deadness and heavier deadness. There is just dead. If God sees it that way, then we should strive to see it that way too. Nonetheless, Scripture has an explicit answer to what God is doing. (Please note that it is fully working out as He intended. There never has been nor will their ever be a "Plan B" as far as God is concerned.) Paul tells us: The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'" "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY." And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH." (Romans 9:20b-29) I would also commend you to the study of Habakkuk. In Him, Doc PS Having been with us so long -- nigh onto seven years -- why don't you update your profile so that we might know more about you? |
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