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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: I would ask the question are man's sins getting worst and worst? Or has our perspective of them changed? We cite drive by shootings where the act itself makes no apparent sense and point to this as an example of people getting worst and worst. But in recorded history we know rulers and warriors would just kill people at random. In one example I find disgusting they would often bury a row of people neck deep in the ground and running back and forth over them with horses until they were dead or slicing their heads off at random. Senseless murders have been with us from the beginning but our perspective, it might happen to me, has changed. We cite sex, again history shows us there is nothing new under the sun. Some of the nastiest pornographic movies that ever existed even when compared to todays were made in the era of the silent films. I think we see things getting worst because our perspective is changing in many cases it is becoming more apparent it can happen to us instead of someone else. However what God sees is unrepentant man up to his neck in the filthy, miry clay of sin. I think this is what Ecc 7:10 is telling us. |
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