What is the meaning of Ecclesiastes 3:15? What exists has already been Solomon restates the theme he introduced earlier: “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Everything we see today—trends, struggles, victories—has already cycled through human history under God’s sovereign gaze. • God’s purposes do not change (Psalm 33:11). • His works were “finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). • Jesus is “the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). Knowing this steadies us: life may surprise us, but it never surprises the Lord. and what will be has already been The future is as settled to God as the past is to us. “I declare the end from the beginning,” He says in Isaiah 46:9-10. • He is “the Alpha and the Omega… who is, and who was, and who is to come” (Revelation 1:8). • Every moment of our lives is written in His book before one of them comes to be (Psalm 139:16). • This certainty invites confident obedience; our tomorrows are held in hands that already know their outcome. for God will call to account what has passed Because God rules time, He will also judge time. Nothing slips through the cracks. “Each of us will give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12). • “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:10). • “There is no creature hidden from His sight” (Hebrews 4:13). • Acts 17:31 assures us that God “has set a day when He will judge the world in righteousness.” This promise comforts the faithful and cautions the careless: justice delayed is not justice denied. summary Ecclesiastes 3:15 affirms God’s absolute sovereignty over past, present, and future. What we experience today has already been known and governed by Him; what lies ahead is equally secure in His eternal plan. Because He will ultimately call every deed to account, we can live with peaceful assurance and purposeful integrity, trusting the One who stands outside time yet works within it for His glory and our good. |
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