Commentary on Selected Verses in Ecclesiastes

                                Ecclesiastes 6:4 (KJB)

Most humans come into the world with the gift of free will from God, but free will in created beings is especially weak. This weakness will inevitably cause most humans, who do not die as small children, to sin. In a sense, all humans who acquire free will are fated to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When humans sin, they become intelligent because they acquire the ability to create beneficial or destructive systems. Humans who are born without free will never acquire this type of overall intelligence. They may become very proficient in certain abilities, but they do not obtain normal intelligence.

As soon as any human sins, the Devil becomes able to inject spiritual death into their inner beings. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Satan happens to be a negative consciousness engendered by a state of absolute nothingness. Ezekiel 28:19 (KJB). God's Word aptly calls this state of absolute nothingness "vanity;" that is, total emptiness. Ecclesiastes 6:4 (KJB). Vanity is the same as spiritual death, and it can cause excessive pride in intelligent humans. I Timothy 3:6 (KJB). When humans become intelligent, the vanity inside of them can cause them to believe that they can invent their own morals and their own societies that will be independent of God's Love and protection. Excessive pride can cause them to believe that they do not need God anymore. They may try to fill that void within themselves with a love for money, power over others, and excessive pleasures. But in their quiet moments, they can often feel that emptiness inside of themselves. But when they return to faith in God's Love and Jesus' sacrifice for them to take that emptiness away, God fills that void with love, peace, and joy in being forever saved. John 5:24; Galatians 5:22-24 (KJB). God annuls the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by grace the moment they believe.

But God will not allow any of His living humans that He created in His image who become covered by the darkness of the regions of death to be lost to that darkness forever. Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to return of their own free will to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings in order to purify them; that is, separate their good and living natures from their spiritual deaths so that He can recreate their living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast all of their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will prove that His Love can never fail and that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

Humans do not need the kind of intelligence that results from a knowledge of good and evil. That kind of intelligence can cause excessive pride and rebellion against God. But God has promised that He will save even the rebellious humans. Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107:8-21 (KJB). Humans need only the kind of intelligence that God gives which is a desire to create only good and beneficial systems. Genesis 2:19-20 (KJB).