Was Solomon Out of Fellowship With God When He Wrote Ecclesiastes?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about the author of Ecclesiastes. Could an idolater, such as Solomon was in the latter part of his life or reign, have been an author of a book of the Bible? What will it be like in the future kingdom for Solomon? We invite you to listen today (and each weekday) to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Solomon and Tolstoy on the Problem of Death and Eternity (Ecclesiastes 3:11) 

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King Solomon repeatedly pronounced that everything under the sun was vanity—it was meaningless. In an earlier blog, I said that Solomon’s argument could be put in the form of a syllogism: Premise 1: All labor is under the sun (Eccl 1:3). Premise 2: All under the sun is vanity (Eccl 1:14). Conclusion: Therefore, all labor
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Four Reasons the Doctrine of Eternal Rewards Answers Solomon’s Quest for Meaning

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The teacher in Ecclesiastes—who was most likely King Solomon—was on a search for the meaning of life “under the sun.” However, all his attempts to find meaning failed. He looked for purpose through pursuing wisdom (Eccl 1:12-14, 18), pleasure (Eccl 2:10-11), legacy (Eccl 2:18-20), wealth (Eccl 5:10-11), even children (Eccl 6:3-4)—among other things—and concluded all
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Ecclesiastes in a Syllogism

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As I was making lunch, my son, Zane, came into the kitchen and asked, “Has it been an hour yet?” “An hour from when?” “No! Just, has it been an hour?” “From now? I’ll have to start counting.” “No from later.” “Well, if it’s an hour from later, then it hasn’t happened yet, because it’s
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