Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?— Only what he has already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly As light excels darkness. 14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, But the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived That the same event happens to them all. 15 So I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, It also happens to me, And why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is vanity.” 16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool! 17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
SOAP – Ecclesiastes 2:12-13 Solomon compares his pursuit of knowledge with his pursuit of pleasure and surmises that the pursuit of knowledge is better. However, he states that both the wisdom seeker and the pleasure seeker are destined to the same earthly fate…death. Solomon had temporarily lost sight of the fact that death on earth is not the end. Everyone who dies will face an eternal fate, either in Heaven or in Hell. What we do and the choices we make on this earth matter greatly. But the most important choice we will ever make is whether we will choose to surrender our lives to Jesus Christ as our Savior.