The Seasons of God’s Sovereign Providence

Previous article in this series: May 1, 2011, p. 346. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven". Eccl. 3:1 Having pointed us to the transitory character of life and its vanity under the sun, Solomon turns to the seeming pattern of life in the world. The text presents a series of contrasts that embrace the bearing of children and birth, death and dying, planting and rooting up, and killing and healing. The contrasts encompass the circumstances and affairs of...