Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Because the life story is now told.There are no more questions about what will become of this life. Some folks who have great promise mess up really badly in the end. A preacher was beloved all across the country and considered one of the great Baptist preachers of the century. All the while, we learn now, was molesting children in his school.
Because the worries of life are over.
Toils and troubles with finances, people, governments, illness and the like are all over. Even the lost, who have no hope, see the relief when a suffering person finally passes from this life.
Gill says, "It is indeed reported of some Heathenish and barbarous people in Thrace, and who inhabited Mount Caucasus, that they mourned at the birth of their children, reckoning up the calamities they are entering into, and rejoiced at the death of their friends, being delivered from their troubles:"
Because there is a real heaven that belongs to the child of God.
And since this is a passage belonging to the believer we may safely assume the Word of God is speaking from that standpoint. The day of death is certainly not better that the day of birth for a lost man. Far from being over, his troubles, now in hell, are just beginning.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Because the life story is now told.There are no more questions about what will become of this life. Some folks who have great promise mess up really badly in the end. A preacher was beloved all across the country and considered one of the great Baptist preachers of the century. All the while, we learn now, was molesting children in his school.
Because the worries of life are over.
Toils and troubles with finances, people, governments, illness and the like are all over. Even the lost, who have no hope, see the relief when a suffering person finally passes from this life.
Gill says, "It is indeed reported of some Heathenish and barbarous people in Thrace, and who inhabited Mount Caucasus, that they mourned at the birth of their children, reckoning up the calamities they are entering into, and rejoiced at the death of their friends, being delivered from their troubles:"
Because there is a real heaven that belongs to the child of God.
And since this is a passage belonging to the believer we may safely assume the Word of God is speaking from that standpoint. The day of death is certainly not better that the day of birth for a lost man. Far from being over, his troubles, now in hell, are just beginning.
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