{"id":176,"date":"2021-03-14T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendshipwaylife.org\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-03-14T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:23:55","slug":"old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendshipwaylife.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Old age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony:<\/strong>  Epi, what can you say about this?

Ecc 12:5 yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:<\/strong>

Ecc 12:6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,<\/strong>
Ecc 12:7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.<\/strong>

I think this has something to do with death. What is that silver chord, golden bowl, pitcher or wheel?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMA:<\/strong> <\/strong> You are right on death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 describe old age leading to death to the youth with an advice to seek God while he is still young and before he grows old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
      Before the difficult days come\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old age is a difficulty to a man that his view of the pleasures he once enjoyed in his youth is, \u201cI have no pleasure in them\u201d (verse 1).
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verses 3-6 use objects to represent parts of the human body of a frail old man (which you and I have not yet reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In verse 3 \u201cthe keepers of the house\u201d could refer to the hands and feet which tremble at old age. The \u201cgrinders\u201d refer to the teeth which become few, and eyes dim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:3 In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,
      And the strong men bow down;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      When the grinders cease because they are few,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And those that look through the windows grow dim;
      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse 4 shows an old man sleeps differently from a baby. He awakes even by just \u201cthe sound of a bird\u201d but he is deaf that he could hardly hear music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:4 When the doors are shut in the streets,
      And the sound of grinding is low;
      When one rises up at the sound of a bird,
      And all the daughters of music are brought low.
  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse 5 describes an old man\u2019s fear of height.  What\u2019s more, his \u201cdesire fails\u201d, even to beautiful young women, he being about to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:5 Also they are afraid of height,
    And of terrors in the way;
    When the almond tree blossoms,
    The grasshopper is a burden,
    And desire fails.

Last part of verse 5 shows a funeral.

    For man goes to his eternal home,
    And the mourners go about the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In verse 6, what you have enumerated (silver chord, golden bowl, pitcher or wheel) just symbolize the point when man ceases to breath at death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      :6 Remember your Creator<\/em> before the silver cord is loosed,
      Or the golden bowl is broken,
      Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,
      Or the wheel broken at the well.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse 7 points where the dead man goes and the return of his breath to God who gave it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   :7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
      And the spirit will return to God who gave it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony:<\/strong>  thanks epi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMA:<\/strong> <\/strong> You’re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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