In Eccl.9, the subject moves back and forth about the "dead" vs. those in God's Salvation. One must first understand who those "dead" are that Solomon is really speaking about.
Isa 26:14
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
KJV
Eccl 9:5
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
KJV
The Isaiah 26:14 is one the examples in the OT that points to the Rephaim (giants). In some OT Scripture the Hebrew word there was brought into the KJV Engslish as Rephaim. They shall not be resurrected. That's the contrasting 'dead' that Solomon is using in the Eccl.9 Scripture. Or maybe you think that "neither have they any more a reward" actually applies to those in Christ that have died???
Thus in the OT, there is an idea of the truly... 'dead', meaning they will never be resurrected, and that's as dead as it gets. They fit the pattern of Satan's future death who has already been judged and sentenced to perish.
A little later, in Eccl.12, Solomon shows us what happens at flesh death of our flesh bodies. Our flesh is severed from our spirit, the flesh going back to the ground where it came from. But our spirit goes back to God Who gave it. In Matt.10:28 Jesus showed that our soul has continued existence after flesh death. Solomon revealed the "silver cord" in Eccl.12, something invisible that keeps our flesh and spirit joined while alive in the flesh. When it is severed at flesh death, our soul with spirit goes back to God.
Gen 6:3
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
KJV
2 Cor 5:1-9
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7(For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
KJV
John 5:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him That sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
KJV
Isa 26:14
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
KJV
Eccl 9:5
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
KJV
The Isaiah 26:14 is one the examples in the OT that points to the Rephaim (giants). In some OT Scripture the Hebrew word there was brought into the KJV Engslish as Rephaim. They shall not be resurrected. That's the contrasting 'dead' that Solomon is using in the Eccl.9 Scripture. Or maybe you think that "neither have they any more a reward" actually applies to those in Christ that have died???
Thus in the OT, there is an idea of the truly... 'dead', meaning they will never be resurrected, and that's as dead as it gets. They fit the pattern of Satan's future death who has already been judged and sentenced to perish.
A little later, in Eccl.12, Solomon shows us what happens at flesh death of our flesh bodies. Our flesh is severed from our spirit, the flesh going back to the ground where it came from. But our spirit goes back to God Who gave it. In Matt.10:28 Jesus showed that our soul has continued existence after flesh death. Solomon revealed the "silver cord" in Eccl.12, something invisible that keeps our flesh and spirit joined while alive in the flesh. When it is severed at flesh death, our soul with spirit goes back to God.
Gen 6:3
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
KJV
2 Cor 5:1-9
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7(For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
KJV
John 5:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him That sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
KJV
