5 Jan 2025

Vanity Mirror — January 5, 2025

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas Preached: January 5, 2025

Introduction

“If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.”Ecclesiastes 6: 3

In other words, it looks like he’s going to live on and on, and had a hundred children, he’s going to live on and on and on, but he’s not filled with God, and the things that come from God, here’s what he said, it’s all vanity. I say that an untimely birth is better than he was.

It means if you have a large family, you live a long life, everyone in your family is well educated, you have an enviable profession, you have wealth and riches, you are highly respected in the society, but you do not have the Lord Jesus, eternal life, a still-born child, who never lived one day on this earth, is better than you.

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”Ecclesiastes 1: 2

“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”Ecclesiastes 1: 3

What profit have the man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? Nothing will last but the labor and the work that we do for the Lord.

Now the Lord wants His people to have nice things, Solomon said so himself, wealth and riches, but all of these things are still vanity. And the Lord will give the prosperity, and the Lord will give you this, and the Lord will give you that. But it’s still considered all vanity when it’s said and done, except your salvation and your eternal life. So, He wants you to have all that, but it all becomes vanity, worthless.

All of these things, is vanity, shall pass away, but what counts is hold on to the spiritual; the material things, they are all gone. They will go, James says; they’re all like a vapor, so are men; like a flower that fadeth away, and is blown away as the grass. And your life, that we have upon this earth, is as a vapor.

Jesus is your all and all. Take the things of life as you will. Believe God for the material and the spiritual as you will. But remember this in your heart, those are only things that kind of go along with your life, your job, and so forth like that, that the real value, and the real thing, that is not vanity, is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is perfect

Vanity is like an illusion. It is like, not having Christ, it is vanity, it is illusion. If you do not have Christ, you have an illusion. If you have Christ, you have no more illusion. You have the real thing, saith Lord, you have the Lord Jesus, which is no vanity. You have a living God, eternal life, which is not worthless, but which is great gain, which cannot transpire, which cannot fade away, which cannot go away, it is eternal, will never pass away.

But when God comes back, turns this earth into a new heavens and a new earth, vanity is gone. Vanity has fled, worthlessness is gone, Christ sits, there is your value, there is your substance, there is your faith, there is your word, there is your power, there is eternal life, He is all and all.

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11: 3).

BEAUTIFUL CITIES – Jesus, you are more than this who created all the beauty around us and the awesome heavens, universes and stars! One day beside the Holy City we will see beautiful cities and places of such wonder of thy creation! Besides the stars and heavens you have created magnificent things that we have not seen! “Beautiful colors of icy wonder like, of spiritual fires and lights of such beauty, and creatures likewise of such formation that we will be amazed and startled by such a creator of so many more things that can not be mentioned and are without number! Such glorious spiritual colors never seen or beheld by man’s eyes!” – Surely and definitely many marvelous mysteries await us that love Him! Literally more than trillions of creations will He unveil to His chosen!

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “Vanity Mirror”, CD # 1164, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

Now unity or vanity? Vanity Mirror. All nations in vanity. There’s not many sermons preached from the Book of Proverbs or the Ecclesiastes, or the Song of Solomon. Many times, when Solomon would talk and when he would preach, he called himself the preacher. That means somebody that gives advice. Somebody that’s telling them about moral conditions, about different conditions, about mankind, and he called himself the preacher. Yet he was the wisest man that ever lived in the world. And he chose to use the term preacher, instead of an evangelist or prophet or anything like that. He just said he was the preacher.

Vanity mirror, all nations getting caught up into the vanity mirror. Ecclesiastes 1: 1 – 12: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, King in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanities of vanity, all is vanity.

What profit have the man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? He don’t have any profit at all unless he work for the Lord. Nothing will last but the labor and the work that we do for the Lord. The other, although God gives it to us, is vanity. It will disappear right away.

One generation passes away. You can’t do no more about it, it’s gone. I don’t care how long they said they was going to live. How long they were going to do this, how long they were going to do that. One generation passes away, it’s vanity. And another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever for God made it. You believe that, all things pass away but what God does not want to pass away.

Now the Lord wants His people to have nice strings, Solomon said so himself, wealth and riches, but all of these things are still vanity. How many of you know that? And the Lord will give the prosperity, and the Lord will give you this, and the Lord will give you that. But it’s still considered all vanity when it’s said and done, except your salvation and your eternal life. So, He wants you to have all that, but it all becomes vanity, worthless.

Now, vanity is pride or being proud of something that is worthless, that will pass away. Vanity is pride in something worthless. It will all vanish no matter how wealthy it is, or no matter what it is, except God’s Saints. Get hold of all the spiritual you can, and hold onto it, because here’s what’s going to survive, hold on to it, all the spiritual that you can get.

You know in the Bible, vanity, mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest church and richest of them all? Babylon says on the beast, and she sits and looks upon the mirror, and says I’m the richest, and the fairest, and the beautiful of them all churches. Revelations 17 bears that out. Revelations 3 of 17 says we’re rich, we have need of nothing, the other woman says. There are two women, see, and each one of them said they are the fairest of them all, but they’re worthless, saith the Lord, and I will spew them out, like I said I would.

Vanity, vanity, who’s the fairest of them all, saith the Lord? Solomon said the bride, the elect, is the fairest of them all, fairest as the moon, as the banner that goes forth. The elect is the fairest of them all. That’s right. They can say what they want to before, glamorize it, raise himself up and sit upon high, saith the Lord, that makes no difference, I do the choosing. Later he wrote, he said the horseleech has two daughters that saith give, give, sounds like mystery Babylon and apostate Protestants, and always they extract blood, blood suckers of the earth wind up with it all.

God knows what vanity is. He knows what it’s all about. Vanity is pride in something that is worthless. And pride into vanity in yourself will be in vain. See, someday you’re going to get old, you’re going to pass on. Do you believe that? Even ugliness, it’s vanity, so is beauty. It changes, goes away. The thing is not vanity is a glorified body in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we go to verse 5. Now the sun also rises, and the sun goeth down. It hasteth to go to his place where it arose, goes up, goes down. Solomon is going to show us something here in a minute. Well, actually the earth is in its orbit. It’s turned on one side. That’s why the cold, down in there, when it passes, and the Earth orbits about the sun. It is the earth that orbits about the sun that makes it look like the sun goes up and the sun goes down. It’s our orbit that causes that, and as the Earth tilts on its axis, see God tilted that on its axis there. But it just keeps going up, coming down. He’s going to tell you some more about the Sun, and that tells you there how it works right there, how the earth is tilted. And then we just reach one point, how the cold stays where it’s cold, where it never turns to that point like the sun reaches the rest of the earth, like the Arctic, and so forth like that. But it’s the earth going in its orbit about the sun that causes the sun to make it look like it’s going up and down. It’s only going in retrogradation very slowly, but it’s the earth that passes.

The wind goeth toward the south. Now the wind goeth towards the south. It turns about into the north. It’s just a going and a coming, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits. Our weather patterns are changing for the great Tribulation, and for the end of the world, and for the changing back into the Millennium. All these things are taking place. They’ll be out of their circuits.

All the rivers run into the sea. Yet the sea is not full, until the place from whence the rivers come, hither they return again. It’s just like the sun. It goes right up and down, up and down, going round like a circle like it says in there. You say how does that work? The rivers, rain water comes to the rivers, rivers go back into the sea, yet it’s not full, and out of vapor of the water goes back up in the heavens. As the sun shines upon the sea it vaporizes, it goes back up in the heavens. The wind blow and then the rain comes back again. It repeats the cycle. It’s like this. It goes up and down, and the rain comes back again and again, up and down like that. Men did not know that all the rivers run into the sea until lately. But the Bible knew it thousands of years ago, the Bible gave it here. They did not know about the earth and the sun there, but there it is, as Solomon tells us. These things are all repeating themselves and he has a reason to say that they repeat themselves. Now all the rivers run through from which it come, goes again, up in the cycle, goes up and down.

All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. All day long, men and women look in the shops. They shop, they go here and there, and they look, and they look, until their neck is stretched. And they look, and they look, and they look, and then they go home and watch TV half the night and then fall asleep. They can’t get enough of looking. I wonder how many are looking for Christ like that. All day long, you looking for him? You’ll find him that way.

And they go to sleep. The next morning. They are up early. They’re looking or listening again by radio or TV. They are looking, they are listening. Phone ringing, talking about business.

The thing that, in other words, Solomon said the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be after. What has been before shall come again. Jesus come one time, He’s going to come again, definite on it. Our sun going up and down, the moon going back and forth, the earth turning away, the way it’s doing, making it cause all them things, He’s trying to show us, the wind, the circuits, the way it comes, and rain, over, over, and over, back and forth, it shows the Lord is coming again.

He said, is there any new thing under the sun that hasn’t been before? Is there anything thereof? It may be said, see, this is new? Can you say that? It has been already of old time, which was before us. Sounds like God had other places, didn’t it? Beyond what we’ve got on this earth, probably. He’s no little God. He didn’t set up shop 6,000 years ago when the seed of man come upon this earth. We don’t even know what was here before that because the Bible said it’s just timeless. It’s a man, Adam’s seed, to come here so long ago. The recreation took place about 6,000 years ago too, something like that, maybe a little bit further in there, as He done that. No new thing, Solomon says. What has been before shall come again. Is there any new thing? He said it’s before us. Anything that has come again, now of old time, which was before us.

In Hebrews, it said worlds. Worlds mean people that can be on them, be somebody’s on there because it said worlds in the Bible. Man cannot get out there, but little ways out here, not way over in there. They don’t know what sets out in there. They have no idea how many Angels populate that place. How many, whoever God has, or whatever, He’s created in other planets. They don’t know anything about that. We know very little about it, but we know, according to God, he’s a busy God, and He does love His creation, and creatures. How many of you know that? and His people. That’s exactly right. But Solomon makes it as though what we’re doing upon this earth, forget it. He said it’s done been done before. I know what was done before, God saw the whole thing and put it out in handiwork of visions. How many of you know it. It’s already been done before.

But this one was, have been already of old time, which was before us, that means the human mankind, before us.

There is no remembrance of the former things. Neither shall there be any remembrance of the things that are to come with those that shall come after.

God’s going to fix it all. Vanity of vanity, all of it going up and down, going this way, going that way. Vanity, saith the preacher of vanities.

1 Corinthians 2: 14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. There’s what’s going wrong. For they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. It’s all foolish to the carnal mind, it’s all foolish to him. He don’t understand the things of God, don’t want to understand the things of God, but being spiritual this morning, saith the Lord, can you not understand the things that I have already written to you? You know that Bible is written, was of old time before us. It was in the word, the word in the beginning was with God. Solomon’s right. Everything back there in the mind of God, the heart of God. How great it is.

Ecclesiastes 6: 3, 4, 6, and then verse 12. If a man begat 100 children, live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with the good things and the Spirit of God. And also that he have no burial. In other words, it looks like he’s going to live on and on, and had a hundred children, he’s going to live on and on and on, but he’s not filled with God, and the things that come from God, here’s what he said, it’s all vanity. I say that an untimely birth is better than he was.

For he cometh in with vanity, and he departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness, because he has not God, not the things of God. In one place in the Bible, it said, if God giveth, all the things that the Lord gives him in prosperity and gifts, and whatever he has, and he has God, he will rejoice, and time will pass, and God will bless him. But the man that has all of these things that God allows him to have, rich things, and all of these things too, and that man that God allows it, and he does not have God or want God, then to him, it’s worthless vanity.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, although he lived for 2000 years, twice told, yet hath he seen no good. Do not all go to the same place, called the grave?

So we find out, he saw, in case you didn’t get it about no burial, he went on down here in verse 6, yea, though he lived a thousand years twice told, yet he had seen no good. Do not all go to the same place?, the grave. It don’t make any difference. They are all going there, and then God divides where the spirits go, the personalities.

And then it says here in verse 12, part of it, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth, is like a shadow. All the vain days of his life is like a shadow. It is gone. It is like grass, it’s like a vapor. It is like a second in God’s time. Man’s life on this earth is like a second in God’s time.

All of it passes away without Christ, but the natural man receiveth not the spiritual things of the Lord. And though he live, twice told, a thousand years twice, and he has not these things in God, they all go to same place, it don’t make no difference, how short or how long, how rich or how poor, God will do the dividing.

You know what Solomon said? He said, love your wife, remember God in your heart, because that’s all you are going to get out of this world with.

Proverbs 30: 11: There is a generation that curses their father and doeth not bless their mother. That’s the generation that we live in.

Solomon looked down through the corridors of time. He saw visions too. Some of the things I read, it came from visions from God. Other times it just come from, he had a great gift of, knowledge which stretches out into the future and wisdom.

And he said there is a generation that curses their father and doeth not bless their mother. We’re living in that generation right now and it’s thus saith the Lord.

Then he says here, there is a generation behind that, in the next verse, there is a generation that are pure. O, they’re perfect in their own eyes. And yet it’s not washed from their filthiness. The great church systems on the earth have given forgiveness through cards and traditions, and all kinds of things. The sinner says I’m as good as the church people down there. They’re all over here, they’re smoking, they’re drinking, they’re running their crowds in there, they’re doing this, they’re doing that, all over. They’re full of unbelief, they’re full of doubts, you see no miracles. But who’s the fairest of them all? The elect is doing the miracles. Now at the very end of the age, there’ll be a large Pentecostal build places and great things like that, and they’ll imitate right along, but they’re going right on into the Vatican, right on into the Babylon systems of this world.

Now, there is a generation, they say, O, we’re okay in their eyes. But he said they’re not washed from their filthiness, and God said I will spew them out of my mouth.

Then the next verse, 13, each verse has one. Here it is a third generation, another generation, it’s the same generation He’s talking about. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes at the end of the age. You watch that because the Bible even says how haughty, how lofty, are their eyes. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up, eyelashes, great, huge. Now this is the same you read the first about the mother and father, and the same that you read about they thought it okay and all of that with the church system, and the next generation about the eyes that run right along there with it, and their eyes are all lifted up.

There is another time, he says again. There is a generation whose teeth are as swords. That’s war, and their jaw teeth are knives. That’s four generations, the same one here, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. That’s your antichrist system. Great weapons, the forcing of the mark of the beast.

Each one of these are prophecy of the future, the last generation that shall be upon this earth. There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, that’s warrior stuff, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth. That generation wants to do that by saying peace, peace, we give you this, we give you that, until they get the mark of the beast on you. To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. There is a generation of weapons that shall try to wipe out everything upon the earth.

Verse 15: The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, give, give, give. Apostate Protestants, the Babylonian systems. See, horseleach, blood extractors, and they extract the blood upon the earth and the riches upon the earth. That’s not speaking about individuals at all, it’s symbolizing the whole thing at the end of the age because he just got through with those generations.

Then he says, after that, there are three things that are never satisfied, yea, I say four things say not is enough. They never say it’s enough.

Solomon says the grave, dying, dying, the earth just keeps filling up, grave, grave. It never says enough, build another grave.

And the barren womb which always wants a child. But the barren one, the woman that doesn’t have one, sometimes she really doesn’t know the Lord, will say it is not enough.

So, we find the grave and the barren womb, never enough.

The earth that is not filled with water. It can rain and flood, pretty soon it says give me more water in the desert. I can’t have no water over here.

And the fire that saith not it is enough. Now you start a fire, and as long as there’s something to burn, it’ll never stop.

There is a generation likened to all of this that we’re talking about. Vanity, vanity, vanity, no purpose.

Solomon said love your wife, remember God in your heart, because that’s all you are going to come out of this thing with.

And it’s good, Solomon said, for God to bless His people and for men to prosper that believe. But they’ll find out themselves, even in the comfort of that they will enjoy, because God will allow it. If they didn’t have him, they wouldn’t. But they will find that all of that will fade. Though they live twice, told a thousand years, they all go to same place till God does the dividing, which is the grave.

Wisdom, saith the preacher. All over the Bible, he called himself the preacher, meaning one that gives advice. Preacher, one that gives advice on many different subjects. An instructor, man of knowledge, a man of wisdom.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. The great church systems say we’re the fairest of them all. We sit upon the beast. We are rich and have need of nothing, not even God. All we need is a superhuman to guide us, the Antichrist.

But he looks and says, the fairest of them all, Solomon said, was the elect bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the fairest of them all.

There is a generation four times. And we’re coming into that generation, and yea, you’re going out of it, saith the Lord, soon.

Scripture Reading

“If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.”Ecclesiastes 6: 3

“For he cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.”Ecclesiastes 6: 4

For he cometh in with vanity, and he departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness, because he has not God, not the things of God. In one place in the Bible, it said, if God giveth, all the things that the Lord gives him in prosperity and gifts and whatever he has, and he has God, he will rejoice, and time will pass, and God will bless him. But the man that has all of these things that God allows him to have rich things, and all of these things too, and that man that God allows it, and he does not have God or want God, then to him, it’s worthless vanity.

“And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”Luke 12: 16 – 21

“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”Ecclesiastes 6: 6

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, although he lived for 2000 years, twice told, yet hath he seen no good. Do not all go to the same place, called the grave?

So we find out, he saw, in case you didn’t get it about no burial, he went on down here in verse 6, yea, though he lived a thousand years twice told, yet he had seen no good, do not all go to the same place?, the grave. They are all going there, and then God divides where the spirits go, the personalities.

“For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”Ecclesiastes 6: 12

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”Ecclesiastes 1: 2

“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”Ecclesiastes 1: 3

What profit have the man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? Nothing will last but the labor and the work that we do for the Lord.

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11: 3).

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Vanity Mirror — January 5, 2025

Vanity Mirror — January 5, 2025

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