Time & Season

[Ecc. 1] To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Time – to an appointed time set aside for each of the purposes described.
The scope of these verses is to show:
1. G-d by His providence governs the world, and has determined particular things and operations to particular times.
2. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year.
3. That every change concerning us, with the time and season of it, is unalterably fixed and determined by a supreme power; and we must take things as they come, for it is not in our power to change what is appointed for us.
4. We live in a world of changes and therefore have no reason to say; tomorrow shall be as this day, neither lifted up with hopes, nor cast down with fears, but with evenness of mind expecting every event.
5. Those things which to us seem most casual and conditional are, in the counsel and foreknowledge of G-d, punctually determined, and the very hour of them is fixed, and can neither be anticipated nor delay a moment.
6. The proof and illustration of it by the induction of particulars, twenty-eight in number, according to the days of the moon's revolution, which is always increasing or decreasing between its full and change. Some of these changes are purely the act of G-d, others depend more upon the will of man, but all are determined by the divine counsel.
7. Every thing under heaven is thus changeable, but in heaven there is an unchangeable state, and an unchangeable counsel concerning these things.
A season - A certain time appointed by G-d for its being and continuance, which no human wit or providence can alter. And by virtue of this appointment of G-d, all vicissitudes which happen in the world, whether comforts or calamities, come to pass. Which is here added to prove the principal plan that all things are vain, and happiness is not to be found in them, because of their great uncertainty, and flexibility, because they are so much out of the reach and power of men, and wholly in the disposal of G-d.
Man has his appointed cycle of seasons and vicissitudes, as the sun, wind, and water.
There is a fixed "season" in G-d's "purposes" (for example, He has fixed the "time" when man is "to be born," and "to die," so there is a lawful "time" for man to carry out his "purposes" and inclinations. G-d does not condemn, but approves of, the use of earthly blessings; it is the abuse that He condemns, the making them the chief end (1 Cor. 7:31). The earth, without human desires, love, taste, joy, sorrow, would be a dreary waste, without water; but, on the other hand, the misplacing and excess of them, as of a flood, need control. Reason and revelation are given to control them.
Purpose - Not only natural, but even the voluntary actions of men, are ordered and disposed by G-d. But it must be considered, that he does not here speak of a time allowed by G-d, wherein all the following things may lawfully be done, but only of a time fixed by G-d, in which they are actually done.
Earthly pursuits are no doubt lawful in their proper time and order, but unprofitable when out of time and place according to G-d’s order of things; as for instance, when pursued as the solid and chief good; whereas G-d makes everything beautiful in its season, which man unclearly comprehends. G-d allows man to enjoy moderately and virtuously His earthly gifts. What consoles us amidst the instability of earthly blessings is G-d's counsels are unchallengeable.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime;