Ecclesiastes 12:7

"then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it."then" -following the moment of death. The physical body will immediately begin the process of decay, and the spirit will return to its Creator. Man is. dual being (James 2:26). Here we see the vanity of putting all our hopes and dreams in the beauty or continued existence of the human body. All human bodies eventually end up as. pile of dust.

Points To Note:

2 God is also the author of our spirits (Zech. Ecclesiastes 12:1; Genesis 1:26-27), which clearly establishes the principle of ownership. "The body will revert to its own elements, and the spirit was always God's to give, and God's to take away" (Kidner p. 104). 2. Every spirit is accountable to God and will answer and be judged by God (2 Cor. Ecclesiastes 5:10). Every spirit will meet its Maker. 3. Clearly, death isn't the end of man. We must reject the idea that one ceases to be at death or that man doesn't have. soul. If this is the case, then "what" returns to God? 4. The word "dust" takes our minds back to Genesis 2:7 and Ecclesiastes 3:19. Science tells us that all of the chemicals that make up. man (human body) are also found in the soil.