1. There is a time for everything (1-8)

Everything has its proper time to happen. We are born and we die at the proper time. We plant and we harvest at the proper time. We weep or laugh at the proper time. We make war or peace according to the proper time. What is the proper time? It is the time that God sets for everything under the sun. We are not born one minute before the time God sets. And we don't die one minute before what God has determined.

2. God does it so that people will fear Him (9-15)

The Teacher juxtaposes the beauty God gives things with the toil and burden of people. We can see all the things that God has made. We know that God has set a time for all things. Even our burdens can be beautiful when we know God has given them to us at the proper time for a purpose. Yet we don't understand God's purpose for what he gives us. He does this in order that we may fear Him.