conclusions” to get to the purpose of the book.27 To that helpful reading strategy, we may add that if we read the book through the lens of Jesus Christ—the true embodiment of wisdom who has crushed the curse of death on the cross, brought hope through his resurrection, and will bring justice at his return—we actually understand the book better. Put simply, the best way to read Ecclesiastes, as we have noted, is as (1) God’s wisdom literature (2) with a unified message (3) that makes better (but