Monday, September 13, 2010

Do ants really prepare their food in summer and gather their supplies in the harvest?

Proverbs says: “Go to the ant, you lazy one; see its ways and become wise. Although it has no commander, officer or ruler, it prepares its food even in the summer; it has gathered its food supplies even in the harvest.” Several species of ant do, in fact, store food. Likely, the species Solomon referred to-and the most common is the harvester ant (Messor Semirufus).
According to one source, foraging harvester ants leave their nest during favorable weather to search for food and collect seeds throughout the warmer months of the year. They may pick seeds from plants or collect them from the ground. The insects build underground nests close to fields, granaries, or threshing floors, where grain can be found.
Within the nest itself, the ants store food supplies in a series of flat chambers connected by a network of galleries. Their granary chambers may measure up to five inches in diameter and half an inch in height. Well-supplied colonies of harvester ants are thus said to be capable of surviving “for over 4 months with no outside source of food or water.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

The literal Earth will be destroyed?

Jesus statements about the end, raise a number of important questions like does the earth will be completely ruined or destroyed? Many religious people believe that the Bible teaches that the literal earth will be destroyed. Rather than merely accepting what others say, why not open a copy of the Bible and see for yourself what it says about the end of the world? What it teaches may surprise you.

The Bible does not teach that the literal earth will be destroyed. God has founded the earth upon its established places wrote the psalmist. It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever. Nor does the Bible teach that all life will be annihilated in a global conflagration. Instead, the Bible teaches that God will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth”. (Revelation 11:18).