TODAY'S NEW LESSON ...

I am currently reading a Book. I bought this one digitally, and am going through it with my little Kindle, an electronic reader. I can still underline key sentences even!

Anyway, the Book discusses the subject of "Insects Used In Warfare." Throughout history the author means!

This concept became more alluring to me after studying Revelation chapter nine, in the "seven trumpets" section of John's last-days Epistle. "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." Revelation 9:1-3

God using insects, though giant ones, to punish sin! This particular Revelation Text is literally describing an "invasion from Hell!" From the "abyss," the Greek noun here translated "bottomless pit." Demons unleashed on planet earth! Not to kill people either, just to hurt them, inflict pain, torment them!

I've already learned in my reading that as long as man has been able to write, back to Moses' day and long before ... we have records of humankind using God's creation, insects especially, as weapons!

Ancient Roman and Egyptian and Greek annals are filled with such accounts. A hive of bees captured and thrown into the cave where your enemy is sleeping!

Then it dawned on me, God has used insects to teach or discipline or warn folks for years!

We'll just go to Egypt today for our illustrations. The plagues of course! There and then God instructed Moses regarding infestations of flies, lice, frogs and such ... hoards of these little things to persuade Pharaoh to let Israel go free!

God, using insects!

Then later, when the Jews were conquering Canaan, the Promised Land, God sent "hornets" to frustrate and scatter the enemy peoples!

God to Israel: "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee." Exodus 23:28

"Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed." Deuteronomy 7:20

What a God!

What protection!

Such thinking just makes me want to love Him more and more.

I can hardly wait to preach His Word again tonight. We're in Kentucky this week, in Revival Meeting.

God is the God of the big things.

And the small ones too!

                         --- Dr. Mike Bagwell

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