ARE YOU WISER THAN AN ANT?

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 The Anointing of Solomon by CORNELIS DE VOS (c. 1630) 




I heard a nursery rhyme when I was in elementary school about " the wise old owl!"  I always wondered how did my teacher know an owl was wise!


I had never given much thought to animal

behavior until I started watching nature shows. The natural instinct God put in animals is amazing!  The time and money spent on producing shows about animals proves that their behavior is worth studying.



During my Bible study I discovered that some creatures were considered to be wise! 





 PROVERBS 30:24





There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise.




The scriptures mentioned four creatures.
There might be more than four creatures 
that are considered wise.  I don't plan to 
argue with Solomon's or the Bible's definition of wisdom.

 1 KINGS 3:10, 12


10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 

12 Behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and
understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall 
any like you arise after you. 


Here are some scriptures in the Bible about

wise creatures:

 


ANT





















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PROVERBS  6:6





Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise.





PROVERBS  30:25





The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summer.







ROCK BADGER

























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PSALM 104: 18





The high hills are for the wild goats;

The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers







 PROVERBS  30:26







The rock badgers are a feeble folk,

Yet they make their homes in the crags

(rocky areas).






LOCUST 























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Exodus 10:12




Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land—
all that the hail has left.”







JOB 39:20




Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.







PSALM  78:46





He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.







PROVERBS 30:27 





The locusts have no king,

Yet they all advance in ranks.






 

SPIDER


































JOB 8:14



Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider’s web.



  

PROVERB  30:28 





The spider  skillfully grasps with its hands,

And it is in kings’ palaces.




ISAIAH 59:4-6





4 No one calls for justice,

Nor does any plead for truth.

They trust in empty words and speak lies;

They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.

5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

6 Their webs will not become garments,

Nor will they cover themselves with their works;

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is in their hands.











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