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Bugs They bug Me! Part 3
This is our third and final article of the “insect series”. The Bible’s use of insects can
teach us lessons about life and about the way we are to act. The Bible also uses insects in a
descriptive way to help us understand difficult concepts. Today we will look at two additional
ways in which insects are used in the Bible.
A hard concept for most of us to understand is the power of God. In the Old Testament
we see God’s power described as hornets going out before Israel to fight the enemies that they
were to face. "I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the
Canaanites, and the Hittites before you” (Exodus 23:28). " Moreover, the LORD your God will
send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish”
(Deuteronomy 7:20).“Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove out the two kings of the
Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow” (Joshua 24:12). God shows his
power and fights for the Israelite people as they enter the land of Canaan, as long as they are
faithful to His commands.
People are compared to grasshoppers when Isaiah paints a picture of God and the earth.
“It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who
stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in” (Isaiah
40:22)? The Israelite spies sent to look over the land of Canaan saw themselves as grasshoppers
when they saw the Nephilim in Canaan for the first time. "There also we saw the Nephilim (the
sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and
so we were in their sight" (Numbers 13:33). How do you see yourself ? ~B Tolbert
