The ant.

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

One evening in the early sixties, my brother said to me, come down stairs to the basement I have something to show you. Apparently, it must have been something in the basement that I have not noticed before, and I, having a curious mind and always willing to learn something new, agreed to go down stairs with him. He said, that he just caught a spider about the size of a small pea and he was going to feed it to his ant colony. Oh! yes, his ant colony, it consisted of a one square foot of board, glass tubing, and corks, and on it he had a collection of old litmus paper vials, they look like small test tubes, a half an inch in diameter, and the bottom was flat, so it could stand on it's end. He had this 2 and 1/2 inch cork stopper at the center and glass tubing going out from the round cork, so that it gave the appearance of spokes of a wheel, there were about 7 or so pieces of glass tubing, radiating out from the cork and the end of the glass tubing, there were the litmus paper vials with small cork in it to make it a chamber. Here you have this large cork as the hub and glass tubing going out from the center, and ending up into a litmus paper vials. In several of the vials there was sand, in one vile he had a small piece of cloth, that he would moisten, because he know that they needed moisture. Some of the vials had white eggs in them, which would make them the nursery, and you could see the ants carrying the eggs to other chambers. Oh! Yes, in the main cork that served as the hub there was a hole in it, that they made, not to escape, for they had every thing that they needed, but to get rid of there trash, that's right they had their own private dump, for refuse, and you could see a pile under the hole in the cork. In one vial he would put a half of a peanut for their staple diet, and another vial he would put some left over tiny scraps of meat. And as a special treat he would put a insect, like a fly, in one of the chambers, and he was going to put this spider into one of those vials where occasional insect would go.

Now, the reason, why my brother knew so much about ants, was because while he was in high school, he did a term paper, on the life of the ant. He was greatly surprised as to the information that he learned, and he shared some of it with me, which I also found very interesting. Here are some of the amazing things that I found out from him. Ants come in many sizes, some keep gardens, some keep slaves, some take care of aphids and milk them and protect them, the list goes on and on to numerous to mention. Maybe this is why he wanted to major in biology, in college.

Well anyway, getting back to our spider, as I said that the ant species that he kept was of the very small variety, about half the size of a regular garden ant. One day he had come across these ants and dug up the colony and got the queen and placed her into his colony. So that this spider, in comparison to the ants was a gigantic giant. The spider was placed into the chamber, or vial, and then we could see the ants coming down the glass tubing to have a great feast, and I thought that lunch would be served, but things didn't happen as I suspected, for one thing the spider looked like he took a defensive position, and as the ants would come through the glass tubing into the chamber, the spider would dispatch them one at a time, so that you had one spider and about dozen dead ants, score one for the spider, the ants stopped all of a sudden, now what? The remaining ants started to retreat, I guess they knew, they were loosing, where they going to regroup and send their best fighters out, no. It seemed, that this time the ants that were approaching the spider were caring rocks, well, not rocks but relatively speaking about their size, it was particles of sand, comparing it their size, it might as well have been rocks. Insects with their exoskeleton, have tremendous strength, but how are these rocks or sand particles going to hurt this giant. The ants would come to the edge of the opening and threw there sand particles at the spider, I could see that they were not aiming at the spider, but they were just dropping the sand particles into the chamber, but now, not a single ant was being dispatched or killed. You could see there was a tiny pile begging to accumulate a the bottom or edge of the glass tubing, I could see that this was going to take some time for this battle strategy, so I took a break, and went up stairs, and would check on them from time to time, and my brother did the same. You could see that the vial was beginning to fill up with sand and the spider had less room to manoeuver, the ants kept this up, until they had the spider pinned at the top corner of the vile, as I said the vials had flat bottoms, so that this pea size spider was pinned to the roof of the vile, and not one ant was lost, and when the spider had no more room to maneuver, they went in at their leisure and this time dispatched the spider, they took him apart, piece by piece and served him to the rest of the colony.

This has made a great impression upon me, to think, that one could learn such profound knowledge from this simple insignificant insect. Truly, wisdom can be found in the study of this small insect as stated in Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: And how true is the statement found in Job 12:9 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? The evolutionist can not see the hand of God in all this wonderful creation, and have taken dominance in our society, in the leadership of most of the higher learning institutions, and may I add, the school of journalism, they have their sacred cow, and they want you to follow along blindly. And truly what was said of the religious leaders in Christ's time can be said of these evolutionist leaders and there sacred evolution cow worship. Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

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Pete P. Repich