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Consider the Ant

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I was challenged recently to justify Proverbs 6:6-8, which reads as follows: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." The challenge, as might be guessed, was not to the instruction of the verse but to the statement that the ant has "no guide, overseer, or ruler". Don't we know that ants have queens? Therefore is it not an error in the Bible to say that the ant has no ruler? Let's consider the verse itself first, and what it means to say that the ant has no guide, overseer, or ruler. The context is the work of the individual ant, and the verse is saying that insofar as this activity is concerned, the ant is independent and free rather than following a leader, being driven by a taskmaster, or obeying the command of a ruler. They are wise because they know the benefit of preparing now, when conditions are good, for...
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MORE THAN COMMANDMENTS

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Have you ever wondered why the Ten Commandments repeatedly say, "Thou Shalt Not"? Not, "Thou should not," or "Thou must not," but, "Thou shalt not."  "Should", speaks of what is right, and "Must" speaks of what is commanded, but both what is right and what is commanded may be disobeyed. That there is a difference in meaning between these words and "shall" is evident, although we tend to gloss over it as though it were merely a rhetorical flourish.  The Bible never uses words solely for rhetorical flourish, as those words would be vain.  Everything is meaningful.  When the prophet asks, "And the prophets, do they live for ever?" (Zech 1:5b), the rhetorically implied answer is no but the true answer is also yes.  So let us look at the commonly understood rhetorical meaning first. The Commandments were given to the children of Israel to be obeyed. But the Israelites failed to obey, making and bowing down to a ...
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The Fear of the LORD Through the Scriptures

"And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day."  Deut 6:24 Notice that the children of Israel were commanded to fear God for their good always, and that the fear of the LORD is linked to obedience to all His statutes.  In other words, the fear of the LORD makes us obedient to God and this obedience results in our good. "T hou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD ."  Lev 19:14 The deaf man cannot hear what you are saying, and the blind man cannot see who made him trip and fall, but the LORD sees and hears and is displeased by this cruel and mocking behaviour, as He is kind, even to the unthankful and the evil. So this behaviour is tempting God to reward the one doing it with what he deserves, and someone who fears God does not tempt God to punish them. So again we see that the fear of God...
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