Jesus often used parables when speaking to the crowds to describe a concept and then later explained the parables meaning to the apostles. We have been going thru an experience over the last few years that fit perfectly for a parable – the parable of the ant.
The bible mentions the ant in Prov6:6-8 in how diligent and wise it is. It doesn’t slack off but works consistently store up food and to grow its colony.
RSV Proverbs 6:6-8
6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer or ruler, 8 she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
We have been battling an ant invasion in the house for several years. The worst year of the invasion was last year when every day the army of ants would emerge from the walls from multiple places around the house.
How the ants got to the various points along the wall was a feat in insect tunneling engineering itself. The house should be an impregnable fortress against any insect attack since the location of attack was a concrete earth shelter house…..
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