What Does the Disappearance of the World's Bee Have to Do with Me?
BEES
POLLINATE OVER 1/3 OF THE ENTIRE WORLD’S CROPS
HONEY
BEES POLLINATE ABOUT 90 DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES
SUCH
AS:
APPLES
ALMONDS
AVOCODOS
MELONS
PEACHES
BLUEBERRIES
CHERRIES
STRAWBERRIES
SOYBEANS
BROCCOLI
CELERY
KIWI
CUCUMBERS
SQUASH
CITRUS
FRUITS
AND
MANY OTHERS
BEES
POLLINATE CROPS & PRODUCE HONEY ALL TO AID MAN
But, in
spite of their importance to mankind bees are actually hated – and quite
literally despised by many people.
Think
about it…
What
usually happens when a bee flies around you or someone near you?
Most likely you begin to swat at it or try to run from it and many times
may even kill the bee for fear of being stung.
Most often than not most of us view bees as a nuisance.
Despite
the countless contributions that they make to mankind and our existence they are
considered as nothing more than hated pests by most.
Now
with that said…
I want
to bring your attention to a comparison between the BEE and the HEBREW nation (known
by most today as the Jewish nation).
·
A BEE COLONY
OPERATES IN A WAY THAT THE NATION OF ISRAEL SHOULD OPERATE – WITH COMPLETE
UNITY. {ONE MIND / ONE PURPOSE /
ONE QUEEN}
·
EACH BEE HAS A
SPECIFIC FUNCTION – JUST AS EACH ISRAELITE SHOULD ATTEND TO THE STRENGTHS
& TALENTS YAHWEH HAS GIVEN THEM TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THEIR COMMUNITY
·
BEES DO NOT
DEVIATE FROM THEIR TASK {SOME COLLECT POLLEN / SOME ARE BUSY WITH THE
PURIFICATION OF HONEY / WHILE STILL OTHERS ATTEND TO THE NEEDS OF THE QUEEN /
OTHER BEES ACTUALLY STAND GUARD OVER THE COLONY}
·
EACH BEE SHOWS
UNUSUAL RESPECT FOR THE QUEEN – AS A MATTER OF FACT THEY NEVER STEP IN FRONT
OF HER
·
BEES ARE
METICOULOUS WITH THEIR CLEANLINESS
·
NO WASTE IS
PERMITTED IN THE HIVE
·
THEY STAY
TOGETHER IN LARGE SWARMS
Finally…
·
BOTH BEES AND
ISRAELITES HAVE A STINGER! J …WILL
USE IT IF THEY ARE THREATENED AND WILL LOOSE THEIR LIFE BECAUSE OF IT
SIDE
NOTE:
[We
humans à
Many times we use our tongue as a stinger by committing Lashon
Hara. When we are faced
with pressures we often put others down in an effort to elevate our own
importance – even though we don’t actually loose our own lives.
The tongue is as deadly & every bit as sharp as a bee’s stinger!]
[King
David said in order to live a long life – we should guard our tongue from
evil]
Psa
34:13 Keep your
tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.
[Book of
Proverbs tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue]
Pro
18:21 Death and
life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its
fruit.
NOW
BACK TO OUR COMPARISON…
Despite
the countless contributions to mankind by the Jewish people they too as a nation
share this “hated” similarity with the bees.
Man’s
hatred for the Jewish people is often suppressed and/or hidden away.
But their true feelings ultimately surface and are manifest through
various types of anti-Semitic thoughts and behaviors.
For
instance…
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Jews are
frequently blamed by some for all of the entire world’s problems
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Statistics have
shown that 1 out of 4 people alive today believe that the Jews are responsible
for the events on 911
I’d
like to share an example of this with you…
If you
have a computer or have access to one when you go home.
If your operating system includes WORD – open WORD and then start a new
document. In the tool bar click on
font and scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list - until you come to a
font named: Wingdings 1.
Next change the font size to 48.
Then type in the letters (in all CAPS) NYC
and you will see for yourself an example of this hidden/suppressed hatred for
the Jewish people.
This
is what you will see…
NYC
The
Microsoft software that contains this font design was first developed and sold
by Bill Gates in the early 90’s.
It
is my understanding that the Anti-Defamation League ruled in this case and found
that there was absolutely
NO
ill will or anti-Semitic nature to this –
Dismissing
the whole thing!
I want
to show you one more example and then we’ll move on and get back to the bees.
From
what I gather during the 1st week after 911 a rumor began circulating
that one of the planes that hit the towers had the following number on its wing:
Q33NY
If you
type in that sequence of letters and numbers in all CAPS using the Wingdings
1 font with letter size #48
this is what you will see:
Q33NY
…Just
one more very sad example of the hidden hatred against our brother Y’hudah.
But
let’s get back to the Bee for now…
I want
to start with what happened at the end of last winter…
At the
end of last winter farmers expected to find the usual handful of dead bees (a
certain number of dead bees are always expected & is actually considered
normal) – however, they were shocked to find only the queen left with a few
lazy worker bees. The rest of the
hives were deserted and there was NO evidence of any dead bees – anywhere!
Here
is what we know…
·
OVER 250
MILLION BEES IN THE US ALONE ARE MISSING COVERING AT LEAST 35 STATES
·
THE WEST COAST
REPORTED LOSSES OF OVER 60% OF ITS COMMERCIAL BEE POPULATION
·
THE EAST COAST
REPORTED LOSSES OF
OVER
70% OF ITS COMMERCIAL BEE POPULATION
·
OTHER COUNTRIES
ARE REPORTING
SIMILAR
LOSSES.
GERMANY
POLAND
SWITZERLAND
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
ITALY
GREECE
CANADA
BRAZIL
BREAT
BRITIAN
GUATEMALA
TAIWAN
Many of
you may already be familiar with the term being used to describe what has
happened to the bee colonies. But
for any of you who may not know it has been given the name Colony Collapse
Disorder or CCD. This type of
collapse has happened in the past but never in the numbers that are happening
now.
You may
be thinking well…”big deal” why is this important to us?
And why on earth are we talking about this here today?
The
reason that we must be concerned about this is because…
NO BEES =
NO
POLLINATION
NO MORE PLANTS
NO MORE ANIMALS
NO MORE MAN
ALBERT
EINSTEIN ACTUALLY SAID:
“If
the bees disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have 4
years of life left”
This
great loss in the world’s bee population
is very
important to all of us and we should be very concerned because over 1/3 of
the world’s food supply depends on Honey Bees for pollination.
Look
at the following verse:
Act
11:28 One of them
named Agabus stood up and began to
indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the
world. And this took place in the reign
of Claudius.
In Bill
Cloud’s 2007 Spring/Summer Newsletter he said the following about that verse (Acts 11:28)
in regards to the vanishing bee populations…
“In
the days when the earliest believers were taking the message of the Messiah to a
largely secular world, the Spirit of God revealed that, in the midst of their
efforts, and perhaps to underscore their message, a global famine was coming and
that they should make preparations to endure it. Two thousand years later, that same Messianic message is
going forth, perhaps as never before, and to an equally secular world.
Furthermore, I believe that the Spirit is once again forewarning His
people of an approaching famine. This
famine, however, will be far more grievous than the one spoken of in Acts 11.
The book of Revelation describes it this way:”
Rev
6:5 When He
broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying,
"Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it
had a pair of scales in his hand.
Rev
6:6 And I heard something
like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart
of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not
damage the oil and the wine."
Some of
you may remember that Wade did a teaching a while back on this.
Wade explained to us that when verse 6 says “and do not damage the oil
and the wine” it is very important to know because just like grains, olive
trees and grape vines are NOT dependant upon bees for pollination.
The oil
(from olive trees) and the wine (from grape vines) will in no way be damaged by
the loss of the world’s bee populations.
Bill
Cloud continued in his newsletter article by saying “In short, Scripture
foretells of a time when a day’s wage will purchase no more than what one
person can consume in a day. In
other words, there is coming a famine so severe whereby most men will be unable
to afford enough food to feed their family”
Bill’s
article stated that in his opinion the
modern day sign of the coming famine is
the disappearance of the “humble honey bee.”
The
honeybee is well known among farmers as “nature’s workhorse” and according
to Zack Browning, former Vice President of the American Beekeeping Federation, “every
third bite we consume in our diet is dependant upon a honey bee to pollinate
that food.”
The
economic worth of the honeybee
in
the US alone is valued at
more
than $14 BILLION!!!
Think
about this…
In
addition to food plants, bees also pollinate many flowering plants that are
vital to the
eco-system
–
Which
in turn affects other species that are vital to the food chain.
Actually,
Revelation 6:5-6 that we looked at a little while ago is not the only place in
scripture that foretells of a literal global famine in the last days.
Some
other verses hint at the coming famine as well…
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The story of Joseph in the book of Exodus – as you know gives us a very
prophetic picture of the end times – and is a perfect example to look at with
regards to a future worldwide famine.
Remember
it was during a 7 yr famine that Joseph’s role in Yahweh’s plan is
brought to light. It’s very
doubtful that his brothers would have ever journeyed down into Egypt -ultimately
being reunited with their lost brother had there not been a famine.
Yahweh’s
purposes were accomplished because of a global famine!
à Another example found in scripture is the story of
Elijah.
Scripture teaches us that the spirit of Elijah will be
present before “the great and dreadful day of the LORD” (Mal 4:5) (which
is to say, of course at the end of days).
If you’ll remember Elijah’s ministry took place mostly
during a famine. It was because of
this famine and through Elijah’s obedience that Yahweh’s purpose to bring
Israel to repentance was once again accomplished.
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Also note that
the famine that took place in the days of Elijah lasted for 3 ½ years
(Luke 4:25)!
From these examples in Scripture it seems pretty clear to
me that we are going to follow the pattern of our ancestors.
I really believe that the Father is going to use a severe worldwide
famine – once again - to try and get Israel’s attention in one last and
final attempt to bring us to a place of true and complete repentance.
Now
think about this…
Could it be possible that the coming lack of physical food
will actually show the world that all of humanity is in need of something far
much greater…?
1Co
15:46 However, the
spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
I cannot count the times that I can remember hearing Brad
Scott teach us - over and over - that Yahweh always uses the natural/physical
world around us to teach us spiritual things.
In 1Co 15:46 above
Paul is teaching the same thing – that spiritual truth
is revealed through natural things and that the natural or physical things
always come first!
Maybe
Yahweh is going to use the coming literal famine to teach us about a growing
spiritual famine already present in the world right now.
I’m
convinced that natural happenings - like the ongoing bee collapse shadows
related spiritual events.
In
scripture the Father gives us our “daily bread” to meet our physical needs
so that He can amplify our very great and serious need for spiritual bread.
Deu
8:3 "He
humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you
did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand
that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds
out of the mouth of the LORD.
In
this verse Moses is telling us that physical bread shows that we are in need of
spiritual bread as well.
I’m absolutely convinced that the prophecies that speak
of physical famine are set in place to teach us also about the spiritual famine
that is fast approaching us based on the words of the prophets and the patterns
of our forefathers.
I
want to read you one more very important thing from Bill Cloud’s 2007
Newsletter regarding the disappearing bees…
Bill said…“If the vanishing bees are an indication of
an approaching famine, what is their connection to the spiritual famine?
The answer may lie in the actual Hebrew word for “bee” - to put it another way, physical bees are a picture of the Word.
דבורה
d’vorah
5
+ 200 + 6 + 2 + 4 = 217 reduce …
2
+ 1 + 7 = 10 à
CONFIDENCE IN GOD
The
root of this word is
רבד d’var
The
literal meaning of which is “word”
Is their ongoing disappearance an indication that, soon,
many people will be unable to find the Word of God?
Consider
what the LORD said through the prophet Amos”…
Amo 8:11 "Behold,
days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on
the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing
the words of the LORD.
Amo 8:12 "People will stagger
from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to
seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.
“Notice
that the prophecy says the famine will be for “hearing” the Word, not that
the Word of the LORD will disappear. It
just seems that most people will not be able to find it.”
“In
some ways, this is really already happening.
If you look closely and observe what is being presented as the “Word of
God” at large in Christianity and compare it to the Scriptures, you will find
that the true Word has been mingled with man’s opinion, cultural trends and,
in some cases, wishful thinking. It
seems to me that men have done just what we were warned not to do.
We have added to and taken away from the Word.
In many cases, this is done so that ministries might be more attractive
to the masses and, consequently, be more financially productive.”
“In
my opinion, many people are already finding it hard to hear the true Word of
God. Many are hearing nothing more than the “traditions of
men.”
I
think that we’d all have to agree with Bill’s opinion here - I know that I
sure do.
One
thing that I want to go back and discuss is the fact that the missing bees have
just vanished without even so much as a trace.
There
are simply no reports of any dead bees lying about on the ground near any of the
abandoned colonies. They’re just
GONE!
Adding
to this mystery is the fact that other wild bees would normally raid and even
take over the abandoned hives and pollen left behind when a colony dies – but
now they refuse to go anywhere near these abandoned hives!
Almost as if the empty hives were somehow sacred to them.
This
obviously is a great unsolved mystery for the scientists of our day.
They are
continuously looking for answers to explain why this collapse is happening and
where the missing bees are.
They’ve
looked at many various theories in an effort to explain the current Colony
Collapse such as:
GLOBAL
WARMING
WEAKENED
IMMUNE SYSTEMS
PARASITES
TOXINS
CHEMICALS
MITES
MASSIVE
AMTS OF RADIAITON RELEASED INTO THE AIR BY CELL PHONES
And
even a
PLOT
BY BEN LADEN J
One by
one each of these theories have been disproved and eliminated as a possible
cause for the current CCD.
The
world’s scientists have actually “run out” of theories.
They truly must be horrified -because I know that they completely know
and understand the ramifications of their failure to explain & ultimately
find a cure for CCD.
No one
can explain why the bees are dead even though they’ve supposedly looked all
over for answers. That is except
for the 1 place that has all the answers…
THE TORAH!!!
Now I
want to finish up by sharing something amazing that I learned about on the
Redemption 5768.com website…
You may
or may not be aware that there is a non-biblical book called the Perek
Shira (pronounced like–>
“Peer-wreck Sheerah”).
I personally had never heard of it until I listened to a teaching on the
website mentioned above.
There is
some debate as to whether King David wrote the book alone or if he and his son
King Solomon wrote the book together. But,
at any rate this gives us a general idea of when the book was written and who
most likely wrote it as well.
I was
actually able to download a free copy and have it saved on a disc if any of you
would like a copy just let me know. I
also brought about 10 copies for any of you that don’t have access to a
computer. Again just see me later
and I’ll do my best to get one in your hands.
Interestingly
in the Perek Shira bees are not mentioned despite their importance & their
connection to the nation of Israel.
But
there is a bird mentioned - the Rakhim Bird.
This is important because this particular type and species of bird is
known as a “bee-eater.”
This
entire species of bird happens to be among some of the world’s most beautiful
birds. They are characterized by
rich colors, down turned bills and have slender graceful bodies.
The
actual verse from the Perek Shira that the Rakhim Bird is said to sing is based
on/from Zech 10:8…
Zec
10:8 "I
will whistle for them to gather them together, For I have redeemed them; And
they will be as numerous as they were before.
Perek Shira reads…
THE BEE-EATER SAYS: “I will
whistle to them and gather them, for I have redeemed them, and they shall
multiply as they multiplied.” (Zechariah
10:8)
Let’s
look at Zech 10:8 a little closer…
Zec
10:8
"I will whistle8319 for them to gather6908
them together, For I have redeemed6299
them; And they will be as numerous7235a
as they were before.
The
Hebrew word for “I will whistle” is Strong’s word #8319 and
is the primitive root word “shaw-rak.”
Here I have it 1st from Strong’s and then also from Brown
Driver Briggs…
Strong’s…
H8319
שׁרק
shâraq
shaw-rak'
A
primitive root; properly to be shrill, that is, to whistle
or hiss (as a call or in scorn): - hiss.
Brown
Driver Briggs…
H8319
שׁרק
shâraq
1) to hiss, whistle, pipe
1a) (Qal) to hiss (as a signal)
Again…
The
original Hebrew word for “I will whistle”
is Strong's #H8319 – “Shaw-rak.”
The
sages teach that this describes the sound of only one creature…because this is
actually the sound that only the bee-eater bird makes.
This
bird is well known for its
“schrak
– rak” sound!!
The
sages teach that this associates the bee-eater bird and his “schrak – rak”
sound with our final redemption mentioned in Zech
10:8 and in the Perek
Shira.
The only
verse in the Perek Shira pertaining to our redemption is by the Bee-eating bird.
The
Gematria of this entire verse in the Perek Shira totals 2882.
Amazingly,
it was in the year 2882 that THE
1st KING to rule – (King Saul) was appointed over
Israel.
The
sages teach that this verse in the Perek Shira about the bee-eater bird connects
those of us in the last generation with THE LAST
KING to rule over Israel…
THE
MOSCHIACH – OUR REDEEMER…
YESHUA
The
Rakhim Bird is also mentioned in the Talmud (tractate (Chulen)
63A) – In which
the Rebbe Yehuda confirms that “the Rakhim bird is the one who makes the
“schrak – rak” sound.”
The
Rebbe Yochanan asks the question ”why is it called the Rakhim?”…and then
answers himself by saying “For when it comes it is a sign – the Rakhim
– mercy is coming to the world.”
“Schrak
– rak” is the sound of the very unusual and distinctive piping whistle the
Rakhim bird makes as it flies.
(remember
this fact)
Another
Rebbe in the Talmud states that… “the Rakhim – this bee-eater bird will be
sitting on the ground & making this “schrak-rak” whistling sound
and then MOSCHIACH will come.”
What
makes his statement so critical for us in light of the mass disappearance of the
world’s bees is that he states that this bird will be sitting on the ground
making this sound just before the return of the Moschiach.
To sit on the ground
and make this sound is not natural for this bird.
Bee-eaters
are known to catch honeybees by their wings as they fly by them in flight.
The bee is then taken by the bird back to its perch, is violently shaken
and then pounded and rubbed on a hard surface in order to get the bee’s
stinger out. Once the stinger is
out the bird eats the bee while seated upon his perch – NOT ON THE GROUND.
It’s
important to note that in nature - once a honeybee has landed on the ground
(alive or dead) the Rakhim bird simply ignores it - even if it’s in plain site
the bird will show no interest in it.
This bird is simply
programmed to only catch the bees “on the wing” while in flight.
Therefore,
if you were to see a Rakhim bird eating bees and whistling from its perch –
this would be the NORMAL way of nature – the way Yahweh created and
intended this creature to behave.
But
according to the sages – when you see
these birds sitting on the ground eating bees and making the “schrak-rak”
whistling sound it will be contrary to nature – which can only happen
by the hand of Yahweh.
This
according to Jewish tradition will be a sign that Moschiach is coming!
Scientists
have paid no attention or given any thought to the idea that the bee-eating
birds may have been eliminating the dead bees from our sight.
They’ve most likely never heard of the Perek Shira or the
“schrak-rak” whistling sound of the Rakhim bird and/or the promise of our
redemption in Zec 10:8.
·
Since the hives
are empty when the farmers find them the bees had to have died outside of the
hives or their bodies would still be present within the hive.
·
Since there are
no obvious dead bodies many who know of the Perek Shira and Zech 10:8
- believe that the bees must have been eaten by thousands of Rakhim birds.
Now
think about this question…