Exodus 19:4 You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Eagles are the most powerful birds on earth. They have extremely powerful vision which are designed for long-distance focus with colour vision and high resolution clarity. An eagle’s talons are its...
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30 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 6
1 Samuel 17:34-35 David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck...
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29 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 5
Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. The Sperm-Whales are the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator of the marine mammal species. The oily waxy substance called spermaceti is an oil sac...
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28 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 4
1 Kings 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. Ravens are both predators and scavengers and they eat just about anything. They eat road-kills and the flesh of dead animals. Their diet includes mice, lizards, small birds, snakes,...
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27 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 3
Daniel 6:21-22 Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! My God sent his angel, and He shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me. Lions earn their moniker as king of the beasts by their efficiency in hunting their prey. Lions are ferocious cats that can eat up to 40kg of meat...
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26 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 2
Exodus 23:28 I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. Hornets are nearly five times the size of an European bee. Their sheer size and power means that one giant hornet can kill roughly 40 bees in a minute. Hornets are called “gentle-giants”...
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25 June 2021 – Pets & Predators – Part 1
Genesis 8:11 The dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf!. The logo of the World Peace Organisation is a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. Over the centuries many different cultures, countries and communities have developed peace symbols with a turtledove to communicate...
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24 June 2021 – Physiology of Love – Part 7
Colossians 3:14 “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Skeletal muscles are attached to bones by tendons and they produce all the movements of body parts. These muscles enable humans to move, perform daily activities and maintain body posture and balance. Skeletal muscles are known as...
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23 June 2021 – Physiology of Love – Part 6
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. The hardest working muscle is the heart. It pumps out 71 grams of blood at every...
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22 June 2021 – Physiology of Love – Part 5
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Love of the soul is discretely different to the love of the mind and the heart. While Mind-love connection is conditional, contingent and...