1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,040 And Genesis 1, 1, that's a favorite text, isn't it? 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:03,540 Yes. 3 00:00:03,540 --> 00:00:04,040 All right. 4 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,400 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 5 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,240 And if we don't understand that, then we really 6 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 are going to have a hard time understanding 7 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,040 the rest of the Bible. 8 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,400 Or believing the rest of the Bible. 9 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:17,920 Right. 10 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:18,420 Right. 11 00:00:18,420 --> 00:00:22,600 And here's the text that was read so well. 12 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,880 It says, but ask the animals, and they will teach you. 13 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,200 Or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you. 14 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,320 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. 15 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,760 Or let the fish in the sea inform you. 16 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,680 Which of all of these things does not know the hand 17 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,720 of the Lord has done this? 18 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,720 In His hand is the life of every creature 19 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,920 and the breath of all mankind. 20 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,240 Isn't that awesome? 21 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,280 All of nature, all of nature. 22 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,400 And the universe speaks to Him, doesn't it? 23 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,640 Yes. 24 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,480 Now, I love that. 25 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,760 And that's a picture of our solar system. 26 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,760 The solar system is absolutely amazing. 27 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,360 And I brought a little model right here. 28 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,400 I wonder if we have some of our younger children that 29 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,840 could come up and hold our model of our solar system. 30 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:12,560 Because we're going to talk a little bit 31 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,800 about the solar system. 32 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,920 We happen to live in the solar system. 33 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,640 And we live on a very, don't we? 34 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,800 We don't have any children? 35 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:20,880 What happened to our kids? 36 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Or we could use a couple of adults. 37 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,200 OK. 38 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,960 Did you come to participate today? 39 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:30,440 I need some help to hold this. 40 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:31,320 Here we go. 41 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,200 Yeah, come on up. 42 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:32,960 Yeah, there you go. 43 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:34,040 Thank you very much. 44 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:34,840 Yeah, there we go. 45 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:35,360 Thank you. 46 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:35,960 I'll get out of the way. 47 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:36,600 All right. 48 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,800 So we have a model right here. 49 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:38,960 Hang onto that. 50 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:40,080 Here we go. 51 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,360 And walk over this way. 52 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,120 And here we go. 53 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,360 You can help me with this. 54 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,520 Here, you can hang onto this part right here. 55 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,240 And here, why don't you take the end right here 56 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,920 and stretch it on out. 57 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:50,680 There you go. 58 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,200 And you stretch it on out. 59 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:52,600 There you go. 60 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,320 Turn around so everybody can see you as well. 61 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,200 OK, there. 62 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,480 Yeah, but put the model in front of you so we won't block it. 63 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:00,520 There we go. 64 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:00,920 Cool. 65 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:01,400 Oh, yeah. 66 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:01,920 Here, help me. 67 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:02,440 Help me. 68 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,800 And pick those up so it doesn't drag on the ground. 69 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,400 OK. 70 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,280 You got that? 71 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,720 Yeah, hold that up. 72 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:10,480 That's interesting. 73 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,840 And stretch it out because it's really, really long. 74 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:13,880 It's really, really long. 75 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,480 And this is our golf ball model of the sun. 76 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,600 Yeah, stretch it on out. 77 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,320 There, stretch it. 78 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:18,840 Come on. 79 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,080 It gets longer and longer. 80 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,600 So this is planet Earth. 81 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,040 If planet Earth happens to be a golf ball size, 82 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,520 then our sun is that size. 83 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,840 Isn't that amazing? 84 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,560 Does that blow you away? 85 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:30,920 It blows me away. 86 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:34,240 And we could take 109 planet Earths. 87 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,720 It could go all the way across the diameter of our sun. 88 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,520 109 planet Earths. 89 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,000 Can you imagine that? 90 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,640 That's really quite amazing. 91 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:45,520 And we're not very close to the sun. 92 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,680 Otherwise, we would burn up. 93 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,880 We would vaporize. 94 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,480 We're not too far away from the sun. 95 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:50,800 Otherwise, we'd be too cold. 96 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,000 And we couldn't have life on planet Earth. 97 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,680 But we're about 93 million miles away from our sun. 98 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:58,800 Isn't that amazing? 99 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,360 It's just amazing to me. 100 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,800 Now, that distance is called a unit. 101 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,680 It's an astronomical unit from the sun to the Earth. 102 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,280 That's amazing to me. 103 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,680 But that's just part of our solar system. 104 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:13,480 And let's see. 105 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,520 What you can do is go ahead and just drop the Earth. 106 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,360 I mean, drop the sun. 107 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:18,880 There you go. 108 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,360 It won't hurt the carpet. 109 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:20,860 Thank you. 110 00:03:20,860 --> 00:03:22,560 Thank you for helping me hold that. 111 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,480 Thank you very much. 112 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,640 There you go. 113 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:29,760 So that happens to be part of our solar system. 114 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:36,120 And we actually have a probe that was called Voyager 1. 115 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,520 And in September 5, in 1977, Voyager 1 116 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,240 was launched from Florida. 117 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,480 And it was going to take lots and lots of pictures 118 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,160 of our solar system. 119 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,120 And it did. 120 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,280 And in fact, you can go to NASA, and you can actually 121 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,080 see all of those wonderful, wonderful pictures. 122 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:00,080 And it took 35 years, 35 years traveling 123 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,160 at about 38 kilometers per hour in order 124 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,080 to get to the very edge of our solar system, 125 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,960 right to the edge what we call interstellar space. 126 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,920 What's an amazing thing? 127 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:18,880 And if Voyager is still going, which is amazing, 128 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,400 but if it went all the way around the Milky Way galaxy, 129 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,000 it would take 500 years in order to go all the way 130 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,840 around our galaxy. 131 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,560 Isn't that quite amazing? 132 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:31,880 And we're just one galaxy. 133 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:32,560 We're the what? 134 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,640 What galaxy are we in? 135 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,120 The Milky Way galaxy. 136 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,080 That is so cool. 137 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:38,920 OK. 138 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,400 Oh, you got the button? 139 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,520 The book. 140 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,280 Oh, here we go. 141 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,120 That's right. 142 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,760 Now, the text that we had. 143 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,720 I'd rather you do it. 144 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:48,200 What's that? 145 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,200 I'd rather you do it. 146 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,040 You'd rather me do it? 147 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:50,520 Yeah. 148 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,280 OK. 149 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:52,160 Am I holding it right? 150 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,800 No. 151 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:54,840 Upside down. 152 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,000 Yeah, now you're holding it right. 153 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:56,480 All right. 154 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,320 Now, the text that was read this morning 155 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,600 came from God's book, right? 156 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,120 God's first book. 157 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,200 But there is another book. 158 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,760 What's the other book? 159 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,080 What's God's other book? 160 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,400 What is it? 161 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,760 It's nature, isn't it? 162 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,040 So let's just take a look at nature today, shall we? 163 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:16,840 And let's open it. 164 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:18,000 Are you ready? 165 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,080 OK, let's check this out. 166 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,240 Whoa, what is all of that? 167 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,520 It's butterflies. 168 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,360 Those are butterflies. 169 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,080 Yes. 170 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:27,720 That's amazing. 171 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,080 Yeah, we went to Branson, Missouri. 172 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,520 And we went to a, it was called Butterfly Palace 173 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:34,440 and Rainforest. 174 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,000 And these are some pictures that we took there. 175 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,840 The one right here, is that a butterfly? 176 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:45,120 Is it a moth? 177 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,160 Yes, that's a moth. 178 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,920 And how do you know it's a moth? 179 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,040 Oh, that's a moth. 180 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,880 That's, yeah, that's the, there's other things about it 181 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:54,400 as well. 182 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,160 But the most obvious is, it's fuzzy right here. 183 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,840 I took that on my porch. 184 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:04,040 So a lot of times, we think moths are boring and dull 185 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,320 and just brown or whatever. 186 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,720 But they're not. 187 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,560 What's another thing? 188 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:08,280 You just said it. 189 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,120 Yes, they rest mainly with their wings out. 190 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,280 And a butterfly usually hasn't folded up, 191 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:19,320 unless the butterfly, it opens them sometimes 192 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,240 to get the warmth so that they can fly. 193 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,600 It doesn't even look, it looks like a toy to me. 194 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:24,440 Isn't that interesting? 195 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,520 The colors are fantastic. 196 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:27,080 Yes. 197 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,080 And then you've got one up there. 198 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,080 Some people think if you touch a butterfly and you take, 199 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,200 and the powder comes off, that they won't be able to fly. 200 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,200 But that's not true. 201 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,000 And here's one. 202 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,080 And it's made that way. 203 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,240 It's not, somebody didn't scrape it off, but he's clear. 204 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,120 And then they gave us these little tubes. 205 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,240 And they could drink the sugar water. 206 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,200 And they put their proboscis down in there. 207 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:51,920 And they suck it up like a straw. 208 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,240 Now, some people study birds, right? 209 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,640 And there are other people study butterflies. 210 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,000 Now, have you ever heard of bird banding? 211 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,720 Where they will put a band around the leg of a bird, 212 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,040 and that way they can track it if it's ever caught or whatever. 213 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,720 Well, they actually band butterflies. 214 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,400 They don't call it banding butterflies. 215 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:13,520 But they put little tags on one of the scales. 216 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,160 Can you imagine that on the wings of those? 217 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,200 I think that's interesting. 218 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,120 OK. 219 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,360 You want to tell them about this? 220 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,040 Yeah. 221 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,120 That looks like the alphabet and some numbers. 222 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,680 Well, where did you find those? 223 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,840 This was at the place that we went to Butterfly Palace. 224 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,560 And this was a poster. 225 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:34,880 And then they had them individual. 226 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,120 But this was a poster. 227 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,160 And this man discovered that he saw a couple butterflies. 228 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,640 And it looked like they had different numbers or letters 229 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:43,140 on them. 230 00:07:43,140 --> 00:07:47,160 So he spent 25 years of his life traveling the world, 231 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,640 finding butterflies so he could find the full alphabet in 1 232 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:52,760 to 9. 233 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:53,600 That is amazing. 234 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:54,880 Which is pretty wild. 235 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,200 Can you imagine that? 236 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:56,920 Yeah. 237 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,320 Wow. 238 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,680 That's beautiful. 239 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,920 So this is the life cycle of a butterfly. 240 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,400 And a moth is very similar. 241 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,880 There's a little bit of difference. 242 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,600 But it's pretty similar. 243 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,600 So you start out. 244 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,320 It starts out the butterfly will lay an egg on a leaf, 245 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:14,720 usually on a leaf. 246 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,760 And it'll hatch out. 247 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,000 And it'll become a caterpillar. 248 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,480 And when it's a caterpillar, that's 249 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,640 when it eats the most and it grows the fastest. 250 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:22,960 So you'll see them. 251 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,360 And they're chewing on the leaves. 252 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,480 They can chew. 253 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,120 And then a butterfly turns into a chrysalis. 254 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,040 And a moth turns into a cocoon. 255 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,960 So does anyone know the difference between the two? 256 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:36,600 OK. 257 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,360 Well, a cocoon with a moth, they spin their cocoon out 258 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,160 of like a silk material. 259 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:48,000 And a chrysalis is actually the skin of the caterpillar. 260 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 It comes off. 261 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And it hardens around them. 262 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 And so that's the difference between the two. 263 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,840 And then they'll come out as the adult. 264 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,760 And their wings are wet. 265 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,120 And then they have to dry. 266 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,600 And then they can fly away. 267 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,880 But when they're in the chrysalis or the cocoon, 268 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,440 they turn into liquid. 269 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,720 Not all of them, but I mean, not their whole body. 270 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,600 Most of their body turns into a liquid. 271 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,920 So it's kind of a miraculous, miraculous way to do it. 272 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,640 Did you want to show them that? 273 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:19,440 I've got a. 274 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,280 Yeah, we have a little model kind of one. 275 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,520 What is that? 276 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,600 That's a caterpillar. 277 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,360 That's a caterpillar. 278 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:24,720 Yes. 279 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,800 And what's it going to be? 280 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,400 It's going to be a beautiful butterfly. 281 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,040 It's going to be a beautiful butterfly. 282 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,080 And see what happens. 283 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,800 What is that called when that happens? 284 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,960 They have a complete metamorphosis. 285 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,800 So if you have three or more complete changes 286 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,560 from babyhood to adulthood, it's complete metamorphosis. 287 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:44,760 So since he went from an egg, and he 288 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,880 went to four different stages, and he looks different 289 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,280 in each of those stages, it's a complete metamorphosis. 290 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,120 And there it is. 291 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:50,800 Yeah. 292 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,320 Wow. 293 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,000 And as soon as those wings, the liquid inside of the wings 294 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,760 harden, then they'll be stiff and it can fly away. 295 00:09:58,760 --> 00:09:59,880 Yes. 296 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,640 And when they fly, how do they fly? 297 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,160 They fly, they flutter by. 298 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,040 Yeah, they just kind of, the wind sometimes carries them. 299 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,840 And that's so that that's kind of one of their defenses 300 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,720 so that the animals don't know which direction 301 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,560 they're going to catch them. 302 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:15,200 That's neat. 303 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:15,680 Wow. 304 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,760 Do we go through a metamorphosis? 305 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:19,720 Kind of, yeah. 306 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,240 But it's not a complete metamorphosis. 307 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,480 I'd like to be a butterfly. 308 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,120 Yes. 309 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,560 OK, on this side, you have the butterfly. 310 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:28,920 You can see the difference. 311 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,200 The antenna are thinner, which is the most obvious. 312 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,320 And then this one over here has a feathery look. 313 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,920 But this is, this kind of blew me away when I saw this. 314 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,280 Oh, we can't see the numbers very well. 315 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:48,080 In the world, there are 17,550 different kinds of butterflies. 316 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:48,680 Wow. 317 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,640 In the US, we have 750, OK, which is pretty wild. 318 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,360 But this next one's going to really be. 319 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:56,360 That is amazing. 320 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,040 Watch this one, though. 321 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:03,600 Moths, there's 160,000 different kinds of moths in the world 322 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,600 and 11,000 in the United States. 323 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:06,200 That's amazing. 324 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,680 I wonder how long it'd take you to collect those. 325 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:10,200 Yeah, or to count them. 326 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,280 I mean, I don't know how long it took them to do that. 327 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,800 But that's pretty wild. 328 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,280 All of God's creation. 329 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,600 So what are butterflies good for? 330 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:22,480 Pollination, yes. 331 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,960 So what are moths good for? 332 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,800 Say pollination, yes. 333 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,320 They take the second and third shift. 334 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,920 The butterflies are during the day and moths are at night. 335 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,560 Some of them eat holes in your clothes. 336 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:34,560 Yes, yes. 337 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:35,880 Yeah, so they're good for that. 338 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,480 And they're not good for anything. 339 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:38,000 Yeah. 340 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,240 I wouldn't go that far. 341 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,880 But anyway, yeah. 342 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,800 So this is the one on top is going 343 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,040 to be turned into a what, chrysalis or a little 344 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,080 turn into a what chrysalis or a cocoon? 345 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,080 What chrysalis? 346 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,400 Yes, it's going to turn into a chrysalis. 347 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,560 So this right here is your cocoon. 348 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,760 You can see they get a like the silk is they tie it on there. 349 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,920 But he's got something that comes out of him 350 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,960 that makes him stick. 351 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,560 And then this is you can't see it very well. 352 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,080 But that's a very shiny gold color. 353 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:17,600 So they come in all different colors. 354 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,360 Some of them are even clear. 355 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,760 Yeah, that's a beautiful one. 356 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,200 I've seen one of the gold ones. 357 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,800 Yeah, they had them at that place. 358 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:28,000 If you've ever been to the Tennessee Aquarium, 359 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,200 have you ever been to the Butterfly House? 360 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,920 Yeah, that is beautiful. 361 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,120 They have all different colored chrysalis in there as well. 362 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,680 You can look at. 363 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,200 Does anyone know what this is? 364 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,440 It's a caterpillar, right? 365 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,000 But what's hanging off of them? 366 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:47,960 Parasites. 367 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:55,280 This is how God has even in sin, he has made nature work together. 368 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,720 My trees in the backyard were all getting eaten down. 369 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,320 I didn't have any leaves on them. 370 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,400 And I saw all these little guys hanging around. 371 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,880 And I decided to take a picture of them. 372 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,120 So then I went inside and I googled what it was. 373 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,080 And what it is is when my tree was being eaten, 374 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,840 they can send out a signal. 375 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:14,880 It's just automatically. 376 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:15,920 They don't think about it. 377 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:16,960 It just happens. 378 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,680 It can be a gas they send out. 379 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:22,960 It can be just the fluids inside are making a weird noise 380 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:23,960 or not running right. 381 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,400 Or it could be an electric impulse. 382 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,200 So my trees sent out a signal that it was in distress. 383 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:37,920 And this little thing was flying by and decided to help out. 384 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,240 So what can this thing do? 385 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,440 She can lay eggs. 386 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,440 So she needed somewhere to lay her eggs. 387 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,640 And so she found the caterpillar and she put them in. 388 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,840 And when she puts them in, she puts a virus in with them 389 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:51,920 as well. 390 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,680 So she can't fight off whatever's happening to her. 391 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,160 So she lays the eggs in there. 392 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,680 Then when they hatch out, the larva is in there 393 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:02,040 and it eats the insides out. 394 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,720 And then they chew their way out, make a cocoon, 395 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,040 and hang there till they're ready to hatch out and go out 396 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,440 into the world. 397 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:09,280 That's amazing. 398 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,520 That's pretty wild. 399 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:11,360 Yeah. 400 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,640 And there's other insects that do this as well. 401 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,560 You might see some on your tomato plants. 402 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:20,000 You get the little green caterpillars eating your things. 403 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,040 So sometimes you'll see those with the little white things 404 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,760 on them as well. 405 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,520 Oh, now this is interesting. 406 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:29,080 OK. 407 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,040 Tell me what's in this picture. 408 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,600 Is that a puzzle? 409 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,560 It's a camouflage. 410 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:35,560 Camouflage. 411 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:36,680 You're going to have to study that one. 412 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,080 Yeah, you have to look at this pretty good 413 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,880 and figure out what's in this picture. 414 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,080 I had a hard time finding this. 415 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:43,960 Yeah. 416 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,000 I don't know how long I did. 417 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,600 Does anybody see it? 418 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,480 It's an animal. 419 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,320 It's an animal. 420 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,480 How many of you have seen the animal? 421 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:52,040 Anybody? 422 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,040 Something to the left of the, this way? 423 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,360 No, it's on this side. 424 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:01,120 It's on the right. 425 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,240 You're right. 426 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:03,120 It's a giraffe. 427 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:03,920 It's a giraffe. 428 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,000 She did. 429 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:05,600 Oh, wonderful. 430 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,120 Yes, it's a giraffe. 431 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,160 Very good. 432 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,680 It's very camouflaged. 433 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:11,400 Yeah. 434 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:12,200 Very good. 435 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,320 Yeah, I think that's it. 436 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:13,960 Can you pick it out? 437 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,040 Did you shine your light? 438 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,720 Oh, I can shine my light. 439 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,880 It's right here is its head. 440 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,280 And there it goes down. 441 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,160 But he's pretty camouflaged. 442 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,800 I didn't realize that till I found this picture one day. 443 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,360 And I was like, that's pretty wild. 444 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,840 You don't think of giraffes being camouflaged. 445 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,320 Yeah. 446 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,680 If it was a movie. 447 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:38,520 That's amazing. 448 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:39,200 Shine the light. 449 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,680 Here's his head. 450 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,400 It's eyes right here, and it's horns. 451 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,320 And then it goes down. 452 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:45,880 Yeah. 453 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,760 Yeah. 454 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,200 Pretty wild. 455 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,160 But that's why they're spotted the way they are. 456 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,000 It's their camouflage. 457 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,280 And each of them, it's like their fingerprints. 458 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,040 No one has your same fingerprints. 459 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,840 No one has the same pattern as these guys. 460 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,800 And there are seven different types of giraffes. 461 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,360 If you go online and look at them, 462 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,480 there's actually one that's white. 463 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,760 But it's an anomaly. 464 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,640 They don't want to be white, because then they 465 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,480 can't hide very well. 466 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,760 They could hide in the snow. 467 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:15,560 Yeah. 468 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:16,920 Yeah, that wouldn't work. 469 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,960 I don't know if they could hide in snow. 470 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,240 I mean, they're a little tall. 471 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,320 Yes. 472 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,080 OK. 473 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,040 Oh, yes. 474 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,680 And we went to someplace where we could actually 475 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:28,520 feed the giraffes. 476 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,400 How many have ever fed a giraffe? 477 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Oh, yes. 478 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:31,920 Wonderful. 479 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:32,480 Lots of people. 480 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,560 You can do it at Chattanooga Zoo now as well. 481 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,560 Oh, you need us to move over. 482 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,160 Well. 483 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,080 You need to move over. 484 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,080 And they are so tame. 485 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,720 I mean, the ones that we fed were so tame. 486 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,560 And they're just so gentle when they take the food out 487 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,400 of your hand. 488 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,120 Yeah, they weren't aggressive at all or anything. 489 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:51,360 And they were just eating lettuce. 490 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,840 That's lettuce that we're feeding them. 491 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,440 So this is a giraffe. 492 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,040 And of course, you can see how long their neck is. 493 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,880 It's extremely long. 494 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:08,760 Some of them can be 11 or 12 feet long, just the neck part. 495 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,400 But they have the same number of vertebrae in their neck 496 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,520 as we do. 497 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,840 So this is. 498 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,120 Yeah, that's me. 499 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:15,800 That's him. 500 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,760 That's my neck. 501 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:17,360 Yeah. 502 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:19,600 And that's the neck of a giraffe. 503 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:20,440 And that's not it. 504 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:21,920 I mean, that's from the floor. 505 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,680 So that giraffe, he's still that much taller than him. 506 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,080 But if he had his body with him, he's huge. 507 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,160 And you actually have a real vertebrae of a giraffe. 508 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,200 It's coming in the mail today, actually. 509 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,360 So yeah, it's about 12 inches long. 510 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,880 So it's going to be pretty neat. 511 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,280 But anyway. 512 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,120 OK, so here you got the giraffe. 513 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:46,960 And he loves this kind of tree. 514 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,480 Does anybody know their favorite kind of tree? 515 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:51,960 Acacia, look at you. 516 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,800 Yeah, Acacia tree. 517 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:58,760 OK, so Acacia trees, a giraffe can eat up to 100 pounds 518 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,120 of food a day. 519 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,480 So that's a lot of leaves. 520 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,800 So if he comes after a tree and he eats 100 pounds of it, 521 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,320 that tree is going to be stripped. 522 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,960 So this is one line of defense that this tree has. 523 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,440 And that's these big thorns. 524 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,600 But there's actually birds that build their nest 525 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:17,960 between those thorns. 526 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,160 That's a pretty neat thing. 527 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,560 That'd be a good place for a nest. 528 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,280 It would be excellent unless a giraffe 529 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,440 wanted to lick your nest out. 530 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,120 Anyway, so a giraffe has a very long tongue. 531 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,640 Does anyone know how long it is? 532 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,640 It's 18 to 20 inches long. 533 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,120 And they can use it and wrap it around things. 534 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,600 And so he's got quite control of it. 535 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,120 And it's a dark color. 536 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:45,520 It's blue or purple. 537 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,000 Does anyone know why it's that color? 538 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 It's that color because they're so high up in the sky. 539 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,840 What's up there with them? 540 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,760 The sun. 541 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,560 They got their tongue out all the time trying to eat. 542 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,440 So they don't get sunburned if it's like this. 543 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,240 So God thought of everything with these guys. 544 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,400 Anyway, so he eats these acacia trees. 545 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,640 And once he gets down to a certain amount, 546 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:16,200 the acacia tree, not meaning to, just does it, 547 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,200 it will start tasting bitter. 548 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,440 And so that the giraffe won't want to eat there anymore. 549 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,360 And so that's its protection from the giraffe. 550 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:28,760 And all the trees around it, I think it's 50 yards 551 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,920 or something like that, about 50 yards around it, 552 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,560 all the acacia trees around, they start tasting bitter 553 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,060 because this tree signals them to taste bitter, 554 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:38,680 that there's giraffes coming by 555 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,640 and they're gonna eat all the trees. 556 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,640 So then they just move on. 557 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,840 But the other interesting thing is the adult leaves do that, 558 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:52,360 but the baby leaves are bitter until they become adult 559 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,800 so that they're not eaten at all. 560 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,240 Well, that's a real safeguard for the tree, isn't it? 561 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,080 But it's amazing that all the other trees 562 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,560 are gonna start tasting bitter 563 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,760 because they don't want to get wiped out, all those leaves. 564 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,600 Wow. 565 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,160 Yeah, yeah. 566 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,240 It's pretty neat. 567 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,840 Now, someone said that, I don't know if you drink coffee, 568 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,840 if you do, stop, but coffee is bitter. 569 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:15,680 Tea. 570 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:16,520 I'm sorry? 571 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,360 Tea. 572 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,180 Oh, it's tea, not coffee, I'm sorry. 573 00:20:18,180 --> 00:20:20,040 Okay, forget what I said about coffee. 574 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,280 Well, don't drink coffee either, 575 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,200 but it's tea that we were talking about. 576 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,040 Okay, it's tea. 577 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:24,880 Yes. 578 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,280 All right, I'm sorry, I got it confused. 579 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:31,280 But tea, the caffeinated tea is bitter naturally. 580 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,600 Yeah, like if you get tea and you don't get sweetened tea, 581 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,080 it's bitter, like black tea, those kinds of things. 582 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:39,920 They're bitter. 583 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,400 So you have to put some kind of a sweetener in there. 584 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:43,440 Yes, yes. 585 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,760 And so why is it bitter and non-caffeinated 586 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,320 is not so bitter? 587 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,640 It's the same as these trees. 588 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,360 They cut them down, and when they cut them down 589 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,440 and the way they cut them down, 590 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,100 it brings out the bitterness of them, 591 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,040 and we just eat it anyway, 592 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,760 when it's really a warning not to eat it, 593 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,320 but we say, well, we're gonna eat it anyway 594 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,800 and just throw some sugar in there. 595 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,280 But yeah. 596 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,120 That's amazing. 597 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:10,640 No, not quite sure that was true. 598 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,900 But anyway, but if you get herbal tea, 599 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,600 it's not the same as that, 600 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,080 because it's not harvested the same way 601 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:17,920 they get the whole leaf. 602 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,560 They don't do like the black teas. Yeah. 603 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:22,400 Wow. 604 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,400 Okay, and what is this? 605 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,680 It's a tree with roots, right? 606 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,480 So when you have a adult tree like this, 607 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,600 can you distinguish what roots belong to it 608 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,360 and what belongs to something else? 609 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,240 No, you can't tell. 610 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,980 Well, if there's baby trees in the forest, 611 00:21:41,980 --> 00:21:46,160 and it belongs to the same group or family of this tree, 612 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,040 if the sun can't get down in there, 613 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,820 then the babies can't produce food for themselves. 614 00:21:51,820 --> 00:21:55,340 So the adult trees, somehow or other, 615 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:57,320 they know those babies are struggling. 616 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,060 So they will get their roots, 617 00:21:59,060 --> 00:22:01,060 and they'll tie in with the babies 618 00:22:01,060 --> 00:22:03,560 and give them nutrition until they're big enough 619 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,520 to make their own food. 620 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,600 Wow. So yeah. 621 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,040 So they nurse them in a way. 622 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,400 Yeah, yeah. 623 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,520 That's fantastic. 624 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,600 But it's just amazing that that mess 625 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,860 can go and find another mess 626 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:17,640 and figure out whose roots are whose. 627 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,880 I mean, that's incredible. 628 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,700 Anyway. 629 00:22:22,580 --> 00:22:24,080 Oh, Proverbs, this is good. 630 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,280 Proverbs 6 and 7. 631 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,360 It says, go to the ant thou sluggard, 632 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,600 consider her ways and be wise, 633 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,660 which having no guide, overseer, or ruler. 634 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,240 I wonder what our kids would do 635 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,380 if they didn't have a ruler and overseer. 636 00:22:40,380 --> 00:22:42,040 Would they be like the ants? 637 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,520 Well, mine weren't, but yeah. 638 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,800 The Bible tells us that we should know, 639 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,040 you know, we know what to do. 640 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,360 We should do what we should do, right? 641 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:54,960 We don't need to be nagged about it. 642 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,000 We don't need, our children don't need the mom 643 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:57,940 and dad nagging them. 644 00:22:57,940 --> 00:22:59,380 They know to clean their room. 645 00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:00,720 Go clean your room, right? 646 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:02,980 So what is this? 647 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:05,960 That's an ant hill, right? 648 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:10,520 So we've got, we're gonna show you 649 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,020 what's underneath, right? 650 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,680 So this is what's underneath. 651 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,380 This is the ant colony. 652 00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:21,280 And so it looks like just a big mess in there, 653 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,000 but it's actually very organized. 654 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,200 And if you look at the screen, 655 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,360 you'll see that an ant colony has several entrances. 656 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:32,560 And within that ant colony is the queen ant, 657 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,040 who is the most important ant. 658 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,280 She's the one that keeps the colony going. 659 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,800 She's laying eggs constantly. 660 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,260 So once she lays the eggs, 661 00:23:42,260 --> 00:23:45,120 there's ants that come over here and they put, 662 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:46,080 oh no, they're over here. 663 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,120 The eggs over here and they tend to the eggs. 664 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,540 Then once they hatch out, then they come down here. 665 00:23:52,540 --> 00:23:55,940 And there's another group of ants that take care of them. 666 00:23:55,940 --> 00:23:59,040 There's ants over here that are storing food. 667 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,960 You know, they just, different things that they do in here. 668 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,440 And so some of them are in there 669 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,400 and they're keeping it clean. 670 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:12,400 And when ants from each colony, they each have pheromones. 671 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,240 And a pheromone, they emit it as they walk along. 672 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,600 And that pheromone is a odor or smell 673 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,800 that they can smell from each other. 674 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,420 And they know if they belong to their colony. 675 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:26,200 The longest colony that they have found 676 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,480 is almost 4,000 miles long. 677 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,500 And this is it where those big black dots 678 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:32,940 goes all the way down here. 679 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:37,740 And how they know that's one colony 680 00:24:37,740 --> 00:24:40,700 is they got an ant over in Italy 681 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:44,820 and they took it over here and they let it in. 682 00:24:44,820 --> 00:24:46,820 Then they took an ant from another colony 683 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:49,260 and they did the same thing and they did not let it in. 684 00:24:49,260 --> 00:24:52,700 So they knew it was the same pheromone, same colony. 685 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:55,460 So if humans were to build a colony this big, 686 00:24:55,460 --> 00:24:58,660 it's comparable to the Great Wall of China. 687 00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:01,100 So they worked pretty hard at this. 688 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,220 And it's got all those rooms like that colony 689 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:04,620 that he's walking around with. 690 00:25:04,620 --> 00:25:07,500 It's like that, it's very elaborate. 691 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:10,520 So what are these ants doing? 692 00:25:12,260 --> 00:25:13,620 They're building a bridge. 693 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:16,120 They need to get from point A to point B. 694 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,520 So they're working together, right? 695 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,140 So the Bible tells us to study the ants, 696 00:25:21,140 --> 00:25:22,280 so what should we do? 697 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,980 We should work together, help each other out, right? 698 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:28,500 Build bridges, there you go. 699 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:31,460 This is another one, you can't see, 700 00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:33,820 this isn't a very good picture, but I like it. 701 00:25:33,820 --> 00:25:35,420 This is another bridge 702 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:38,020 and you probably can't tell what that is. 703 00:25:38,020 --> 00:25:39,620 Does anybody know what that is? 704 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,540 It's a wasp nest. 705 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:45,980 So these ants have built a bridge all the way here 706 00:25:45,980 --> 00:25:49,380 and going up and they're going to destroy 707 00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:51,860 what's in that wasp nest. 708 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:55,020 The wasp all run away and whatever's left, 709 00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:57,500 they take it and take it back home and eat it, 710 00:25:57,500 --> 00:26:00,020 whether it's the babies or whatever's in there. 711 00:26:00,020 --> 00:26:02,900 Or some of the adults can't escape quick enough, 712 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:04,520 so that's a problem. 713 00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:07,820 What are these ants doing? 714 00:26:07,820 --> 00:26:09,760 That's my favorite picture right there. 715 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,200 They're what? 716 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,700 They're leaf cutters. 717 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:17,700 And it looks like this guy here is hitching a ride, right? 718 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,300 But he's not really hitching a ride. 719 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:20,660 You can see he's cutting that. 720 00:26:20,660 --> 00:26:23,820 So I think he's lightening the burden of this other ant. 721 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:25,100 So what should we do? 722 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:28,420 Lighten the burden of each other, help each other. 723 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,540 You see somebody in need, go help them. 724 00:26:30,540 --> 00:26:32,460 Don't we have something for the kids? 725 00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:34,340 We do have something for the kids. 726 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:35,780 Can I pass this back? 727 00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:36,620 Yeah. 728 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:39,020 If you're a kid, raise your hand. 729 00:26:39,020 --> 00:26:41,700 We have little toy ants and I want you to put it somewhere 730 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:46,100 and when you see this, think of the ant. 731 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:50,780 So the ants can carry 10 to 50 times their body weight. 732 00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:53,340 So they're extremely strong. 733 00:26:53,340 --> 00:26:54,680 But this guy's helping him anyway. 734 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,260 He could carry that leaf easily. 735 00:26:57,140 --> 00:26:58,840 And does anyone know what this is? 736 00:26:59,820 --> 00:27:01,260 It's what? 737 00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:04,020 It's a pile of fire ants. 738 00:27:04,020 --> 00:27:07,740 Fire ants are very difficult to destroy. 739 00:27:07,740 --> 00:27:10,540 You get one ant, you can drown him. 740 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:14,380 You get a bazillion ants, they turn into a raft. 741 00:27:14,380 --> 00:27:16,980 They're holding on to each other and they're floating. 742 00:27:16,980 --> 00:27:18,620 And the ones on the bottom, 743 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:21,980 when they get tired of holding everybody up, 744 00:27:21,980 --> 00:27:24,980 they go to the top and the next level they come down 745 00:27:24,980 --> 00:27:27,940 and take over until they get tired and they keep rotating. 746 00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:30,140 And they can do this for several months. 747 00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:33,540 And it only takes just very few minutes 748 00:27:33,540 --> 00:27:35,340 for them to organize this. 749 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:38,940 But like if it's a hurricane comes through 750 00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:40,420 and there's a lot of water or whatever, 751 00:27:40,420 --> 00:27:42,540 that's how they survive. 752 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:48,500 Another thing about ants is they have two stomachs. 753 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:50,420 So they have one stomach to share 754 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:55,420 and one stomach to eat their own food. 755 00:27:55,580 --> 00:27:56,420 So. 756 00:27:56,420 --> 00:27:57,340 So they have potluck. 757 00:27:57,340 --> 00:27:59,500 They have potluck, yes. 758 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:00,660 Yes. 759 00:28:00,660 --> 00:28:03,260 So they're helping each other in that way as well. 760 00:28:05,740 --> 00:28:08,280 So that's the last slide. 761 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,380 Yeah, that's another one of those. 762 00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:11,780 Nathan Green, yeah. 763 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:12,820 Pictures. 764 00:28:12,820 --> 00:28:15,940 And that comes from the First Corinthians. 765 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:18,820 It says, I have not seen nor ear heard, 766 00:28:18,820 --> 00:28:21,580 neither have entered into the heart of man 767 00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:26,460 the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 768 00:28:26,460 --> 00:28:27,740 Isn't that amazing? 769 00:28:27,740 --> 00:28:32,100 So even if somebody has never heard about God or Jesus, 770 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:35,700 or they live in a world that just couldn't 771 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,500 have happened on its own, it's amazing. 772 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:42,020 So the universe declares the glory of God. 773 00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:44,140 That's quite amazing, isn't it? 774 00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:44,980 Yes. 775 00:28:44,980 --> 00:28:47,600 Wow, we have a God, a great God. 776 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,300 The God, we have no idea how powerful our God really is. 777 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:52,980 We have no idea how powerful. 778 00:28:52,980 --> 00:28:56,660 And all this that they're doing now is after sin, 779 00:28:56,660 --> 00:29:00,380 so it had to be extra incredible before sin. 780 00:29:00,380 --> 00:29:01,660 That's right. 781 00:29:01,660 --> 00:29:05,100 And we talked about how long, like Voyager, 782 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:09,620 Voyager has been up there now for over 40 some years, 783 00:29:09,620 --> 00:29:12,620 and it's traveling very, very fast. 784 00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:15,060 And if it went all the way around the Milky Way galaxy, 785 00:29:15,060 --> 00:29:17,260 it would take 500 years. 786 00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:22,340 But you know, someday, Jesus is going to take us all up 787 00:29:22,340 --> 00:29:23,500 to heaven, isn't he? 788 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:24,700 How long is that going to take? 789 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:25,340 Seven days. 790 00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:26,140 Seven days. 791 00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:28,100 I wonder how far that is. 792 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:30,140 It's way out of our solar system, 793 00:29:30,140 --> 00:29:33,060 maybe out of our galaxy for sure. 794 00:29:33,060 --> 00:29:48,700 That's quite amazing.