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Luke 11:21 “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace….” Our Lord recognized that in a sinful world we must be prepared to protect ourselves. The same is true in the animal and plant world. When it comes to trying to exp...

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Luke 11:33 “No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.” Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world...

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Psalms 103:15-16 “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.” When I was a science teacher, in government schools in En...

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Isaiah 55:12 “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Forestry organizations have a major problem with be...

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Genesis 1:12 “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” Species of foxglove appear on both sides of the Atlantic. I w...

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Matthew 2:11 “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” Why di...

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James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James says that “every good and perfect gift is from above…” Perhaps I am ...

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Genesis 1:11b “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth’; and it was so.” The chempedak tree is found in Malaysia. It is closely related...

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Psalm 20:1 “May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob defend you…” You may not think of plants as being super intelligent on any level since it appears that they just sort of sit in the soil and grow. Ho...

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Genesis 1:29 “And God said, Behold, I have given you every … tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” Presumably, before the fall into sin, we didn’t have any bad cholesterol, or at le...

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