The Most Unique Bee on Earth

"The Kingdom of God, what shall I compare it to".  The Father says to his daughter.



"It is like a Bee Worker, named Mediator, in the garden who produces honey for the King named, Yaweh.  Yaweh loves honey and thats all He ever eats and is satisfied with.  And just the opposite Yaweh hates nectar.




The flower's desire to please Yaweh the King, but they can only produce nectar on their own not pure honey.








In His body the Worker Bee, Mediator, changes the Nectar into honey and then presents it to the King.   The flowers see the Mediator changing the nectar into honey and then giving it to the King.  And the King being pleased that the Mediatory did this for them.  The flowers see all this happening and believe that the father is pleased with them because of the work of the bee on their behalf."

Verses to further your understanding

What is Jesus called in this verse?

1 Tim. 2:5

What are two things Jesus does in these verses? 

Heb 7:23-25 

Question to ask yourself

1. Do you think you can get to heaven because you are good and your works are good enough?
2. Do you think your works are pleasing to God because Jesus makes them pleasing to God?
3. Do you try to do more good (internally, but mostly externally)  to make up for the sin you do?
4. Do you hate the remaining nectar, sin, in you?
5. If you hate the sin in you, what do you think you should do?

Intended analogies by the me the author

1. Christ is the Bee
2. Honey is the works of love to God and love to our neighbor that we should produce for God
3. Christians are the flowers
4. No matter how hard they try the flowers can't make the love God requires and is satisfied with
5. As Christians our works are not pleasing to God in and by themselves
6. It's in Mediator, the Bee, that our works become acceptable to God

(Note to the reader)  Due to the nature of the bee taking our nectar, this parable is more suited to the intercessory work of Christ in sanctification.  If the Bee where to have done a life's work and then went straight to the King on their behalf then the parable would be more lively in expressing substitutionary atonement (Christ's love at work obeying the Father on our behalf).

Facts about bee's from wikipedia

1. Bees have a long proboscis (a complex "tongue") that enables them to obtain the nectar from the flowers.
2. The pollen that they gather goes to feed their babies or larvae.
3. The smallest bee is about 2 mm  or 5/64" long.  The biggest one is about 1 1/2 inches.
4. People who harvest honey from the bee's for us to eat are called Beekeepers.
5. The beekeeper's job is to take care of the bee's and harvest the honey, this is called beekeeping.
6. There are over 20,000 know species of bee's.
7. To make 1 pound of honey, bee's have to visit around 2 million flowers.  Each trip, they go to 50-100 flowers.  During a single flight, worker bee's get about 1 drop of honey.  They can make up to 24 trips a day.
8. 60,000-80,000 bee's make up one colony.

Video showing a bee gathering honey

Cool video of bees, speed up, in hive making a hive!