“Look out for the mosquitoes,” my wife warned me, “there’s a
whole bunch of them in the back yard.”
Will there be mosquitoes in Heaven? If there are what will
they eat, or will they eat? They may actually be fun to play with in Heaven,
though I can’t imagine how right now.
Those aren’t mosquitoes,” I retort, “they’re too small and
mosquitoes don’t cluster like that.” Or so I thought.
I just returned from my evening walk and ran straight into a
large cluster of mosquitoes, the biting kind.
Fortunately, I managed to escape
without donating blood. But I’m confused, do mosquitoes cluster or not?
I remember a canoe trip to northern Ontario about 40 years
ago. Coming from Nova Scotia, I thought I knew mosquitoes but my eyes were
opened to a new reality on the Groundhog River. As soon as the rain started, about
an hour after we put our canoe in the water, they suddenly materialized out of
thin air, billions of them. So thick you could hardly see through them.
It was a cluster, a really, really big cluster, about
150,000 square miles ending at the Saskatchewan border. I gave enough blood
that week to save 17 lives.
Where did mosquitoes come from? Did God make them? Of
course, God made everything, but surely He didn't make them to bite and suck
blood in the Garden of Eden? That would have happened after the expulsion from
the Garden and God’s cursing the earth. So mosquitoes must be part of the
curse. They certainly invoke some cursing from some victims.
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