“What is God’s goal in maintaining this kind of balance?”| knowing God

“What is God’s goal in maintaining this kind of balance?” | knowing God 

“What is God’s goal in maintaining this kind of balance? This has to do with people’s environments for survival as well as mankind’s survival. If zebras, or any similar prey of a lion—deer or other animals—reproduce too slowly and the number of lions sharply increases, what kind of danger would human beings face? Firstly, the chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs raised by people would become prey for the lions, because they live outside.
Are those things enough for the lions to eat? Some households have two pigs. If a lion came down from the mountains and ate them, would it just leave after it was done? It would think: “There’s nothing to eat on the mountains, I’ll just stay here. A few humans are in this house.” As soon as the people come out, it will rush over and eat them up. People have no ability to resist. Wouldn’t this be a tragic thing? Lions eating zebras is a normal phenomenon,

but if a lion ate people, it would be a tragedy. This tragedy isn’t something predestined by God, it’s not within His rule, much less what He has brought for mankind. Rather, it is what people have brought upon themselves. So as God sees it, the balance between all things is crucial for the survival of mankind. Whether they are plants or animals, they cannot lose their proper balance. Plants, animals, mountains, and lakes—God has prepared for mankind a normal ecological environment. Only when people have this kind of ecological environment—a balanced one—is their survival secure. If trees or grasses had a poor ability to reproduce or their speed of reproduction was very slow, would the soil lose its moisture? If the soil lost its moisture, would it still be healthy? If the soil lost its vegetation and its moisture, it would erode very quickly, and sand would form in its place. When the soil deteriorated, people’s environment for survival would also be destroyed. Along with this destruction would come disasters. Without this kind of ecological balance, without this type of ecological environment, people would frequently suffer from disasters due to these imbalances between all things. For example, when there is an environmental imbalance leading to the destruction of frogs’ ecological environment, they all gather together, their numbers sharply increase and people even see large numbers of frogs crossing the streets in cities. If large numbers of frogs occupied people’s environment for survival, what would that be called? A disaster. Why would it be called a disaster? These small animals that are beneficial for mankind are useful for people when they remain in a place that is suitable for them; they maintain the balance of people’s environment for survival. As soon as they become a disaster, they will impact the orderliness of people’s lives. All the things and all the elements that frogs bring along with them can influence people’s quality of life. Even their physical organs can be attacked—this is one of the kinds of disasters. Another type of disaster, which is something that humans have experienced frequently—is the appearance of great numbers of locusts. Isn’t this a disaster? This is a frightening disaster. It doesn’t matter how capable humans are—people can make airplanes, cannons, and atomic bombs—but when the locusts encroach on mankind, what solution do they have? Can they use cannons on them? Can they shoot them with machine guns? They can’t. Then can they spray a pesticide to drive them out? That’s not easy either. What do those tiny little locusts come to do? They specifically eat crops and grains. Wherever locusts go, the crops and grains are completely obliterated. So, under a locust invasion, in the blink of an eye, the food that farmers rely upon—a year’s worth of grains—could be entirely consumed by the locusts. For humans, the arrival of locusts is not only an irritation—it’s a disaster. Locusts are a type of disaster, so what about mice? If there aren’t any birds of prey to eat mice, they will multiply very rapidly, faster than you can imagine. And if mice spread unchecked, can humans lead good lives? So what is it that humans would face? (A pestilence.)

Just a pestilence? Mice will chew on anything. They’ll even gnaw on wood. If there are two mice in one house, everyone in the entire household will be irritated. Sometimes they steal oil and eat it, sometimes they eat the grains. And the things that they don’t eat they just chew up and turn them into a complete mess. They chew on clothing, shoes, furniture—they chew on everything. Sometimes they’ll climb up onto the dish rack—can those dishes still be used? Even if you do disinfect them you won’t feel at ease, so you just throw them out. This is the trouble that mice bring to people. They’re just tiny little mice, but people have no way of dealing with them. They’re even bullied by them. There’s no need to even speak of a whole group of mice—just a pair of mice is enough to cause a disruption. If they were to become a disaster, the consequences are unthinkable. And if tiny little ants became a disaster, the damage they would do to mankind could also not be ignored. Ants chewing on wood to the point that a house collapses is a common occurrence. Their strength cannot be overlooked. Did you hear about the ants that ate a horse? There was a colony of ants swarming all over a large horse, and all that was left of the horse was a skeleton. Is that frightening or what? And when the horse rider saw that, where did he escape to? There was a lake nearby, so he ran toward the lake and swam to the other side. He survived that way. But after he had seen that, for the rest of his life he was unable to forget how those tiny little ants unexpectedly had such strength. They had nearly eaten him. If he hadn’t had a horse, the ants surely would have first eaten him, and because there was water between them, the ants weren’t able to make a bridge in time to go eat him. If the water hadn’t been there both the horse and the person would have been eaten together. The strength of the ants can’t be overlooked. Would it be frightening if different kinds of birds created a disaster? (Yes.) To put it in another way, no matter what kinds of animals or living things they are, as soon as they lose their balance, they will grow, reproduce, and live within an abnormal scope, an irregular scope. That would bring unimaginable consequences to mankind. That would not only impact people’s survival and lives, but it would also bring disaster to mankind, even to the point of people suffering complete annihilation, suffering the fate of extinction.”

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