'31' The Series - Deborah

Some scientists have confirmed that of all the animals in the animal kingdom the bee ranks among the highest in intelligence ( I know you are wondering what the Bee has got to do with my 31 woman for this episode. well, hold your honeycombs dears 😁)

It is also estimated that one third of the food we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees and yes, the most important thing the bee does is to pollinate ( when this happens plants reproduce, fruits, carrying seeds can develop).

Oh! what intriguing things you begin to unravel when you study creation and much more intriguing is how beautifully interwoven all of creation is. 

(Let me fall back in line before I turn this into a poem)

Our leading woman for this episode is Deborah, a Hebrew name translated to mean "a Bee" and just like the bee Deborah helped the children of Israel develop (by solving disputes and presiding on issues). 

Blessed with the intelligence to say the right things to sooth situations she wasn't just good with words, this woman also had a fatal sting for her enemies when it came down to it, what a wonderful blend of sugar and spice.

At a time when the children of Israel were basically playing tenten (today they are loving up, tomorrow they go 'who be you?') with God, he had to raise men to deliver them from their oppressors and gifted a WOMAN.

I was reading through how the stories of these judges began and I noticed something different when I came to the fifth judge who happens to be Deborah, all four male judges before her started out with "....the lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel...." and these men went out to war physically to defeat the enemy of Israel at the time.

Deborah's was different (it isn't recorded that she was raised like the men before her). 

Deborah had a gift, one she actively utilized barring the circumstances that defined a woman at the time (do you know the quality of sweet honey you must be producing as a woman in biblical society for men to willingly come to you for judgement?) and just as it is unimaginable even to this day for a woman to lead a battle, Deborah by the virtue of her gift summoned a man (Barak) whom she knew the lord had raised to fight this battle physically and deliver Israel one more time. 

Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go."

And at this point Deborah thought and said to him "okay, we tried to let society have it's way but since you have decided to let this ship sail in a different direction this victory will not be yours, it will be given to a woman. No, not me, another woman (still hold on to your honeycombs dears, we will talk about this amazon much later in another episode) will have this victory" and having fought with words she went forth to throw off the oppressor's yoke with swords (what a wholesome queen).

With the oppressor defeated, this queen bee sang for forty more years. 

Culture couldn't stifle her voice, tradition couldn't stand against a woman determined to use her gift, society just had to make room for not only one, as a tale that started with one woman ended with two.

Find your song and do not stop singing (that's what queen bees do)😊