The Crimson Worm Symbolizes Jesus
Psalm 22 is attributed to King David and symbolically associated with the Son of David, Jesus Christ along the line of descendants of the Throne as the promised Messiah. Psalm 22 references many of the sufferings of Jesus Christ would endure 1,000 years later on the Cross, as referenced by verse 1: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34), verse 7: All they that see me laugh me to scorn, verse 17: they look and stare upon me, and verse 18: they part my garments among them.
In verse 6, a reference is made to a worm, "But I am a worm..."
The Hebrew word used in the verse is TOLA'ATH, which means crimson worm or scarlet worm.
The crimson worm (coccus ilicis) is a unique variety or kind that does not look like a typical worm, as It is round-shaped like the size of a pea. The crimson worm is common in the region of Israel and in ancient times the crimson worm's body was used as a dye for cloth and garments. The crimson worm is often found on the Israeli Common Oak or Palestine Oak and the worm feeds on the sap of the tree.
When the female crimson worm lays her eggs, she finds a tree to attach to her body and creates a hard crimson shell. She is attached to the tree so strongly that her body cannot be removed. The eggs are laid and hatched under her body and protective shell. The mother worm also feeds the babies part of her body. (John 6:51: I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world).
After a few days, the babies grow and the mother dies and exerts a crimson-colored liquid material which stains the tree and her babies. After three days, the mother's body loses its crimson color and becomes white like wool, falling to the ground like snow (which symbolizes Isaiah 1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.).
The crimson worm's attachment to the tree symbolizes Jesus Christ on the Cross, as referenced in Psalm 22.
Psalm 22 (KJV)
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Psalm 22 is attributed to King David and symbolically associated with the Son of David, Jesus Christ along the line of descendants of the Throne as the promised Messiah. Psalm 22 references many of the sufferings of Jesus Christ would endure 1,000 years later on the Cross, as referenced by verse 1: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34), verse 7: All they that see me laugh me to scorn, verse 17: they look and stare upon me, and verse 18: they part my garments among them.
In verse 6, a reference is made to a worm, "But I am a worm..."
The Hebrew word used in the verse is TOLA'ATH, which means crimson worm or scarlet worm.
The crimson worm (coccus ilicis) is a unique variety or kind that does not look like a typical worm, as It is round-shaped like the size of a pea. The crimson worm is common in the region of Israel and in ancient times the crimson worm's body was used as a dye for cloth and garments. The crimson worm is often found on the Israeli Common Oak or Palestine Oak and the worm feeds on the sap of the tree.
When the female crimson worm lays her eggs, she finds a tree to attach to her body and creates a hard crimson shell. She is attached to the tree so strongly that her body cannot be removed. The eggs are laid and hatched under her body and protective shell. The mother worm also feeds the babies part of her body. (John 6:51: I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world).
After a few days, the babies grow and the mother dies and exerts a crimson-colored liquid material which stains the tree and her babies. After three days, the mother's body loses its crimson color and becomes white like wool, falling to the ground like snow (which symbolizes Isaiah 1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.).
The crimson worm's attachment to the tree symbolizes Jesus Christ on the Cross, as referenced in Psalm 22.
Psalm 22 (KJV)
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
