The Tola worm was mentioned during last Sunday's sermon. As an aside, the Tola worm brings to mind the scarlet thread that runs throughout the Bible, a subject for another time.
But I digress; the Tola worm. Psalm 22 reads like it was dictated by Jesus from the cross and includes “But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.” Psalm 22:6
On the cross Jesus gave His life as a propitiation to bridge the gap between a righteous God and fallen man, something of a similitude to the Tola, the scarlet worm, who gives her life so that her young may have life.
When the Tola, the scarlet worm. reproduces, the female attaches herself permanently to a tree and covers her eggs with her body. The worm gives her life to feed her baby worms resulting in a crimson liquid that after three days leaves a red stain on the tree and a white shell.
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."
Perhaps there is a deeper meaning in the use of the word worm and the expression son of man in Job. “How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?” Job 25:4-6.
Our righteous God could not look at Jesus on the cross as Jesus represented our sin.
Matthew 27:46, “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
In fulfillment of another prophecy prophecy.
Psalm 22:1, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?”
Worm - H8438 - tôlâ‛ - a maggot, the crimson grub, in this connection of the color from it, and cloths dyed therewith: - crimson, scarlet, worm. [Strong’s]
