Jesus references psalm 22:6 on the cross, which starts with the words " My God? My God? Why have you forsaken me?". Psalm 22:6 is rife with messianic imagery from David. I n English we get from the translation "worm" but the Hebrew isn't just any worm. It is the scarlet worm- a "scale" insect that was a major source of red dye in the region during that era. The way this worm reproduces : it climbs a tree, lays its eggs, covers them with its body and dies releasing a scarlet stain onto the tree. The young then must eat the body of the insect as their first meal once they hatch. The husk then becomes white and falls away as the young free themselves from the cocoon. So in Psalm 22:6 david is using a little insect to describe his lowly state but the specific insect has a prophetic power designed into it by God of one that will ascend a tree and die, shedding a red stain and must be eaten by those it has died to give life to so that they may be free.
Nature has ways of pointing to God that we barely understand!
Brother I am glad you are in the healing, and listening, moment. Lord please bless Ken with healing fully and thoroughly. I can't wait to hear what the Lord shows you in the slow lane that was too deep to hear in the fast lane. one thing that rocked my world recently was psalm 22:6 -Tola'ath = Kermes vermilio
share how the red worm did that.
Jesus references psalm 22:6 on the cross, which starts with the words " My God? My God? Why have you forsaken me?". Psalm 22:6 is rife with messianic imagery from David. I n English we get from the translation "worm" but the Hebrew isn't just any worm. It is the scarlet worm- a "scale" insect that was a major source of red dye in the region during that era. The way this worm reproduces : it climbs a tree, lays its eggs, covers them with its body and dies releasing a scarlet stain onto the tree. The young then must eat the body of the insect as their first meal once they hatch. The husk then becomes white and falls away as the young free themselves from the cocoon. So in Psalm 22:6 david is using a little insect to describe his lowly state but the specific insect has a prophetic power designed into it by God of one that will ascend a tree and die, shedding a red stain and must be eaten by those it has died to give life to so that they may be free.
Nature has ways of pointing to God that we barely understand!
Brother I am glad you are in the healing, and listening, moment. Lord please bless Ken with healing fully and thoroughly. I can't wait to hear what the Lord shows you in the slow lane that was too deep to hear in the fast lane. one thing that rocked my world recently was psalm 22:6 -Tola'ath = Kermes vermilio