A Publication of Alpha Omega Institute The Crimson worm [coccus ilicis] is a very Crimson worm, Jesus sacrificed or gave up his life on special worm that looks more like a grub than a a tree so that his children might be washed with his worm. When it is time for the female or mother crimson blood and their sins cleaned white as snow. Crimson worm to have babies (which she does He died for us, that we might live through him! only one time in her life), she finds the trunk of “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the a tree, a wooden fencepost or a stick. She then LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as attaches her body to that wood and makes a hard white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they crimson shell. She is so strongly and permanently shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18 KIDS THINK stuck to the wood that the shell can never be removed without tearing her body AND completely apart and killing her. TOO! The Crimson worm then lays her BELIEVE eggs under her body and the protective shell. When the baby worms (or larvae) November-December2011 hatch, they stay under the shell. Not only THE CRIMSON OR SCARLET WORM does the mother’s body give protection for by Lanny and Marilyn Johnson her babies, but it also provides them with food – the babies feed on the LIVING body Psalm 22 (sometimes called the Psalm of the of the mother! Cross) is a great chapter of the Bible that tells about After just a few days, when the young the suffering and death worms grow to of Christ 1,000 years the point that before he actually gave they are able his life upon the cross. to take care of Verse 1 says, “My God, themselves, my God, why hast thou the mother forsaken me? …” In dies. As the mother the gospels of Matthew Crimson worm dies, Other interesting facts about she oozes a crimson or 27:46 and Mark 15:34, the Crimson Worm: scarlet red dye which Jesus cried out the same • The Crimson worm is common to the region words while hanging not only stains the of old Israel. on the cross. In verse wood she is attached 6 of Psalm 22, Jesus to, but also her young • In ancient days the dead bodies of the female says something odd: children. They are Crimson worms were scraped from the tree, “But I am a worm, and colored scarlet red for dried, and then ground into a powder that was no man.” What did he the rest of their lives. used to dye their cloth and garments a scarlet mean by saying “I am a After three days, or red color. worm”? the dead mother • They are round, about the size of a pea. Usually in the Bible, Crimson worm’s body Because they don’t look like a worm, some loses its crimson color the Hebrew word for people thought they were part of a plant. and turns into a white a worm is “rimmah”, • The crushed worm was also used to make which means a maggot – but the Hebrew word wax which falls to the ground like snow. medicine that helps the heart beat smoothly. Jesus used here for worm, is TOLA’ATH, which So what did Jesus mean by saying “I am a means “Crimson worm” or “Scarlet worm”. Both worm”? There are a lot of ideas what Jesus might • The white wax body was used to make scarlet and crimson are the colors of blood – deep have meant, but nobody really knows for sure. shellac, a preservative of wood. red. However, it is very interesting that, just like the Look for 26 differences between the two pictures. FOR ANSWERS GO TO: http:// www.discovercreation.org/kids/ NewsletterAnswers.htm

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BIBLE JESUS SNOW BLOOD LARVAE TREE COLORED PSALM WAX CRIMSON RED WHITE FOOD SCARLET WOOD GRUB SINS WORM

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