The Towla Worm Preaches A Sermon

     Today's message is special and is about the life of the towla worm that preaches a sermon about the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We can find the towla worm in the bible at Psalm 22:6 where the I Am who is the Lord Jesus proclaimed that He is a towla worm by saying But I am a worm (a towla scarlet crimson worm that exists today), and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Jesus is God's only Son, the crimson towla worm whose shed blood makes us whiter than snow and removes our sins forever.

     When we look at the towla worm today, we will learn about the Lord Jesus. Before a towla worm has her babies, she climbs on a tree all by herself. Nobody forces the towla worm to get on the tree. She willingly searches out the kermes oak which is symbolic of its destiny. Then by her own choice, she climbs on the kermes oak tree. Jesus, by His own choice (not by man's choice), climbed upon the cross of Calvary (made of kermes oak and not from a dogwood tree), and He did not come down until He finished what He came to earth to perform and died for our sins.

     Jesus fully obeyed a command from His Father to lay down His life for sinners and take it again when He died on the cross of Calvary to display His love for lost sinners. John 10:17 says Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. John 15:13 says Greater love hath no man than this, that a man (the Lord Jesus) lay down his life for his friends.

     Jesus could have called twelve legions of angels to set Him free from the cross of Calvary, but Jesus stayed on the cross and died to save multitudes of lost sinners. Matthew 26:52 says Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

     After the towla worm attaches herself to the kermes oak tree, she knows that she will not come back down alive. The towla worm goes to the tree to birth a family and realizes that she must die. The towla worm's babies can not live unless their mother dies. Because Jesus died for lost sinners, saved christians can now live. Colossians 1:21 says And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled. In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.

     Next the towla worm will make sure she is secure because her body will be the shelter for her young that are born. The prophet Isaiah also proclaimed that the man Jesus is the shelter from the storm for His believers that are born again at Isaiah 32:2 saying And a man (Jesus) shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert (shelter) from the tempest (storm); as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. It was not nails that held our Savior to the cross. It was love. That same love and broken body of our Lord Jesus is the protection for us against all the winds of heresy and unbelief of the ages.

     You might say Why is there a red crimson stain on the tree pictured above? The answer can be found when we continue to study the life of the towla worm when she gives birth to her babies. During her birthing process, the towla worm secretes a crimson fluid or gel. The scarlet dye fluid covers her entire body and all the eggs she lays. It also leaves a stain on the tree that will never fade away with the passing of time. The wind can't remove it, the waters can't wash it out, and age along with time can't do any harm to it.

     Please excuse me if I shout praises to the Lord Jesus right here. You may need to join me and shout for joy too. The blood of Jesus stained Him, the cross, and all of us that are saved children of God. The bible proclaims at Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus Christ (and the blood of Jesus Christ shed at the cross) is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Therefore according to Revelation 12:11 the saints will forevermore overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb Jesus. Tell the devil that the blood of Jesus forever covers me and is evidence and proof that all my troubles, fears, and sins have been destroyed forevermore by Jesus at the cross of Calvary.

     Brother Bob also tells people everywhere to say daily to the devil I am crucified with Jesus Christ and the blood of Jesus forevermore covers me to defeat and overcome the devil while they praise and worship the Lord Jesus. I believe the blood of Jesus is our most powerful weapon to destroy the devil and give us victory daily in our lives. The blood of Jesus will never lose its power. Thank you Lord Jesus for forever covering saved christians with the blood of Jesus that never fades away and forevermore overcomes and defeats the devil.

     Take time to praise the Lord Jesus for dying for us all on the cross of Calvary so christians can be blessed and live while you read these blessed scriptures. Hebrews 2:10 says For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Jesus truly proved that He is the towla scarlet worm when the soldiers mocked Jesus and put a scarlet robe on Jesus. The bible says at Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto Him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped Him, and put on Him a scarlet robe.

     After the towla worm pictured above birthed her family and died, something amazing took place. For only a period of three days after the death of the towla worm, the towla worm could be scraped from the tree and mixed with water to make a scarlet dye that could never be removed.

     The bible states that this scarlet dye from the towla worm was used to make the curtains of the tabernacle and the priestly garments. Exodus 26:1 says Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet (the scarlet dye from the towla worm): with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exodus 28:6 says And they shall make the ephod (priestly garment) of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet (the scarlet dye from the towla worm), and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

     After three days and on the morning of the fourth day, the towla worm had pulled its head and tail together and was now in the shape of a heart on the tree, but it was no longer crimson red. The towla worm was now a wax that was white as snow. Praise the Lord Jesus for being God's heart that died on the cross for you whose blood washes us whiter than snow. Isaiah 1:18 says 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.

     Now note that after the towla worm turns into a wax, this wax is harvested and used to make shellac, a preservative that protects wood. The resurrection after three days of our Lord Jesus Christ was the shellac or the proof that preserved the message that the Lord Jesus died on the cross of Calvary for multitudes of lost sinners for all generations. Without the resurrection, the cross of Calvary would be meaningless. 

     The towla worm is also very fragrant when it is crushed. No other life in history has sweetened the pathway of humanity like the crimson towla worm (Jesus) who was crushed at the cross of Calvary for our sins. And yet another blessed fact about the towla worm is that a crushed towla worm can be used as medicine. The Lord Jesus is our crushed towla worm that heals all our diseases. Isaiah 53:5 says But He (the Lord Jesus) was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

     When Jesus was whipped with 39 stripes before His crucifixion, it was because punishment by flogging or whipping was limited by law to 40 stripes save 1. The reason Jesus took 39 stripes was so that christians could rejoice daily and say with Jesus' stripes I am healed. Medical science has proven that there are 39 categories of every illness that ever existed. Look this up on google and you will see that there are 39 categories of sickness. 

     Therefore the 39 stripes that Jesus took at the cross of Calvary cover every type of sickness anyone could ever have and truly when we say daily I am crucified with Jesus Christ we can claim the promise that with Jesus' stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). Right now rejoice, say, and believe the promise of 1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

     The Lord Jesus is the towla crimson worm who died and was crushed for our sins. Jesus protected us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. Galatians 3:13 says Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Take time now to reflect on the price Jesus paid to redeem our souls from destruction. Jesus shed His precious blood for lost sinners at the cross of Calvary to redeem them from sin. 1 Peter 1:18 says Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Jesus died for us. Will you live for Him?

     Jesus said at Matthew 4:19 Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Notice that in the first picture when Jesus the towla worm was present in the boat with Peter and James, they caught a great multitude of fishes that their net brake. Jesus said to Peter at Luke 5:4 Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught (catch or haul of fish). And Simon answering said unto Him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

     Jesus is the bait or towla worm that got hooked at the cross of Calvary that christian fishers of men must use to catch and pull lost sinners out of the fire of hell. Notice in the second picture that after Jesus was resurrected, He again showed the disciples that He is the towla worm that can catch multitudes of fish or lost sinners. Jesus told the disciples at John 21:6 fishing after His resurrection, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

     When Jesus died, He was the middle man on the cross of Calvary. On one side of Him there was a man dying in his sins, and on the other side of Him there was a man dying from his sins, but the man on the middle cross was dying for sin. After Jesus died on the cross for us, Jesus made us adopted sons of God. Saved christians are adopted sons of God and no man can remove them from God's will and blessed inheritance. If a parent has natural kin, they can remove them from their will, but if a child is adopted, the adopted child can not be removed from a parent's will by law.

     The following scriptures proclaim that saved christians are adopted children of Jesus who have a blessed inheritance that can never be removed by any man or law. Romans 8:15 says For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Ephesians 1:5 says Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.

     Christians are property owners of mansions given to us by the Lord Jesus on Hallelujah Boulevard. When christians get to their mansions in the kingdom of God, they will be ready to immediately move in, and they won't have to wait on the streets for the builders to perform the finishing touches on their mansions. I need to add this other blessed revelation I heard from another preacher. According to Philippians 1:21 For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Therefore christians experience a win win situation where they can not lose.

 
     Notice the picture above of Jonah who was used like bait when he was thrown from a ship and swallowed by a great fish that reminds us of the towla worm (Jesus). Jonah 1:15 says So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

     Now you might say how does the above picture of Jonah being used like a towla worm for a great fish to swallow relate to Jesus? The answer can be found at Matthew 12:40 that says For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly (a sea monster or devil's belly); so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

     Jonah was a type of towla worm that was swallowed by the devil sea monster or great fish. Jesus (the towla worm) was swallowed by the devil at the cross of Calvary. But like Jonah, when Jesus was swallowed by the devil, Jesus destroyed the devil at the cross of Calvary and after three days the devil had to let loose of Jesus and Jonah. This is proven by Ephesians 4:9 that says Now that He (Jesus) ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.

     The devil thought that he had defeated Jesus at the cross of Calvary but Jesus turned the tables on the devil and destroyed the devil at the cross of Calvary. Hebrews 2:14 says Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He (Jesus) also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He (Jesus) might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. 

     Jesus totally stripped the devil of his power and proclaimed to the devil at Revelation 1:18 I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. The devil doesn't even have the keys to his own home.

Jesus died on the cross of Calvary so lost sinners can have eternal life

Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning,

Confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel, 

That Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again

     I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.