Christopher Rehage walked over 4500 kilometers (2796 miles) travelling from Beijing to Ürümqi. Rehage says he was driven by something, maybe he was losing control over it. He didn’t want to be that free guy in these awesome photos or in this video below, that detail his journey and the massive physical changes his appearance had undergone.
When asked how his state of mind was during this long and sometime brutal trip, he said, “It was just the way it would be on any normal day. Sometimes you think. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you worry about passports, dangers, pains, relatives and loved ones, and at other times your steps are light and you sing songs in the desert. Sometimes it is boring. And sometimes you feel at peace.”
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“Whenever any scientific revolution has driven out old modes of thought, the new views that take their place must justify themselves by the permanent or increasing satisfaction which they are capable of affording to those spiritual demands which cannot be put off or ignored.” — Rudolf Hermann Lotze
Today we are seeing the merger of science and the bible, but the facts are most scientists, and men of the cloth may fail to see the signs of this Apocalyptic event. Many people will think that these scientific revelations of the bible could be called blasphemy. Some will ignorantly think that this is something straight out of a Dan Brown novel, and I’m some bad guy in the Illuminati trying to enlighten unworthy humans. But the facts are, that this is no novel or Illuminati conspiracy.
In reality, this time in which we live is called the Apocalypse. A word that simply means”the unveiling,”and this event is exactly what Saint John had spoken about in the Book of Revelation. French Occultist, Gnostic and Philosopher, Eliphas Levi had said that in the end days in the tradition in the Church that the manifestation of the Mysteries of the Apocalypse is reserved till the last times.
The below dialogue is a satyr based on real words and facts that help substantiate what I and Eliphas Levis had stated, that Mysteries of the Apocalypse would be revealed in the End Time.
MODERN SCIENCE: In a wonderful way, they are like miniature human beings.” – Dr John Sulston, Director, Sanger Centre, UK
MODERN MEDIA: “Small Worm Makes History – Scientists have taken a historic step forward in unraveling the mysteries of life. Researchers in the UK and the US have mapped all the genes in a small worm called Caenorhabditis elegans.” – BBC News
OLD TIME RELIGION: “But I am a worm and no man. How much more is man rottenness, and the son of man a worm ? “First he said, ” Man is rottenness;” and afterwards, “The son of man a worm:” because a worm springs from rottenness, therefore “man is rottenness,” and ”the son of man a worm.”
MODERN SCIENCE: “By looking at the genes that are needed to make worm muscles, we can learn quite directly about the genes that make human muscles – because they are the same.” – Dr John Sulston, Director, Sanger Centre, UK
MODERN MEDIA: ‘Worm Wins Nobel Prize – In 1974, he showed that by adding a chemical compound, gene mutations could be induced in the worm – and that these mutations could have profound impacts on the development of the creature. This is the bedrock of much genetic science today – demonstrating the principle that our genes, if somehow mutated, might have a radical knock-on effect. This is the basis of the Nobel Prize award.’ BBC News
OLD TIME RELIGION: ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ Christ has said, “Because I fire, ye shall live also.”
MODERN SCIENCE: “The worm’s genetic blueprint has already proved useful in the study of the human brain condition Alzheimer’s disease.’ Monise Durrani, BBC Science
OLD TIME RELIGION: “How much less man, that maggot, And the son of man, that worm!” – Job 25:6
MODERN SCIENCE: “We have provided biologists with a powerful new tool to experiment with and learn how genomes function. We’ll be able to ask and answer questions we could never even think about before.” – Robert Waterston
MODERN MEDIA: What you can learn here from a crawling worm is applicable to humans,” Larson said. “Because it has the same building blocks.
OLD TIME RELIGION: “I have said to the worm, thou art my mother.” “The worm shall feed sweetly on him.”
So is the Apocalypse the book of the Gnosis or Secret Doctrine of the first Christians, and the key of this doctrine is indicated by an occult versicle of the Lord’s Prayer, which the Vulgate leaves untranslated, while in the Greek Rite, the priests only are permitted to pronounce it. This versicle, completely kabalistic, is found in the Greek text of the Gospel according to St Matthew, and in several Hebrew copies, as follows:
The sacred word MALKUTH substituted for KETHER, which is its kabalistic correspondent, and the equipoise of GEBURAH and CHESED, repeating itself in the circles of heavens called eons by the Gnostics, provided the keystone of the whole Christian Temple in the occult versicle. It has been retained by Protestants in their New Testament, but they have failed to discern its lofty and wonderful meaning, which would have unveiled to them all the Mysteries of the Apocalypse. There is, however, a tradition in the Church that the manifestation of these mysteries is reserved till the last times.”
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The colourful mural by Norwegian artist, Per Krogh features prominently in the UN Security Council chamber. It depicts a phoenix rising from its ashes, as a symbol of the world being rebuilt after the Second World War. . Photo: UN Photo/DN
This article is from the United Nations and I thought that my recent articles on the phoenix and worm coincide with this event.
Norway’s permanent place in the Security Council – Last updated: 5/22/2013 // Norway doesn’t have a permanent seat in the UN’s Security Council. The Security Council Chamber’s chairs and other interiors, however, are all Norwegian.
The United Nations’ Security Council Chamber has been renovated after almost 60 years of faithful service, and had its grand opening in April 2013. It was returned to its original form, and has hence stood the test of time. This was also a main priority when Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg planned its somewhat conservative interiors in the early 1950s.
‘My understanding of the problem was to execute a room of good, durable materials with a character, in all simplicity, which represented not only a casual taste of today, but a character so neutral that it could withstand the test of time,’ explained Arneberg to the periodical Interiors in 1952, shortly after the Chamber’s completion.
In the years that have gone by since then, this small chamber, situated in the UN Conference Building at Eastern Manhattan, has seen visits by more Heads of States and noble people than most other rooms around the world.
Exactly how Norway and Arneberg was handed the task of financing and constructing the interiors of this very special room, is hard to trace. But in a 2005 article in the Scandinavian Journal of Design History, Ingeborg Glambek concludes that it is obvious that the first UN Secretary-General, Trygve Lie of Norway, was influential when the decision was made.
Still, the process towards decorating the chamber wasn’t always as straightforward. For example, the Norwegian produced textiles for the walls had to be fire-proofed according to local New York state regulations; and this treatment, it turned out, made the textiles shrink!
This and other challenges were eventually overcome, and the trade-mark blue walls imprinted with the yellow anchors of faith, the growing wheat of hope, and the hearts of charity are still there.
Due to a need to cut costs, only the front part of the room was clad in marble, marble that is framing the main attraction of the room; a huge Per Krogh oil canvas painting constructed around the theme of a phoenix rising from a world in ashes.
It is easy to think that these ashes symbolize the then recent World War II.
‘The essence of the idea is to give an impression of light, security and joy. The world we see in the foreground is collapsing, while the new world based on based on clarity and harmony can be built up,’ explained Krogh himself in 1950, before adding;
‘Thus must the work of the UN and the Security Council provide the seeds for a new and more valuable life’.
Due to fear for the painting causing delegates to lose concentration, the then UN Art Panel was less convinced. But an insistent Arneberg, probably backed by Secretary-General Lie, eventually put the painting in place in time for the opening.
Today the fear for lack of concentration seems also to have gone away, as a decision was made to move the canvas along with the council to the temporary Security Council Chamber. And now it is back at its original location in the real and renovated Security Council Chamber.
The Security Council Chamber in figures First meeting held: April 4th 1952. Official inauguration: August 22nd 1952. Dimensions: Floor space of 48 x 29 meters. Capacity: 120 seats for the press and 400 for the general public
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The phoenix and worm regenerates itself from the fire. One is mythological in nature, and the other a scientific fact. All earth’s creatures are born from an egg, but the phoenix and worm are born from the fire, and are able to regenerate themselves without sexual intercourse. This is the myth of the phoenix, where from its corpse a worm emerges from the ashes of the dying bird. The next day from this worm after being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, a new phoenix is born, and on the third day flies away to Arabia.
The description of the resurrection of the phoenix from a worm appears to be a true story concealed in myths that tell us about reincarnation and immortality of the human soul. Many of these ancient myths are similarly told by various cultures and religions, such as in Christianity with the resurrection of Christ who rose from the dead on the third day.
In the bible, Jacob is called a worm and Christ also calls himself a worm in saying; “But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.”(Psalm 22:6) The Jews had even trampled upon Christ as if he was a loathsome creature akin to a worm. Jesus Christ is also connected with the phoenix in ancient Christian literature. Early Church fathers such as Clement of Rome had said the phoenix was representative of Christ’s resurrection. Pope St. Clement used the legend of the phoenix to explain Jesus’s resurrection, and ties to resurrection after death made the phoenix a popular image on Christian tombstones. The image to the left showing the symbolism of Jesus and the phoenix, is from a modern day Catholic Church in Spain.
In Christianity, the phoenix is also a symbol of the Virgin Mary and the virgin birth conceived in the womb of a mother who was yet a virgin. Just like Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans, Perseus was also virgin-born. In Job 29:18, Job says he will multiply his days like “Khol.” The meaning of the Hebrew word khol is both sand and phoenix. In Jewish tradition, the khol or milcham is the phoenix who was rewarded with immortal life for being the only creature in the Garden of Eden to refuse the forbidden fruit.
As it is said in Mark 9:48 – ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ Christ has said, “Because I fire, ye shall live also.” In Matthew 16:21; “From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” And 1 Corinthians 15:4 – “that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”
Before the Old and New Testaments were written, we had the The Book of the Dead where in Chapter 13, we can find where the morning star reference was first originated: ‘I go in like the Hawk, and I come forth like the Bennu bird [the Phoenix], the morning star of Ra’s—where, for ‘morning star.’ The Phoenix flew into Egypt in the Consulship of XII Quintus Plannus, that it was brought to Rome in the Censorship of Claudius, in the eight hundred year of the City, and testified also in their records; but after all concludeth, Sed quc e falsa nemo dubitabit, As we read it in the fair and ancient impression of Brixia; as Aldrovandus hath quoted it, and as it is found in the manuscript Copy, as Dalechampius hath also noted.
Herodotus was the first writer who had given us the first detailed account of the Phoenix:—” It comes but once in five hundred years int0 the country where its father dies.” Artemidorus, the Ephesian, in the time of Antoninus Pius, had said; “A certain time elapsed, a worm is produced from the ashes [of the former-phoenix], and this worm being transformed, becomes again a phoenix.” According to Philostratus, “the phoenix resembles an eagle, and traits rays of light from its feathers.” Achilles Tatius:—” It comes from Ethiopia into Egypt: it vaunts the sun as its lord, as is testified by the image of which its head is crowned: it is of a cerulean colour, of a rosy aspect, and its feathers project like the solar rays.”
The mythical phoenix of both Greek and Roman legends had described this fire bird with a brilliant red plumage that emitted pure sunlight, and it was immortal for it could live for many centuries. It would spend its years in Arabia, and upon reaching the end of its lifetime it would fly into Egypt where it was reborn in flames. In ancient China, this phoenix is one of the four sacred animals along with the dragon, tortoise, and unicorn who helped create the world. The ancient Hermetics had regarded the phoenix as a symbol of the accomplishment of alchemical transmutation.
33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall had written in the The Lost Keys of Freemasonry; “These were the immortals to whom the term ‘phoenix’ was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle , a familiar and little understood Masonic emblem .” Hence, what is thought to be the double headed eagle of the 33rd degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in reality, is a double headed phoenix, or one could say a double headed worm or serpent such as the symbol of the Caduceus Wand of Hermes. This wand was symbolized by a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings. This same symbol is now used in the “commercial medical industry” who places profits above humans and health.
Could these alleged serpents really represent two immortal worms?
The Roman poet Ovid had written this about the Phoenix: “Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odors. From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent’s sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun.”
Milton, in “Paradise Lost,” Book V., compares the angel Raphael descending to earth to a Phoenix:
“… Down thither, prone in flight
He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky
Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing,
Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan
Winnows the buxom air; till within soar
Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems
A Phoenix, gazed by all; as that sole bird
When, to enshrine his relics in the sun’s
Bright temple, to Egyptian Thebes he flies.”
A slow-worm is a snake or serpent. Every language, ancient or modern, exercises its own right to call worms what are not worms. In short, “worm,” like many others, is an encroaching and aggressive word, claiming much which it has no right to. It is a feudal seigneur who shifts his landmark, so as to take in every tempting scrap of contiguous ground.
From a worm was produced the phoenix, of which there never was but one; and when she came to her end by burning, out of her ashes there arose another worm, which afterwards grew to be another phoenix. A silk-worm with the motto ” Sibi vinculanectit” is a device of the courtier who makes himself a slave and spins his own chains, although they be silken. A worm figures the remorse of conscience. Naked as a worm, expresses the very extreme of nudity. The worm turning when trodden upon, is the protest of the feeble against injury and injustice. To draw the worms out of anybody’s nose, is to get him to talk and betray his secrets. There are two Saints Ver or Verus—that is, Saints Worm.(2)
Fire is the very element of action, energy, power, creativity, passion, desire, and sexuality. The symbol for fire is the upright triangle or pyramid. This is why the ancient Egyptians had built pyramids. Manly P Hall had written in the Initiates of the Flame; “Of the elements of the earth is this altar composed. It is the great cube of matter. On or in this altar burns Flame. It is this Flame that is the spirit of all created things. Man, know thyself. Thou art the Flame, and thy bodies are the living altar.”
A fire that can literally burn us alive by creating our own delirious passions and vice driven hells, or it can literally transform and forge our souls into perfection so that we then rise above the flames like the glorious ancient fire-bird, the phoenix. – Moe
The symbol of the self-born, who is the androgynous phoenix in the esoteric symbol. The double-headed phoenix is the prototype of an androgynous man, for according to the secret teachings there will. – 33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall
SOURCES:
1. The lives of alchemystical philosophers; with a catalogue of books in occult – By Francis Barrett
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By understanding what happens in the worm cells, researchers also learn what happens in human cells. Of the 5,000 best-known human genes, 75 percent have matches in the worm – Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
Now let us look to the bible and ancient science, for the Lord Himself says, “But I am a worm and no man. How much more is man rottenness, and the son of man a worm ? “First he said, ” Man is rottenness;” and afterwards, “The son of man a worm:” because a worm springs from rottenness, therefore “man is rottenness,” and “the son of man a worm.”
In a wonderful way, they are like miniature human beings.” – Dr John Sulston, Director, Sanger Centre, UK
Is man really rotten, and the son of man a worm?
The scientific facts are that many of the allegorical and literal stories that are told in the bible, can now be easily compared to modern science. In order to do so, you have to have an open mind to both science and religion, and also the willingness to use reason in the form of common sense to merge the two. Also, the fact that the office of the inquisition is no longer burning heretics at the stake; this really helps us layman to freely explore both science and religion without the fear of death for doing so.
Christ had called himself a worm, and the Jews had also esteemed Christ as a worm. He was considered loathsome to them and was hated by them to the point they had trampled upon him, and trod him under foot as men.(1) As said in Mark 9:48 – ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ Christ has said, “Because I fire, ye shall live also.”
The bible passage above and the quote from Dr. John Sulston, seems to correlate exactly with the current science of the various species of worms that can be found on earth. Worms are simply the most cunning and adaptable creatures in the world. They make the million year old cockroach who can survive just about anything and anywhere, look like child’s play; for the worm is truly king of this world. For example, I recently had written an article called Devil Worm which told the story of a worm like no other animal, that can withstand the highest heat temperatures and crushing pressure inside the earth. In fact, Scientists had interestingly named the worm after a demon named Mephistopheles of the Faustian legend, “Halicephalobus mephisto.” A name meaning, “he who loves not the light.”
WORMS IN THE BIBLE
In both the New Testament and the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), you can locate several stories about worms that may help us answer some of these life after death questions. Stories of men being called worms, or angels being connected to worms can be found in many places all throughout the bible.
And from these worms God made angels. If the Lord said of Himself: “I am a worm and not a man” (Ps 21:7) We find this passage more correctly rendered in the Hebrew Bible: “Man that is a worm (rimmah), and the son of man which is a maggot” (tole’ah).
Now my second question; “Is man that is a worm (rimmah), and the son of man which is a maggot” (tole’ah)?”
In studying science and the worms, or what could be called in the occult, elementals; I have found that worms infest the blood, organs, bones and cells of the human body. There is not one human on earth who doesn’t carry these worms. They are a scientific fact of life, for all life is born from the origins of the worm of the sperm, to our ending of putrefaction of our bodies in the DNA of the worm. Hence, the biblical saying, “The son of man a worm,” is because that worm is essentially our DNA being when we die and in which it recycles itself back into Mother Earth.
In a 1998 article in the Associated Press, researchers proved that both humans and worms share many genes with one another, and that the study of the worm will lead to cures of diseases in humans.
Researchers have mapped the entire gene pattern of a tiny soil worm, a feat that some say is the biological equal to landing on the moon and a major milestone toward finding new ways to cure disease.
The worm, a type of nematode called Caenorhabditis elegans, is as common as dirt. Thousands live in a typical handful of garden soil.
But the small creature also is a complex, multicelled organism that carries many genes that also exist in humans, and function in the same way.
As a result, the worm provides a crucial keyhole view of the vast world of genetics, said Robert H. Waterston, who led a team at the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis that joined with British scientists to map the worm’s genes.
“This worm is really an animal just as we are,” said Waterston. “It has muscles and many different kinds of cells. And it also ages, just as we do. By and large, it uses the same genes that we do.”
By studying genes shared by worm and human, researchers will learn at a molecular level what can go wrong and how to fix it. Such microscopic studies are virtually impossible in humans.
“Half of the disease genes in humans have identifiable counterparts in this worm,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. He said researchers into many human diseases will be able to use the humble worm as a way of learning how to prevent, treat and cure the illnesses of man.
In order to find the light in the glow of a worm, we must first also ask ourselves; “Where do we humans go, and what evidence or physical matter is left of we humans when we die that can be verified by science?
Scientists have taken a historic step forward in unraveling the mysteries of life. Researchers in the UK and the US have mapped all the genes in a small worm called Caenorhabditis elegans. It is the first animal for which this has been done. It has taken 15 years to complete and will have major implications for human health.
Most people will never have heard of the creature which grows to about 1mm in length and lives in soil or among rotting plants, but it has much in common with man. Around 40% of the worm’s genes – which hold all the instructions to build and maintain the creature – are also found in humans. This means that a study of C. elegans will also reveal much about the biological processes inside humans. C. elegans may be a much simpler lifeform but it also begins life as a single, fertilised cell and undergoes a series of cell divisions as it grows into an adult animal. During this process, it also develops complex tissues and organ systems.
It even has a nervous system that can detect odour, taste, and respond to temperature and touch. .. Although it has taken until now to complete the worm genome, there are more than 200 labs around the world already engaged in C. elegans research.’
DID THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE MERGE A LONG TIME AGO?
To find the answers to this biblical and scientific question, we all must search inside one of the oldest alchemical and super natural history books known to human kind. A book which happens to be the oldest surviving book in the world, the bible. A word that simply means book. Please do not think just because you are not religious, a Christian, or a bible reader, that the words in the pages of the bible do not affect you or this world, because they do. Hence, it will do you much spiritual good to take heed to some of these teachings that can be found hidden in the pages of this 3,000 year old book, in both the Old and New Testaments.
In order to find the light in the glow of a worm, we must first also ask ourselves; “Where do we humans go after we die, and what evidence or physical matter is left of us that can be verified by science? Could the worm be the answer to this Alpha and Omega immortal question? I think so…….
If you study the substance of sperm in which humans are born from, you will start to see how sperm is truly “worm-like” in its appearance. In fact, in a drop of sperm, you will find hundreds of millions of thin symmetrical shaped worms swimming around as if they have a life of their own. The English word sperm comes from the Greek word (σπέρμα) sperma (meaning “seed”). It is from these seeds, or should I say worms, that human life is formed; and yes, the strongest worm always wins. Hence, survival of the fittest is not a man made creation or sport, but a God given reality and plan to keep balance with the AS ABOVE, and SO BELOW.
Genesis 1:11 – And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.
Luke 8:11 – Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:5 – “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
Sperm is from the Greek word seed, and these seeds we can clearly verify with science that they are really millions of microscopic worms that swim around in a fluid, which is akin to a fish swimming in the sea; this may be what is described in Genesis 1:21 – “So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
Here is a video below that shows the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves. Every animal and mammal on earth born of the flesh is created the same way. From man, to the worm, to the fish. This is why in the bible, Jesus calls fisherman to follow him; “And Jesus said {as he saith} unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.”
The facts are, that there are eight different kinds of worms that feed on human blood, flesh and bones. When we die, if we are not cremated, these same worms consume our rotting flesh as we decompose into the soil, to the point where the only thing left of our bodies is truly our DNA or life essence contained inside the worms who fed upon our very flesh. Worms who eventually die themselves, and are recycled through the Alpha and Omega process of the morning star. I had written about these worms that feed upon the human flesh in previous articles such as Wormwood: Bugs With Fiery Teeth Who Feed, Live And Die On Human Flesh, and Humans Infested With Worms From Hell.
Could these same worms that feed on our blood, carry more than just our DNA when we die? Is this a cycle of immortality, in which man can now use science to bottle up these worms and catch the life Alpha and Omega essence of any human they wish to keep immortalized. I think so, and that is essentially what the bible is telling us. In fact, I think at one time this was common knowledge among many kingdoms and priesthoods who would abuse this immortal process, thus starting the reign of the Nephilim or the fall of man, or should I say, the fall of the worm?
Here are the words of Saint Augustine who had educated his fellow brethren about worms, angels and God in the Gospel of Saint John:
Give good heed to what follows, brethren, “All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made,”so as not to imagine that ” nothing” is something. For many, wrongly understanding “without Him was nothing made,”are wont to fancy that “nothing “is something. Sin, indeed, was not made by Him; and it is plain that sin is nothing,and men become nothing when they sin. An idol also was not made by the Word;—it has indeed a sort of human form, but man himself was made by the Word;— for the form of man in an idol was not made by the Word, and it is written, “We know that an idol is nothing.”
Therefore these things were not made by the Word; but whatever was made in the natural manner, whatever belongs to the creature, everything that is fixed in the sky, that shines from above, that flies under the heavens, and that moves in universal nature, every creature whatsoever: I will speak more plainly, brethren, that you may understand me; I will say, from an angel even to a worm. What more excellent than an angel among created things? what lower than a worm? He who made the angel made the worm also; but the angel is fit for heaven, the worm for earth. He who created .also arranged.
If He had placed the worm in heaven, thou mightest have found fault; if He had willed that angels should spring from decaying flesh, thou mightest have found fault: and yet God almost does this, and He is not to be found fault with. For all men born of flesh, what are they but worms? and of these worms God makes angels.
For if the Lord Himself says, “But I am a worm and no man,” ‘ who will hesitate to say what is written also in Job, “How much more is man rottenness, and the son of man a worm ? “3 First he said, ” Man is rottenness;” and afterwards, “The son of man a worm:” because a worm springs from rottenness, therefore “man is rottenness,” and “the son of man a worm.” Behold what for thy sake He was willing to become, who “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!” Why did He for thy sake become this? That thou mightest suck, who wert not able to chew. Wholly in this sense, then, brethren, understand “All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.
“For every creature, great and small, was made by Him: by Him were made things above and things beneath; spiritual and corporeal, by Him were they made. For no form, no structure, no agreement of parts, no substance whatever, that can have weight, number, measure, exists but by that Word, and by that Creator Word, to whom it is said, “Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and in number, and in weight.”4 ,
14. Therefore, let no one deceive you, when perchance you suffer annoyance from flies. For some have been mocked by the devil, and taken with flies. As fowlers are accustomed to put flies in their traps to deceive hungry birds, so these have been deceived with flies by the devil. Some one or other was suffering annoyance from flies; a Manichoean found him in his trouble, and when he said that he could not bear flies, and hated them exceedingly, immediately the Manichaean said, “Who made them?” And since he was suffering from annoyance, and hated them, he dared not say, “God made them,” though he was a Catholic. The other immediately added, “If God did not make them, who made them?” “Truly,” replied the Catholic, “I believe the devil made them.” And the other immediately said, “If the devil made the fly, as I see you allow, because you understand the matter well, who made the bee, which is a little larger than the fly?”
The Catholic dared not say that God made the bee and not the fly, for the case was much the same. From the bee he led him to the locust; from the locust to the lizard; from the lizard to the bird; from the bird to the sheep; from the sheep to the cow; from that to the elephant, and at last to man; and persuaded a man that man was not made by God. Thus the miserable man, being troubled with the flies, became himself a fly, and the property of the devil. In fact, Beelzebub, they say, means ” Prince of flies;” and of these it is written, “Dying flies deprive the ointment of its sweetness.”
In Psalm 22, Verse 6 in the Treasury of David, it is said about the worm;
“But I am a worm, and no man.” This verse is a miracle in language. How could the Lord of glory be brought to such abasement as to be not only lower than the angels, but even lower than men. What a contrast between “I AM” and “I am a worm”! yet such a double nature was found in the person of our Lord Jesus when bleeding upon the tree. He felt himself to be comparable to a helpless, powerless, down-trodden worm, passive while crushed, and unnoticed and despised by those who trod upon him.
He selects the weakest of creatures, which is all flesh; and becomes, when trodden upon, writhing, quivering flesh, utterly devoid of any might except strength to suffer. This was a true likeness of himself when his body and soul had become a mass of misery—the very essence of agony—in the dying pangs of crucifixion. Man by nature is but a worm; but our Lord puts himself even beneath man, on account of the scorn that was heaped upon him and the weakness which he felt, and therefore he adds, “and no man.”
The privileges and blessings which belonged to the fathers he could not obtain while deserted by God, and common acts of humanity were not allowed him, for he was rejected of men; he was outlawed from the society of earth, and shut out from the smile of heaven. How utterly did the Saviour empty himself of all glory, and become of no reputation for our sakes! “A reproach of men” —their common butt and jest; a byword and a proverb unto them: the sport of the rabble, and the scorn of the rulers. Oh the caustic power of reproach, to those who endure it with patience, yet smart under it most painfully!
“And despised of the people.” The vox populi was against him. The very people who would once have crowned him then contemned him, and they who were benefited by his cures sneered at him in his woes. Sin is worthy of all reproach and contempt, and for this reason Jesus, the Sinbearer, was given up to be thus unworthily and shamefully entreated.(1)
Chron. 16.29. to.the Lord in the beauty of holiness, Plat. 29. 2. | 66. 4. | 96. 9. Mat. 4. 10. Luke 4. 8. Psal. 5. 7. I will to. toward thy temple, 138. 2. 45. 11.he is thy Lord, and to. thou him 81. 9. neither shalt thou to any strange god that is weak, mean, and despised in the world, 95.6. O come, let us to. and bow down and kneel it compares him to a worm of the earth,
because 97. 7. to. him, all ye gods, then heard, was glad nothing is found to be morecontemptible than this 99. 5. to. at his footstool, for he is holy, 132.7. creature, Job 25. 6. How much less man that 9. exalt the Lord, and to. at his holy hill is a worm? And the Psalmist says, I am a Isa. 2.8. they to. the work of their hands, 20. | 46. 6. worm and no man, Psalm 22. 6. The worm 27. 13. shall to. the Lord in hol v mountain at Jerusalem of the damned dies not, and their fire shall 49. 7. princes also shall to. because of the Lord never be quenched, Isa. 66. 24. “They will 66. 23. all flesh shall come to to. before me feel a worm of conscience that shall never die, Jer. 7-2. that enter in at these gates to to. 26. 2.
“and the fiery wrath of God upon their souls “and bodies that shall never go out.” Exod. 16. 24. neither was there any to. therein Job 17. 14. I said to the to, thou art my mother 24.20. the to. shall feed sweetly upon him 25. 6. much less man that is a to. and son of man Psal. 22. 6. but I am a to. and no man, a reproach Isa. 14.1 l.the to. is spread under thee, and worms 41.14. fear not, thou w. Jacob, and ye men of Israel 51. 8. and the to. shall eat them like wool 66. 24. for their to. shall not die, nor their fire be quenched, Mark 9. 44, 46, 48. Jonah 4. 7. God prepared to smote the gourd WORMS.(3)
Leviticus 19:19 – “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
SOURCES:
1. The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the …, Volume 1 By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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