The verses I received are blue; my comments are in red.
Isaiah 44: 1-2
1 "But now listen, O Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 This is what the LORD says—he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Here God is talking to the Israelites telling them they were his chosen people before they were born. I consider this to be evidence of predestination, an all-knowing God, and his commitment to the Israelites. Note the reference to the womb where the flow of blood (life) begins.
49: 5
5 And now the LORD says—he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength-
I believe this a prophecy of Jesus coming. Another reference to the womb!
Jeremiah 1: 4-5
4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew ([a] or chose) you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Here Jeremiah is told by the Lord that he has been chosen before the beginning of time; i.e., predestined by God himself, to be a prophet to all nations, not just the Jews. Another reference to the womb!
Job 10: 8-12
8 "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
9 Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
11 clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? =
12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
In these passages Job is complaining to God about the afflictions that God has placed on him. If you read verses 17, 18, and 19, you can see that Job trying everything possible to get God off his back (so to speak). Job was pleading his case as a modern-day defense lawyer would--leaving, no stone unturned. Here we have two references to the womb.
17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
18 "Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
Psalm 22: 9-10
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.
10 From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
In the first verse of this Psalm I am not certain whether David is complaining on his own behalf or foreseeing Jesus coming or possibly both. On into the Psalm there are some striking passages that are obvious references to some incidents that took place at Jesus’ crucifixion. These two passages (9-10) may refer to Jesus, Mary, and God. Two more references to the womb.
51: 5
5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
This passage refers to “original sin” that goes back to Adam and Eve. “The time my mother conceived me” refers to the womb. Without being in the womb and attached to the endometrium there is no conception. Estimates are 40 to 80 percent of naturally conceived zygotes (fertilized eggs) and blastocysts (3-5 day old fertilized eggs) within the female’s reproductive system are passed from the female’s body without resulting in pregnancy. A small percentage of blastocysts have actually contacted the womb but are also ejected. This is clear evidence that conception takes place only after the blastocyst is firmly implanted in the womb and God has predetermined “this one” will become a baby.
139:13-16
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
The reference to the innermost being may be one’s soul. We are made in God’s image, which is wonderful, and the rest of these passages refer to the all-knowing God and a human being whose very existence was predetermined by God. Another reference to the womb!
Luke 1: 41-44;
41When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42In a loud voice she exclaimed: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!
43But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
This is the account of the meeting of Mary (who was pregnant with Jesus) and Elizabeth (who was pregnant with John the Baptist). Elizabeth was elderly and had been barren but was blessed by God when she was included in his plan by giving birth to John. Elizabeth was about 6 months further along in her pregnancy than Mary and the Holy Ghost probably initiated John’s reaction to the baby Jesus. This is evidence of an all-knowing, all powerful God, with a specific plan to redeem us from our sins and that the plan is coming to fruition. These passages are a historical account of that meeting. Again, two references to the womb.
Romans 3: 8
8Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.
This may involve the Jews’ reaction to Paul’s assertion that Jews and Gentiles were equal in God’s eyes. Slanderously accusing Paul’s preaching of salvation through faith and not by works as being evil, going further to say, since Paul says salvation by faith is to the glory of God when it is actually evil—we should do evil to glorify God. This was a very difficult passage for me to try to analyze. I researched this for hours and wound up with a headache, so I gave up. I am open to your thoughts on this passage.
Why do most of the passages above refer to the womb? Because it is where life begins! Why is it so hard for some religious leaders to figure this out? Because they started lying about it and they cannot retract a lie.
Exodus 20: 13
13 "You shall not murder. I also received the 6th Commandment from one respondent.
You can’t murder something that has no life (blood).
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