Psalm 22:10
10 I was cast [shalak] upon thee
from the womb: [rechem] thou art my God ['el] from my mother's ['em]
belly. [beten] KJV-Interlinear
10 Upon
Thee I was cast from birth; Thou hast been my God from my mother's womb. NASB
The preposition from,
shows the place that movement started, and in this case, that movement started
‘from’ the womb. And this comes to mean,
out from the womb. The destination by default exists outside of the womb, not
some other location within the womb.
The word for belly,
‘beten,’ also specifies the hollow place or place within the female mother,
namely the womb.
This tells us several
things.
First, Jesus was born a
human being. He was carried in the
mothers womb for nine months and then was born.
Second, his human life
began at the point of birth, ‘out from’ the womb.
And third, that life once
it started, came under the sphere of Gods protection.
This is not to say that
the fetus was not protected. But in that
case, the mother was protected in order to carry the pregnancy.
But here, until life is
introduced, there is no need for protection of the unborn child. That is not in the sense of human life.
Even in Revelation, we
are told that Satan stood ready to destroy the child once it was born.
For until the baby Jesus
sprang to life, he could theoretically have been born to any mother. Herod killed new born male children. Pharaoh killed new born male children.
But once the child was
born, and once that breath of life, which in Genesis is called ‘neshamah,’ or
the spark of life, is placed into the infant, then Gods grace for the living,
applies.
So, from the womb, from
the belly, and it does not say while in the womb, but from the womb, then Jesus
was cast, ‘shalak,’ means to throw down, to cast upon, to hurl at.
And Jesus’ life was
hurled, thrown, cast upon God. Only a
life can be cast upon God, not a non-life.
There was never a time in
which the humanity of Jesus was unprotected from God.
This also supplements the
concept that Jesus was born without a sin nature.
In Adam all have sinned,
and that indicates the reason for the lack of the use of Joseph in connection
with the virgin birth.
The sin nature is handed
down to every child from the father, not the mother. And therefore all of humanity is born
spiritually dead, thus requiring salvation or the plan of salvation in order to
be saved.
The only exception was
Adam and Eve. Adam was created, not
born, and Eve was constructed out of Adam, not born. Both came into life without the sin
nature. But then they both sinned and
that placed all of humanity in jeopardy.
Eve sinned out of
ignorance, but Adam sinned knowing full well what he was doing. Thus the burden of the sin nature was placed
within his genetics and reproductive abilities.
Therefore, Jesus in order
to be the perfectly born human baby, and therefore qualify for the cross, not
to mention to live the perfect life, had to be born without the sin nature,
thus the virgin birth. Thus He was the
second Adam, by beginning life without any burden of sin.
Joseph was excluded for
the process, and the Holy Spirit provided the necessary seed, likewise created
out of nothing, to cause the pregnancy in Mary.
So, out from the womb,
covers many concepts that point to Jesus as perfect humanity, and under the
protection of God, for His entire life, and qualifying Jesus as the perfect
candidate in every respect, for Gods plan of salvation.
