04/30/2022
"You Knit me together in My Mother's Womb"..... by Pastor Jess Foglesong
Proverbs 8: 22--31: Wisdom: The Lord created me the beginning of his works, before all else that he made, long ago. Alone I was fashioned in times long past, at the beginning, long before earth itself. When there was yet no ocean I was born, no springs brimming with water. Before the mountains were settled in their place, long before the hills I was born, when as yet he had made neither land nor lake nor the first clod of earth. When he set the heavens in place I was there, when he girdled the ocean with the horizon, when he fixed the canopy of clouds overhead and set the springs of ocean firm in their place, when he prescribed its limits for the sea and knit together earth's foundations. Then I was at his side each day, his darling and delight, playing in his presence continually, playing on the earth, when he had finished it, while my delight was in mankind.
Wisdom is the "information" that God has placed in the creation process. The universe--the entire universe--was the size of the pupil of your eye. All of the "informationâ needed to form the vast cosmic stellar universe was confined within that tiny ball of energy. God's wisdom was present there with all of the information needed to form--Life! Then God gave the â'Wordâ and "boom" it exploded systematically into the dynamic universe that we see today--including the earth, the sun, you, and all you feel and see around you.
Wisdom is the essence of all creation. It is hidden in the tiniest, the smallest of God's kingdom; within the atom and it's quantum world that whirls and permeates around us--ubiquitously within all life itself.
Wisdom and the making of a human being:
At birth a female has 2 million pre-eggs that lie dormant in her ovarian wings. All of the "information" needed to form a human being is there--guaranteed by God's wisdom. Just as he was there--lying dormant--before the "Expansion" that formed the universe
So information in forming a human being, in the same manner, waits for that moment, then on queue, implement its process of making a baby.
Two million eggs, surprisingly, many are not viable and by puberty only about 4 hundred thousand remain. At each ovulation, many eggs rupture, and only one egg matures. Because of the disintegration of the egg supply, by the time a woman reaches her fifties, not enough are available to keep up with her monthly cycle.
At ovulation, a follicle in the wall of one of the two ovaries burst open and a mature egg is released. The previously dormant egg divides yielding two cells each having 23 pairs of chromosomes. But here's the kicker: only "one" cell will go on to be a baby. The other cell will "starve" and disintegrate and if the egg is fertilized, the excess supply of intracellular material will benefit in the process of formation of the embryo and fetus in development.
In the initial formation of the universe, as the mass of energy expanded--like the bursting of ovulating eggs--stars are similarly born (formed) out of nebula clouds that spread throughout the growing universe. Many (like the eggs) do not survive and after bursting out of the clouds disintegrate as "stardust," which adds to the overall formation and proliferation of planets and "Life" itself.
Wisdom has programmed the making of stars; and in the same way, the making of a human being.
The human egg is now swept into the woman's fallopian tube and will be available for fertilization by a male s***m for only 10 to 15 hours. Then it will not accept any s***m, and will itself disintegrate as part of the monthly cycle. The male s***m (a wonder within itself), after being ej******ed into the woman's uterus has only 48 hours before it too, is not viable. So it immediately (with its whipping tail action) knows the correct fallopian tube to enter and swim against all odds toward the developing egg.
Approximately 3 hundred million s***m enter the va**na, and they die in droves as theyâlike eager salmon fighting the currents going up riverâtraverse the chemically hostile environment of the fallopian tube. But by the time they reach the target, only a few hundred remain. Wisdom allows only âOneâ s***m to enter the egg wall. And even after that single head of the s***m that is within the outer shell of the egg, waits; it is not allowed to enter the egg wall until a special chemical âkeyâ (a specially shaped protein) on the s***mâs head matches the chemical âlockâ that assures no other species has invaded the sanctuary of a human being. No foreigners are allowed! Only if there is a âmatchâ will the doors open to begin the process of fertilization, and a new potential life to go forward.
The door is closed to all other s***m trying to force their way in âŚ. Wisdom only allows âOneâ to enter into the sanctity of Godâs creative realm. Oneness: illustrates that there is only âOneâ God; as well as âOneâ Christ! And they both equal One!
It is the ballet of blending both s***m and egg together in joining their respective chromosomes, instigating the process of building a human being:
First of all, through the next few weeks, with the formation of an embryo. By the time the egg reaches the uterus, itâs day four. The miniscule embryo, now takes shape through distinct steps in development. All following the directions placed within its DNA and molecular blueprint by the âwisdomâ of the Creator.
The cluster of eggs (called the morula) has transformed itself from a ball of over 60 cells into a sphere shaped ball filled with fluid and called a âblastocystâ and is ready to attach itself to the wall of the uterus, where it will mesh with the motherâs arterial system to form a placenta. This wall or separation is essential for the developing embryo, as it is an entity foreign or hostile to the motherâs immune system and would seek to destroy it if not for the mediatory function of the placenta.
This transitional organ is a divine illustration of the mediatory work of the Christ (Jesus): without his sacrifice as the mediator for all of mankind, God (like the motherâs immune system) would destroy a tainted human race. But because of Godâs grace He came to earth as the redeemer (mediator) and salvaged the entire human race.
The placenta, an amazing organ, is a product of both the fetus and mother, and has a heck of a task of isolating the fetus from the mother. Very cleverly, wisdom has allowed it to protect the intruder (the fetus), to perform itâs minute by minute, day to day regulatory processes such as: the transfer of nutrients and oxygen, while expelling fetal wastes out to the motherâs circulatory system ⌠and so much more.
As was The Christ, after being born as a human child, was a product of the Father and the human race; and in turn was able to be a âbarrierâ between the pure righteousness of Godâs Light and human kind. He became our redeemer and our representative--our mediator (even, our placenta).
And as the days go by, into the second week, the intricate ballet of forming the fetus goes full speed ahead. By the third week structures that will be the heart and nervous system emerge. Then the heart starts beating. By week five the key organs are in place: liver, pancreas, and thyroid. The eyes dot the side of the head. It is still in the embryo stage, quite tiny (about the size of the âtheâ in this sentence).
At the sixth week, it has developed exponentially: The eyes are clearly visible; the brain begins to enlarge (it will continue to grow even after birth to approximately, age 25). Arms and legs are visible, although sporting webbed hands and feet like ducks; later as programmed by wisdom will lose this aberration favoring normal human appendages.
Actually at this stage the embryo looks more like a fish than a human: the eyes on the side of the head, and webbed like appendages, etc; a reminder that all of life emerged out of the sea. The earth was inundated with water during its formation; signally the beginning, of the formation of living one celled life ⌠And the beginning of âlifeâ building progression.
Birth is the culmination of wisdomâs finest work
At the end of nine months of fetal development, it is near time for the birth process to start. The fetal placenta, sensing that the time for birthing has arrived, stops producing a hormone that for nine months kept the uterine muscles relaxed. In the absence of this chemical inhibition, they begin the contractions of labor.
As we mentioned before, that the fetal placenta is (in the larger view) an illustration of humanityâs own (symbolic), placenta (Jesus, The Christ): our âwallâ between God and us. We wonder when the final days will arrive before his second coming. The bible states that there will be signs; and then the birth pangs will start. The contractions will begin for a new birth into the Kingdom of Heaven.
As the actual birth begins, the umbilical arteries (the cord), for nine long months, the fetal life-line, clamp shut while the umbilical vein (amazingly) âwaitsâ to shut just long enough for the fetal blood that happened to be in the placenta at this moment to be returned to the fetus. All of this happens in an instant. Again, Godâs wisdom had programmed this at the beginning; all part of the instructions given by the âWordâ of the Creator.
When The Christ arrives--it will be in an instant! The blood that was in the placenta is an illustration of the Christ that returns to the body of believers. Then (and only then), all believers will be taken (or whisked out) into His waiting hands, as a Doctor waits to cradle the newborn--into a new realm: for the fetus, a new life as a human baby; for the faithful human, a new life as well, as a member of Godâs heavenly kingdom.
Several things has to happen just before the baby is born, and if it doesnât take place, the infant is in peril: Blood flow is rerouted to pass through vessels of the lungs and intestines as the lungs prepare to breathe in air and the stomach prepares to digest food--hopefully the well-balanced nutrients of motherâs milk. A hole between the two sides of the heart that allowed the fetal flow pattern closes as the direction of the flow of blood through the heart â reverses.
This is our metamorphosis! Weâve change from a fish-like organism immersed in a sack full of liquid with eyes on the side of our heads, a snout-like nose, with webbed hands and feet, a one chambered heart, and become a full fledged human in just nine months. Have you ever observed a butterfly transform from one stage to another through its metamorphosis? Amazing!
And in the same manner, mankind will go through a metamorphosis as we are transformed from a mere physical human to a divine spiritual child of God--we will be reborn into His realm, equal with angels.
It was all programmed into one cell just nine months earlier! Such an expression of eloquence commanded from a single molecule. In life, âonenessâ is what we represent. At the onset of fertilization, within a single cell contained all the potential that you were ever (physically) to become. Within every cell of your body retains that âwisdom.â
With precision a new born (a human being) has been created, and slips through the narrow canal into the bright light of a new world. The fetus becomes a baby, born of a man and woman!
As human beings we will be born again. We too will slip through the gossamer tunnel of cheering angels, welcoming us to a stairway to heaven; to meet our leader, our friend, our redeemer. The promise that God had made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and all that believe in Him will have been fulfilled.
(God's Touch Ministry, fb)
