Ah!!! But the catch there is that is speaking specifically of Jesus being formed in Mary's womb.
The prophet greater than Moses:
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Yes indeed: have a good day
In further help to what was said here above, I will show more how it is that was done by God inspiring the using of Jeremiah as formed to God in Jerusalem's womb as we see done at Jeremiah 1:5. (Note also you can find the comparison of Jerusalem herself being like that child neglected and abandoned in the wilderness with her umbilical cord yet attached. Ezekiel 16:4 "And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all." These pictures are many in the OT.)
One of the places many mistakenly uses such comparisons which are actually to Jerusalem's womb to support that false idea of being special in the womb of our natural birth mother is Galatians 1:15. They try to claim that is actually Paul's natural birth mother when in fact it is Paul's, and all those Jews back then, view of what the mother that fleshly city of Jerusalem was to them in their hearts. Psalms 137:6 "If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."
Notice how many times in the Song of Solomon which is about the bride of Christ, his present true church, speaks, saying things like, Song of Songs 2:7 "I charge you,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." These are God's elect men and women who become Christ's bride, his true church.
The Old fleshly Jerusalem was a shadow of her and the Jews all at that time viewed themselves as being nurtured to God by the water of God's word of Law in her womb, as she was the keeper of God's law to Israel.
Proverbs 1:8 "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.." Jerusalem was as that source of wisdom, the dispenser of her husbands instructions through her law to her children.
So we see Paul speaks of his conversion on the road to Damascus, likening it as being born or separated away from that fleshly Jerusalem's womb: Galatians 1:13 For
ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
This compares to what Paul told the Corinthian church: 1 Corinthians 15:7 "
After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
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last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."
And we see how he viewed both that fleshly Jerusalem and after that fleshly woman did all the laboring for him to be born, his adoption here to the the Jerusalem above as a child of the free woman in the kingdom of heaven:
Galatians 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Also please consider:
When someone tells you that you are specially gifted to God in the womb of your natural birth mother, be wary of their flattery. And here is why:
I will share with the signs that reveal he is nothing more than flesh masquerading as inspired of God. First you must understand that as Paul spoke in 2 Cor 11:2-4, 13-15, that these men have a subtle mix of the truth and falsehood which they cannot help as they themselves have been deceived. Yet there are some that know and yet do it as if to mock God. And the portion which is falsehood is often revealed (though at times it may be more) in that it is aimed to flattery which appeals to another man's fleshly desire to believe that he is more special than he really is, so that he might then become blinded to see who he himself really is. And the Holy Spirit cannot work with us to correct the flaws of our flesh if we so conceal those flaws from ourselves by masking them as God's doing.
That is proof that he is not speaking through the holy inspired spirit of God, for it is based upon a foundation of deception. Let me now acquaint you with where and how that idea is derived by their twisting of the scriptures, or rather, the spirit of error twisting those scriptures to them.
They base this idea on the fact that God did choose certain ones from the womb as he did Isaac. And as God did Jacob over Esau. But it is a falsehood that God did so due to their being anything special about them in the womb of their natural birth mothers. Paul clearly tells us why God chose them and what Paul said, is the entire reason why. There is no more to it than this: Romans 9:11 "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.)"
God chose them from the womb so that they could not boast that God shows respect to men by virtue of their flesh. Thus Isaac was chosen where Abraham's true firstborn by Hagar (Sarah's maid servant which she encouraged Abraham to sleep with as she though she would have no children to carry on Abram's name) was not chosen. And even though Esau was the true firstborn God made it clear form the way the two were born that his choice would be Jacob. Not that there was anything special about them in the womb, but that God was showing as Paul said: Romans 9:15 "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy."
God knows that it is the flesh's tendency to get puffed up and see itself as better than everybody else. And God was careful then not to allow any flesh to be able to boast as though they were alive when in fact we all died with Adam when Adam sinned.
But you can see what such a man has told you is based upon wrong understanding of scripture and therefore he cannot be who he claims but is himself being deceived by his yielding his flesh to the desire to think more of himself than necessary, thus empowering Satan to deceive him. Satan is a master chameleon and he turns our own flesh into that same kind of deceptive chameleon if we are not wise to his designs and aware of what to shun as lusts of our flesh.
This can happen to any of us unless we wise up to it by the protective knowledge and understanding of that knowledge from God's Holy Inspired Word.
