About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

11/27/2022

Genesis 11:1-32 Tower of Babel & Language Confused

 

Tower of Babel & Language Confused

Genesis 11:1-32                     The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

The whole earth [had] one language & one speech. They journeyed from the east & found a plain in the land of Shinar & [lived] there. They said to one another, Let's go & make [bricks] & burn them thoroughly. And they had brick [instead of] stone & they had slime for [mortar.] And they said, Let's go & build us a city & a tower, whose top may reach to heaven. And let's make a name [for] us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

The Lord came down to see the city & tower which the children of men [built.The Lord said, [Look,] the people [are] one & with all one language & [if] they begin to do this now nothing they imagine to do will be [impossible] for them. Let Us go down there & [confuse] their language so that they might not understand one another’s speech. So, the Lord scattered them abroad from there, over the face of all the earth & they [stopped] building the city. Therefore, it is called Babel, because the Lord [confused] the language of all the earth & from there scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

[This is the genealogy] of Shem: Shem was 100 years old & [fathered] Arphaxad 2 years after the flood. After he [fathered] Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years & [fathered] sons & daughters.  Arphaxad lived 35 years & [fathered] Salah  & lived 403 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Salah lived 30 years & [fathered] Eber & lived 403 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Eber lived 34 years & [fathered] Peleg & lived 430 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Peleg lived 30 years & [fathered] Reu & lived 209 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. 

Reu lived 32 years & [fathered] Serug  & lived 207 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Serug lived 30 years & [fathered] Nahor & lived 200 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Nahor lived 29 years & [fathered] Terah & lived 119 years & [fathered] sons & daughters. Terah lived 70 years & [fathered] Abram, Nahor, & Haran. 

Now [this is the genealogy] of Terah: Terah [fathered] Abram, Nahor & Haran. Haran [fathered] Lot. Haran died before his father, Terah, in his [native] land, Ur of the [Chadeans]. [Then,] Abram & Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai & the name of Nahor’s wife [was] Milcah, the daughter of Haran [who was also] the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren & she had no child. 

And Terah took his son, Abram &  Lot, [his grandson, who was] the son of Haran [who was deceased] & his daughter-in-law, Sarai, [who was] his son Abram’s wife & they went [out] from Ur of the [Chaldeans] to go to the land of Canaan & they came to Haran [a city] & dwelt there. [So,] Terah lived 205 years & died in Haran.