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.

4/28/2023

Deuteronomy 11:1-32 Moses is Speaking to Those Who Have Seen the Lord’s Mighty Acts

 

Moses is Speaking to Those Who Have Seen the Lord’s Mighty Acts

Deuteronomy 11:1-32      Deuteronomy the Fifth Book of Moses

Therefore, you shall love the Lord your God & [always obey] His [responsibilities,] His [mandates,] His [rules] & His Commandments. 

Know this day, I [don’t] speak with your children, [because] they haven’t  known & their eyes haven’t seen the [discipline] of the Lord your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, His [outstretched] arm;

And His miracles, His acts [10 plagues] [that ] He did to Pharaoh, [Egypt’s] king & all [Pharaoh’s] land, in the midst of Egypt. What [the Lord God] did to the army of Egypt, their horses & chariots, [when] He made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you. 

And how the Lord [has] destroyed them to this day & what He did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place.

And what [God] did to Dathan & Abiram, the sons of Eliab, [Reuben’s] son & how the earth opened up [like a mouth] & swallowed them, their households, tents & all [their possessions] up, [where] all Israel [could see.] 

[Numbers 16:12-14 And Mosses sent to call Dathan & Abiram, [Eliab’s] sons, [who] said, We won’t come up. Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk & honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except you [totally] make yourself a prince over us?

[Additionally,] you haven’t brought us into a land that flows with milk & honey, or given us [an] inheritance of fields & vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.]

Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord & [what] He did. Therefore, you shall [obey] all [that] I [command] you this day, [so] you may be strong & go in & [take over] the land, [where] you go to possess it. 

[So,] you may prolong your [life] in the land, [that] the Lord [swore] to your [forefathers] to give to them & to their [descendants.] A land that [flows] with milk & honey. The land, [where] you go in to posses it, isn’t [like] the land of Egypt, from [where] you came out,  where you [sowed] & watered seed [by] foot, [like] a garden of herbs.

But the land, you go to possess [has] hills, valleys & [drinks] water [from] the rain of heaven. A land [that] the Lord your God [cares] for [& His] eyes are always upon it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

It shall [happen,] if you shall diligently [pay attention to the commands I give you today,] to love the Lord your God & to serve Him will all your heart & all your soul, I will give you in [its appropriate] season, the 1st & latter rain in your land, [so] you may gather in your [grain,] wine & oil.

I will send grass for your [livestock] in the fields, so you may eat & be full. [Pay attention, so] your heart [isn’t] deceived & [you go astray] & serve other gods & worship them. 

And then the Lord’s [anger will grow] against you & He [shuts] up the heaven, [so there’s] no rain & the land [doesn’t produce its] fruit & you perish quickly from the good land [that] the Lord [gives] you.

Therefore, you shall lay up these words in your heart & soul & bind them as [symbols] upon your [hands & foreheads,] between your eyes. And you shall teach them [to] your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the [road,] when you [lie] down & when you [rise] up.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your [houses] & upon your gates, [so] you & your children’s days may be multiplied, in the land [that] the Lord [swore] to give your [forefathers, like] the days of heaven upon the earth.

If you shall diligently keep the Commandments [& to do] all I [command] you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways & [hold tight] to Him; then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you & you shall possess greater & mightier nations than yourselves.

Every place the soles of your feet shall [walk] shall be yours. Your [coastal borders] shall be from the wilderness [to] Lebanon & [from] the Euphrates [River to] the [Mediterranean Sea.] 

No man shall be able to stand before you there: for the Lord your God shall [put] the fear & dread of you upon all the land that you shall [walk] upon, as He [has] said to you. [See,] I [put] before you [today] a blessing & a curse.

A blessing, if you obey the Commandments of the Lord your God, [that] I command you this day. A curse, if you won’t obey the Commandments of the. Lord your God [that] I gave you this day, but [go astray] after other gods, [that] you haven’t known.

It [shall happen,] when the Lord your God has brought you into the land [where] you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim & the curse upon Mount Ebal. 

Aren’t they on the other side [of] the Jordan [River] by the [sunset,] in the land of Canaanites, [who] dwell in plains [opposite to] Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

For you shall pass over [the] Jordan [River] to go in & possess & [live] in the land [that] the Lord God [gives] you. You shall [pay attention] to do all the [mandates] & judgments [that] I [put] before you this day.