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.

6/22/2024

Psalm 106:1-48 Book# 4 of Psalms

 

Psalm 106:1-48            Book# 4 of Psalms [in Smaller Chunks]

O give thanks to the Lord & praise you the Lord. For He is God & His mercy endures forever. [Jeremiah 33:11-12 The [sound] of joy & gladness & the voice of the bridegroom & the bride. [Their] voices shall say, Praise the Lord of Hosts: for the Lord is good & His mercy endures forever. And of [those] shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the [Lord's] house.

For I will cause [those] of the land [held in] captivity to return, as at the [beginning,] says the Lord. The Lord of Hosts [says this;] In this place & in all [its] cities, which [are] desolate, without man & without [animals,] shall again be a habitation [for] shepherds [having] their sheep lie down.] 

Who can [express] the mighty acts of the Lord? [Genesis 12:17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh & his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, [a.k.a. Sarah, the wife of] Abram, [a.k.a. Abraham.]

Who can [declare] all His praise? Blessed are [those who] keep [justice] & he [who] does [what is righteous] at all times. Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that You [delivered] to Your people. 

O visit me with Your Salvation, [so] that I may see the good of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation & that I may [glorify] with Your inheritance. [Psalm 119:132 [Lord,] look upon me & be merciful to me, [like] You used to do to those [who] love Your Name.] 

We have sinned with our [forefathers] & have committed [sins] & have done wickedly. [Exodus 20:4-6 Thou shall not make [for yourselves] any [carved] image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth [below,] or that is in the water under the earth. 

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a Jealous God, visiting the [sin] of the children [people until] the 3rd & 4th generation of [those who] hate Me. And [showing] mercy to 1,000's of [those who] love Me.] 

Our [forefathers didn't understand] Your wonders in Egypt. They [didn't remember] the multitude of Your mercies; but [provoked] Him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. [Exodus 14:10-12 And when Pharaoh drew [near,] the children [people] of Israel lifted up their eyes & [saw] the Egyptians marched after them. 

And they were [very] afraid & the children [people] of Israel cried out to the Lord. And they said to Moses, Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness, because there were no graves in Egypt? 

[For what reason,] have you dealt [like this] with us, to carry us [forward] out of Egypt? [Didn' we tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, [so] that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.]

[Still,] He saved them for His Name's sake, [so] He might make His mighty power known. [Exodus 9:14-16 For I will at this time, send all My plagues upon your heart & upon your servants & your people; [so] that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth. 

For now, I will stretch out My hand, [so] that I will [strike] you & your people with pestilence & you shall be cut off from the earth. And [indeed,] for this very [reason,] I have raised you up, [in order] to show you My power & that My Name may be declared throughout the earth.]

Also, He rebuked the Red Sea & it was dried up: so He led them through the depths, [like] through the wilderness. [Exodus 14:21-22 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea & the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night & made the sea dry land & the waters were divided. 

And the children [people] of Israel went into the midst of the [Red] Sea upon the dry ground & the waters were a wall to them on their right hand & on their left.]

And He saved them from the hand of him, [who] hated them & redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies. There wasn't one of them left. Then, they believed His Words & they sang His praise. 

[Exodus 14:30-31 [Like this,] the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians & Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel saw that great work [that] the Lord did upon the Egyptians & the people feared [respected] the Lord & believed the Lord & His servant, Moses.]

They soon [forgot] His works & they [didn't wait] for His [advice;] but exceedingly lusted in the wilderness & [tested] God in the desert. And He gave them their request; but sent [emptiness] into their [souls.]

[Numbers 11:31 -32 And there a wind went [out] from the Lord & brought quails from the sea & let them fall by the camp, [like] it were a day's journey on [every] side [around] the camp & [like] it [was] 2 cubits high upon the [surface] of the earth. 

And the people stood up all that day & night & they gathered the quails. He [who] gathered the least, gathered 10 homers & they spread them all [around] for themselves [around] the camp.]

Also, they envied Moses in the camp & Aaron, the [Lord's] saint. [Numbers 16:2-3 And they rose up against Moses, with [some] of the children [people] of Israel & 250 princes [from] the assembly, famous men of [distinction] in the congregation. 

And they gathered themselves together against Moses & Aaron & said to them, You take too much upon  [yourselves, since] all the congregation are holy, everyone of them. [For what reason,] then [do] you lift yourselves above the [Lord's] congregation?] 

The earth opened & swallowed up Dathan & covered the company of Abiram. And the fire was kindled in their company & the flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb & worshiped the [molded] image. 

[Exodus 32:3-5 And all the people [broke] off the golden earrings in their ears & brought them to Aaron. And he received them [from] their hand & fashioned it with an [engraving] tool, after he had made it a [molded] calf. 

And they said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made [a] proclamation & said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.] 

[Like this,] they changed their glory into the [shape] of an ox that eats grass. [Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter My judgments against them [about] all their wickedness, [those] who have [abandoned] Me & have burned incense to other gods & worshiped the works [made] of their own hands.]

They [forgot] God, their Savior, [Who] had done great things in Egypt: wondrous works in the land of Ham & [terribly awesome] things by the Red Sea. Therefore, He said that He would destroy them [if] Moses, His chosen, hadn't stood [in front of] Him in the [torn relationship,] to turn away His [fury,] lest He should destroy them.

[Yes,] they despised the pleasant land & they [didn't] believe His Word, but [grumbled] in their tents & [didn't pay attention] to the voice of the Lord. [Numbers 14:2-3 And all the children [people] of Israel [grumbled] against Moses & Aaron. 

And the whole congregation said to them, [We wanted] God, that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would [rather] God, that we had died in this wilderness! And [why] has the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, [so] that our wives & our children [are] prey? [Wouldn't] it not [be] better for us to return to Egypt?] 

Therefore, He lifted up His hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness & to also overthrow their [descendants] among the nations & to scatter them in the lands. They also joined themselves to Baal Peor & ate the sacrifices of the dead.

[Numbers 25:2-3 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods & the people [ate] & bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined [itself] to Baal Peor & the anger of the Lord [grew] against Israel.] 

[By this,] they provoked Him to anger with their inventions & the plague [broke out] upon them. Then, Phinehas stood up & [delivered] judgment & so the plague was [stopped.] And that was [considered for Phinehas as] righteousness [for] all generations forever more.

They also angered Him at the waters of strife, so that it went [poorly for] Moses for their sakes; because they provoked [Moses'] spirit, so that he [spoke impulsively] with his [mouth.]

[Numbers 20:10-12 And Moses & Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock & he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand & he [struck] the rock twice with his rod & the water came out abundantly & the congregation & their [animals] drank. 

And the Lord [spoke] to Moses & Aaron, Because you [didn't] believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel. Therefore, you shall not bring this congregation into the land [that] I have promised them.]

They didn't destroy the nations, [about] whom the Lord commanded them. [Judges 1:21 And the children [people] of Benjamin didn't drive out the Jebusites, [who] inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites [live] with the children [people] of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.]

But were [mixed] among the heathen & learned their works. And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. [Yes,] they sacrificed their sons & their daughters to [demons] & shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons & daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. 

And the land was polluted with [bloodshed.] They were defiled [like this] with their own works & went [like unfaithful harlots] with their own inventions. 

[Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves & come. Draw near together, you [who have] escaped [from] the nations. They have no knowledge, [who put] up the wood of their [carved] image & pray to a god that cannot save.] 

Therefore, the [fury] of the Lord [grew] against His people, [in that] He [loathed] His own inheritance. And He gave them into the hand of the heathen. [Judges 2:14-15 And they [abandoned] the Lord God of their [forefathers, Who] brought them out of the land of Egypt & followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were [around] them. And bowed themselves to them & provoked the Lord to anger. And they [abandoned] the Lord & served Baal & Ashtaroth.]

And [those who] hated them, ruled over them. Also, their enemies oppressed them & they were brought under [the control of] their hand. Many times, He [delivered] them; but they provoked Him with their [advice] & were brought low for their [sins.]

[Judges 2:16-17 [However,] the Lord raised up judges, [who] delivered them out of the hand of those who [plundered] them. And [still] they wouldn't [pay attention] to their judges, but went [like an unfaithful harlot] after other gods & bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly [from] the [path] their [forefathers] walked, [of] obeying the commandments of the Lord, but they didn't [do] so.] 

[Still,] when He heard their [out] cry, He [paid attention to] their affliction. [Judges 3:9 And when the children [people] of Israel cried [out] to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer [for] the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel, [Kenaz's] son, Caleb's younger brother.] 

And He remembered His covenant [contract] for them & [withdrew,] according to the multitude of His mercies. [Judges 2:18 And when the Lord raised up judges [for] them, then the Lord was with the judge & delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For it [sorrowed] the Lord, because of their groanings, [because of those who] oppressed them & [harassed] them.]

He also made them to be pitied [by] all those [who] carried them [away as] captives. [2 Chronicles 30:9 For if you [return] again to the Lord, your brethren & your children shall find compassion before [those who] lead them [away] captive. So, that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious & merciful & will not turn His face away from you, if you return to Him.]

O Lord our God, Save us & gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to Your Holy Name & to triumph in Your praise. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the Lord.