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.

10/15/2024

Isaiah 14:1-32 The Day of the Lord Gives Them Rest From: Sorrow, Fear & Bandages

 

The Day of the Lord Gives Them Rest From: Sorrow, Fear & Bandages

Isaiah 14:1-32                                The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob & will [still] choose Israel & [will put] them in their own land. And the [foreigners] shall be joined with them & they shall [cling] to the house of Jacob. 

And the people shall take them & bring them to their place & the house of Israel shall possess them as servants & handmaids, in the land of the Lord. And they shall take them [captive, of whom they had been their] captives. And they shall rule over their oppressors.

[Isaiah 60:14-15 Also, the sons of [those who] afflicted you shall come bending [down] to you & all [those who] despised you, shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. 

And they shall call you, The City of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. [In that,] you had been [abandoned] & hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you [of continual excellence,] a joy of many generations.] 

And it shall [happen on] the day that the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow, fear & hard bondage [in which] you were made to serve. That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon & say, How the oppressor & the golden city, [a.k.a. Babylon,] has ceased! 

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked & the scepter of the rulers. He who [struck] the people [with] wrath & continual [whippings] & he, [who] ruled the nations in anger, is [now] persecuted & none [interfere with it.] The whole earth is at rest & [peaceful] & they break into singing. 

[Yes,] the fir trees rejoice at you & the cedars of Lebanon, saying Since, you are [cut] down, no [lumberman has] come up against us. Hell [has] moved from [below] to meet you, at your coming.

It stirs up the dead for you, even all the [leaders] of the earth, it has raised up all the kings of the nations, from their thrones. They all shall speak & say to you, [Have] you also become weak [like] we [are?] [Have] you become [similar] to us?

Your [magnificence] is brought down to the grave & the sound of your [bass] viols. The [worms have] spread [out] under you & the worms cover you. How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you, who weaken the nations, are cut down to the ground! 

For you had said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven & I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation [on] the sides of the north. 

[Psalm 48:1-2 Great is the Lord & greatly to be praised in the City of our God, in the mountain of His holiness. Beautiful for [its] situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, [a.k.a. Jerusalem,] on the sides of the north, the City of the great King.] 

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High. 

[2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, [until] there first comes a falling away & that man of sin [is] revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes & exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped. So, that he sits as God in the temple of God, [declaring] himself that he is God.] 

Yet, you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. [Luke 10:15 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.] 

[Those who] see you shall [gaze & reflect] upon you, saying, Is this the man, [who] made the earth tremble & the kingdoms shake; that made the world [like] a wilderness & destroyed [its] cities; [who didn't open] [& let loose] his prisoners [to their] house? 

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house. But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch & [like the garment] of [those who] were slain & thrust through with a sword & go down to the [grave, covered with] stones, [like a corpse walked on,] under feet. 

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed the land & slain your people. The [descendents of those who do evil,] shall never be [famous.] 

Prepare slaughter for his children for the [sin] of their fathers; [so] they don't rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the [surface] of the world with cities. The Lord of Hosts says, For I will rise up against them & cut off from Babylon, [their] name, [those remaining,] son & nephew, says the Lord. 

I will also make it a possession for the [porcupine] & [marshes] of water. And I will sweep it with the [broom] of destruction, says the Lord of Hosts. The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so it shall [happen] & it shall stand as I have [intended.] [Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers & the flower fades: but the Word of our God shall stand forever.]

That I will break the Assyrian in My land & [trample] him under foot upon My mountains. Then shall his yoke & his burden depart from off them & their shoulders. [Micah 5:4-6 And He shall stand & feed [Israel] in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the [Lord's] Name, His God. 

And they shall [remain:] For now He shall be great unto the ends of the earth. And this Man shall be the [Creator of] peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land & when he shall [walk] in our palaces. 

Then we shall raise against him 7 shepherds & 8 [important] men. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword & the land of Nimrod in [its] entrances. [Like this,] He shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when He comes into our land & when He [walks] within our borders.] 

This is the purpose that is [intended] upon the whole earth & this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the Lord of Hosts has [determined it] & who shall [cancel] it? And His hand is stretched out & who shall [return] it back? 

In the year that king Ahaz died, was this burden, [a.k.a. vision.] [Don't] you rejoice, [all of] Palestina, [a.k.a. the Philistines, or Philistia, or Palestine,] because the rod of him, [who struck] you is broken. For out of the serpent's root, shall come forth a [cobra] & its fruit shall be a fiery, flying serpent. 

[Isaiah 30:6 The burden, [a.k.a. vision] of the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble & anguish, from [where] come the: old lion, the viper & the fiery, flying serpent. They will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young [donkeys] & their treasures upon the [company] of camels, to a people, [who] shall not [benefit] them.] 

And the firstborn of the poor shall [eat] & the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine & he shall slay your remnant. Howl, O gate & cry [out,] O city, [all,] you Palestina, are dissolved.

For there shall come from the north a smoke & none shall be [missing, during] his appointed times. Then, what shall [someone] answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, [a.k.a. Jerusalem,] & the poor of His people shall trust in it.