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.

12/13/2024

Jeremiah 7:1-34 Thoroughly Change Your Ways & Actions & I Will Allow You to Live Here

 

Thoroughly Change Your Ways & Actions & I Will Allow You to Live Here 

Jeremiah 7:1-34                               The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks]

The Word from the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, Stand in the gate of the Lord's house & proclaim this Word there & say, Hear the Word of the Lord, all you of Judah, [who] enter these gates to worship the Lord. 

The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this, Change] your ways & your [actions] & I will cause you to [live] in this place. [Don't] you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, these are The [temples] of the Lord.

[Micah 3:11 The [leaders of it] judge for [bribes] & [its] priests teach for [pay] & [its] prophets divine for money. [Still,] they will lean upon the Lord & say, Isn't the Lord among us? [No] evil can come upon us.] 

For if you thoroughly [change] your ways & your [actions] & if you thoroughly [deliver justice] between a man & his neighbor. If you [don't] oppress the stranger, the fatherless, the widow & [don't] shed [the] blood of the innocent, in this place & neither [follow] after other gods to your [harm,] then, I will cause you to [live] in this place, in the land that I gave to your [forefathers,] forever & ever. [See,] you trust in lying words, that can't [benefit.] 

[Jeremiah 14:13-14 Then, I said, Ah, Lord God! [Look,] the prophets say to them, You shall not see the sword & neither shall you have famine. But I will give you [certain] peace in this place. 

Then, the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My Name. I [didn't send] them, neither have I commanded them & neither [did I speak] to them. They prophesy to you a false vision & divination, a [worthless] thing & the deceit of their heart.]

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, & burn incense to Baal & [follow] after other gods, whom you [don't] know & come & stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name & say, We are [called] to do all these abominations? 

[Ezekiel 23:39 For when they had [sacrificed] their children to their idols, then they came the same day into My sanctuary to [defile] it. And [look,] they have done [this] in the midst of [My] house.] 

[Has] this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of [thieves] in your eyes? [Look,] even I have seen it, says the Lord. But you go now to My place, [that] was in Shiloh, where I [put] My Name, at the [beginning] & see what I did to it, [because of] the wickedness of My people, Israel. 

[Psalm 78:58-62 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places & moved Him to jealousy with their [carved] images. When God heard this, He was [furious] & greatly [loathed] Israel.

So that He [abandoned] the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [that] He placed among men & delivered His strength into captivity & His glory into the enemy's hand. He also gave His people over to the sword & was [angry] with His inheritance.] 

The Lord says, And now, because you have done all these [deeds] & I [spoke] to you, rising up early [to warn,] speaking, but you [didn't listen.] And I called you, but you [didn't answer.]

[Jeremiah 25:4-7 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants, the prophets, rising early & sending them; but you haven't [paid attention,] nor [leaned] your ear to hear. 

They said, Everyone now [return] again from his evil [ways] & from the evil of your [actions] & [live] in the land that the Lord has given to you & to your [forefathers] forever & ever. 

And [don't] go after other gods to serve & worship them & [don't] provoke Me to anger with the works [made by] your hands & I will do you no [harm.] Yet, you haven't [paid attention] to Me; [so] that you might provoke Me to anger with whe works [made by] your hands, to your own [harm.]

Therefore, I will do to this house, which is called by My Name, [in which] you trust & to the place [that] I gave to you & to your [forefathers, like] I have done to Shiloh. [1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought & Israel was [defeated] & every man fled to his tent. And there was a very [large] slaughter; for 30,000 footmen of Israel fell there.] 

And I will cast you out of My sight, [like] I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole [family] of Ephraim. Therefore, [don't] pray for this people & neither lift up [an out] cry, nor [prayers] for them. Neither make [prayers on their behalf] to Me: for I won't hear you.

[Exodus 32:8-10 They have turned [astray] quickly [from] the [ways that] I have commanded them. They have made [themselves] a [molded] calf & have worshiped it & have sacrificed [to it] & said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, [that] have brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 

And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people & [look,] it is a stiffnecked, [a.k.a. stubborn] people. Therefore, now leave Me alone, [so] that My wrath may [grow] hot against them & I might consume them. And I will make a great nation of you.] 

[Don't] you see what they do in the cities of Judah & in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood & the fathers [start] the fire & the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven & to pour out drink offerings to other gods, [so] that they may provoke Me to anger. 

The Lord says, Do they provoke Me to anger? Don't they provoke themselves to the [shame on] their own faces? Therefore, the Lord God says [this; Look,] My anger & My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon: man, [animals,] trees of the field & the fruit of the ground. 

And it shall burn & shall not be [put out.] The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this;] Put your burnt offerings [with] your sacrifices & eat [meat.] [Amos 5:25-27 Have you offered to Me sacrifices & offerings in the wilderness 40 years, O house of Israel? 

But you have [carried] the tabernacle of your: Molock, Chiun, your images & the star of your [gods,] which you made [for] yourselves. Therefore, I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the Lord, Whose Name is The God of Hosts.] 

For I [didn't speak] to your [forefathers,] nor command them [on] the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt [about] burnt offerings or sacrifices. But [I] commanded them this thing, sayings, Obey My voice & I will be your God & you shall be My people. And you [follow] in all the ways that I have commanded you, [so] that it may [go] well [for] you. 

But they [didn't pay attention,] nor [leaned] their ear, but [followed] in the [advice] & the imagination of their evil heart & went backward & not forward. Since the day that your [forefathers] came [foreword] out of the land of Egypt, [until] this day, I have even sent to you all My servants, the prophets, daily rising up early [to warn] & sending them. 

[Still,] they [didn't pay attention] to Me, nor [did they lean] their ear, but [stubbornly] hardened their neck & they did worse than their [forefathers.] [Matthew 23:37-39 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you, [who] kill the prophets & stone [those who] are sent to you. 

How often I would have gathered your children together, even [like] a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, & you wouldn't! [Look,] your house is left to you desolate. For I say to you, You shall not see Me, [from now on, until] you shall say, Blessed is He, [Who] comes in the Name of the Lord.] 

Therefore, you shall speak all these words to them; but they won't [listen] to you. You shall also call to them, but they won't answer you. But you shall say to them, This is a nation that [doesn't] obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction & truth [has] perished & [truth] is cut off from their mouth. 

[Revelation 3:9-13 [See,] I will make [those] of the synagogue of Satan, [who] say they are Jews & aren't, but lie; I will make them come & worship [in front of] your feet & to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My Word [with] patience. 

I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to [test those who] dwell upon the earth. [Watch,] I come quickly & hold [tight to what] you have, [so] that no man takes your crown. 

I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, [for those who] overcome & he shall no [longer] go out & I will write upon him the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, [that] comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write upon him, My new Name.]

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem & [throw] it away & take up [mourning] on high places; for the Lord has rejected & [abandoned] the generation of His wrath. For the children [people] of Judah have done evil in My sight, says the Lord. They have [put] their abominations in the house, which is called by My Name, to [defile] it. 

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons & their daughters in the fire; [that] I [didn't] command them, neither [did] it come into My heart. 

Therefore, [watch,] the days come, says the Lord, that it shall no [longer] be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Tophet, [until there's] no place [remaining.] 

And the [corpses] of this people shall be meat for the [birds] of heaven & for the [animals] of the earth. And none shall [frighten] them away. Then, I will cause the [sound] of [happiness] & gladness to cease [from] the bridegroom & the bride, from the cities of Judah & the streets of Jerusalem. For the land shall be desolate. 

[Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall no [longer] shine at all in you. And the voice of the bridegroom & the bride, shall no [longer] be heard at all in you. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, [but] by your sorceries, all nations were deceived.]