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

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: Since the Lord had it on my heart to write this blog, 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.

The Lord Tells Abram His Descendants Will Be as Numerous as the Stars

 

The Lord Tells Abram His Descendants Will Be as Numerous as the Stars

Genesis 15:1-21                    The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

After these things, the Word of the Lord [God] came to Abram in a vision, saying, [Don't be fearful,] Abram, because I am your shield & [exceedingly] great reward. Abram [asked] God, What will You give me, [since] I am childless & the [heir] of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Abram said, [See,] You [haven't] given [me a child] & one born in my house, is [my] heir. The Word of the Lord came to [Abram,] saying, This shall not being your heir, & but *[one who comes from] your own [body] shall be your heir. [God brought Abram out] & said, Now, look toward heaven & tell the [amount of] stars, if you [are] able to [count] them. And [God] said, So shall your [descendants] be. [Abram] believed in the Lord & counted it to Him for righteousness.

[Genesis 22:17 That in blessing, I will bless you & in multiplying, I will multiply your [descendants like] the stars of heaven & the sand which is upon the seashore. And your [descendants] shall possess the gate of his enemies.]

The [Lord] said to [Abram,] I am the Lord, [Who] brought you out of Ur of the [Chaldeans,] to give you this land to inherit it. And [Abram] said, Lord God, [how] shall I know that I shall inherit it? And God said to him, Take [& bring] to Me: a heifer & [female] goat & ram [all] 3 years old & a turtledove & young pigeon. [Abram] took all these to [God] & divided them [in the middle] [of the altar] & laid each piece against [each other, except for] the birds, [which] he [didn’t divide.] Abram drove away the [vultures that] came down on the carcases.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram & a [severe] horror of the darkness fell upon [Abram.]  *[The Lord God] said to Abram, Know [for certain] that your [descendants] will be [strangers] in a land that isn't theirs & will serve them & [be afflicted by] them 400 years, but I will judge that nation, whom they serve & afterward, they will [leave] with great [possessions.]

[Exodus 12:35-37 And the children [people] of Israel did according to the word of Moses & they [asked from] the Egyptians: jewels of silver & gold & [clothing.] And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they [granted] to them such things as they required. And [the Israelites plundered] the Egyptians. And the children [people] of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, [with] about 600,000 men & children on foot.]

And you [shall] go to your [forefathers] & will be buried in peace, [at] a good old age. But they shall come [here, a.k.a. Canaan,] again, in the 4th generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet [complete.]

And it [happened,] when the sun went down & it was dark, [Abram] [saw] a smoking furnace, [a.k.a. oven,] & a burning lamp, [a.k.a. torch,] passed between those pieces [of meat.] The same day, the Lord [God] made a covenant, [a.k.a. contract,] with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your [descendants,] from the great River [of] Egypt to the great Euphrates [River,] [the land of the:] Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites & Jebusites.

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