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.

Deuteronomy 29:1-29 Lord God Kept the Israelites Clothes & Sandals from Wearing Out for 40 Years

 

Lord God Kept the Israelites Clothes & Sandals from Wearing Out for 40 Years

Deuteronomy 29:1-29     Deuteronomy the Fifth Book of Moses

These are the words of the covenant [contract] [that] the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children [people] of Israel in the land of Moab. [This is in addition to] the covenant that He had made with them in Horeb [a.k.a. Mt. Sinai.] 

Moses called all [of] Israel & said to them, You have seen all that the Lord [God] did in Egypt before your eyes to Pharaoh, all his servants & all his land. [You have seen] the great temptations, signs & great miracles. 

[Still] the Lord hasn’t given you a heart to [understand,] eyes to see & ears to hear, [until] this day. I have led you 40 years in the wilderness & your clothes [haven’t grown] old upon you & your [shoes haven’t grown] old upon your [feet.] 

You haven’t eaten bread, [nor] drunk wine or strong drink: [so] you might know that I am the Lord your God. When you came into this place, Sihon, [Heshbon’s] king, & Og, [Bashan’s] king, came out to battle against us & we [defeated] them.

We took their land & gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, Gadites & to 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh. Therefore, keep the words of this covenant [contract] & do them, [so] you may prosper in all you do. 

All of you, stand this day before the Lord your God; your [leaders] of your tribes, your elders & officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones & wives, the [strangers] in your camp, from the wood [cutter] to the [person who draws] your water.

[So] that you should enter into the covenant with the Lord your God & into His oath, [that] the Lord your God makes with you this day. [So] He may establish you today for a people [for] Himself, [so] He may be your God, [like] He has said to you & has sworn to Abraham, Isaac & Jacob.

Neither do I make this covenant & oath only with you; but with [those who] stand here with us this day, before the Lord God & also [with those who aren't ] here with us this day. (For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt & how we came through the nations [that] you passed by. 

You have seen their abominations, their idols [of:] wood, stone, silver & gold [that] were among them:) [beware] lest [anyone] among you: man, woman, or family, or tribe, turns away this day from the Lord your God & [goes astray to] serve the gods of these nations.

Lest there should be a root among you that [brings forth bitter & deadly fruit.] [Deuteronomy 11:16 [You pay attention, so] that your heart [isn't] deceived & you [go astray] & serve other gods & worship them.

It shall [happen,] when [someone hears] the words of this curse & [blesses] himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, [even though I follow my own stubborn heart] & add drunkenness to thirst. 

The [Lord’s] anger & His jealousy shall smoke against that man & the Lord will not spare him. All the curses that are written in this book shall [be] upon him & the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. 

The Lord shall separate the evil [from all Israel’s] tribes [for disaster,] according to all the covenant curses written in the Book of the Law. So [future generations] that come after you & strangers [who] come from [distant lands] shall see the plagues on the land & sicknesses [that] the Lord had [put] on it. 

Therefore the whole land is brimstone & salt & burning, [that is unable to be] sown [with seed,] nor [grow] any grass [in it,] like the overthrow of Sodom & Gomorrah, Admah & Zeboim, [that] the Lord overthrew in His anger & His [fury.]

Even all the nations shall say, [Why has] the Lord done this to this land? [What does] the heat of His great anger [mean?]

Then men shall say, Because they have [abandoned] the covenant of the Lord God of their [forefathers, that] He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. For they went [astray] & served other gods & worshiped them. 

Other gods they didn’t know, [that] He hadn’t given to them. The anger of the Lord [grew] against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. 

The Lord [uprooted] them out of their land in anger, [fury] & great indignation & cast them into another land, as it is this day. The secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things revealed belong to us & to our children forever, [so] we may do all the words of this law.