1 Chronicles 15 – 19

Verse 15:1 talks about King David’s passion:

David founded the city of David as his capital and built his palaces there. But in his zeal to rebuild Jerusalem and build his palaces, He prepared a place for the covenant chest of God in a tent adjacent to the palace.

Again we see a differentiation between the city of David and Jerusalem, again I am not sure why but here it is again.

Notice he rebuilds the city and his palace before building a place for God. For someone whose focus early on seems to be “upwards” this always seemed odd. But as we see he eventually gets around to it only to have God hold him off to a later generation. One of the reasons that has been given other places is the blood on David’s hands from war. If you think about it since the Messiah was tied to David and not his father Jesse or son Solomon we can understand why the Jewish people expected a great warrior and not a humble servant in Jesus.

Verse 16:3 has an interpretation question I wanted to look at:

 He gave a loaf of bread, a date roll,^* and a raisin cake to every man and woman in Israel.

Usually these notes are highlighted by a hyperlink from the source I copy from and looks very ugly, but I wanted to note the “*” and the word “date roll” and how it was interpreted. The Voice says the “meaning is unclear” and we look at other interpretations to wonder what’s going on. The Hebrew word they are attempting to interpret is “’eshpār” which is only seen one other place.

We get into a place where non-believers and KJV only says how can you trust anything you read in the Bible. First this is a fallacy since we are talking some kind of food and not some significant theological point, so with most versions of the Bible I believe we are safe. With that said I will point out some “new age” crap is creeping into these newer versions of the Bible, I will pick on The Message this time and The Lord’s Prayer.

Verse 6:10 is normally interpreted as “Bring about Your kingdom.  Manifest Your will here on earth,  as it is manifest in heaven.” The KJV is the traditional “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” But The Message reads “Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what’s best— as above, so below.” Not much different between the Voice and the KJV, but you see the subtitle difference between The Message’s interpretation?

“As above, so below” is the wording that is so wrong. It’s really being highlighted in today’s pop culture with a move bearing the same words as its name. It initially became famous in from the demonic Baphomet pointing to heaven and hell. This is when those who question interpretations really get credence. Research this and I believe you will see Luciferian “new age” beliefs and sayings creeping into scriptures. While I am very hesitant on questioning an interpretation since they are rigorously checked by people much smarter than me, but this one seems odd.

Sorry for the tangent and not focusing on the reading but that one verse reminded me of this discrepancy in The Message and I wanted to bring that forward. Does that mean you can’t have faith in the Bible? Does it mean all of Christianity is a false religion? No way on either! What this does show is how we need to be vigilant in our study, not accepting anything as Gospel unless we are sure. I will say the video I watched made sure the preacher reading The Message’s version of the Lord’s Prayer was slowed down to make him sound evil when reading those words, so there is a bunch on manipulation of the details everywhere, my warning is be cautious and diligent in your studies, especially of newer interpretations of the Bible.