Monday, June 18, 2012

Eis A Asa, Becoming An Asa


June 2, 2010 I spoke "eis a asa".

At the time I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I hoped that it did mean something and that I would at some point come to an understanding of what it meant.


G1519
εἰς
eis
ice
A primary preposition; to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases.: - [abundant-] ly, against, among, as, at, [back-] ward, before, by, concerning, + continual, + far more exceeding, for [intent, purpose], fore, + forth, in (among, at unto, -so much that, -to), to the intent that, + of one mind, + never, of, (up-) on, + perish, + set at one again, (so) that, therefore (-unto), throughout, till, to (be, the end, -ward), (here-) until (-to), . . . ward, [where-] fore, with. Often used in composition with the same general import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (literally or figuratively.

G760
Ἀσά
Asa
Thayer Definition:
Asa = “physician, or cure”
1) son of Abijah and king of Judah
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: of Hebrew origin H609

Asa
ā´sa (אסא, 'āṣā', “healer”; Ἀσά, Asá):
(1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, or rather grandmother, was daughter of Abishalom (Absalom) (1Ki_15:1). The first ten years of his reign were prosperous and peaceful (2Ch_14:1). He introduced many reforms, such as putting away the sodomites or male prostitutes, removing idols from holy places, breaking down altars, pillars and Asherim. He even deposed the “queen mother” because of her idolatrous practices, and of the image which she had made for Asherah (1Ki_15:12; 2Ch_14:3). Though the king himself, in the main, was a zealous reformer, his subjects did not always keep pace with him (1Ki_15:17). With an army of 580,000 he repelled an attack of Zerah, the Ethiopian, and routed him completely at Mareshah in the lowlands of Judah (2Ch_14:6). Directed and encouraged by Azariah the prophet, he carried on a great revival. Having restored the great altar of burnt offering in the temple, he assembled the people for a renewal of their covenant with Yahweh. On this occasion 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep were offered in sacrifice. For the next twenty years there was apparently great prosperity and peace throughout his kingdom, but in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, Judah was attacked by Baasha, king of Israel, at all times hostile to Judah (1Ki_15:32). Baasha continued to encroach and finally fortified Ramah as a frontier fortress. Asa, faint-hearted, instead of putting his entire trust in Yahweh, made an alliance with Ben-hadad, of Damascus. The Syrian king, in consideration of a large sum of money and much treasure from the temple at Jerusalem, consented to attack the northern portion of Baasha's territory. It was at this favorable moment that Asa captured Ramah, and with the vast building material collected there by Baasha, he built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah (1Ki_15:16-22). This lack of faith in Yahweh was severely criticized by Hanani the prophet. Asa, instead of listening patiently to this prophet of God, was greatly offended and enraged and Hanani was put in prison (2Ch_16:1-10). Three years later, Asa was attacked by gout or some disease of the feet. Here again he is accused of lack of faith, for “he sought not to Yahweh, but to the physicians” (2Ch_16:12). Having ruled forty-one years, he died and was buried with great pomp in a tomb erected by himself in the city of David, i.e. Jerusalem. On the whole his reign was very successful, but it is sad to chronicle that as the years rolled on he became less and less faithful to Yahweh and His law.
(2) A son of Elkanah, a Levite, who dwelt in one of the villages of the Netophathites (1Ch_9:16).

Interesting for sure.

More study required!

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

NLT For Me?!

I think I've linked to everything I can find online relating to the NLT and it keeps paying off. A month ago I saw something about a free Bible

NLT-1st-edition-celebration-edition-300-Bible-giveaway/

 I signed up, and sure enough, I got one!

That makes the third NLT Bible I have been given!




The first time I rescued some Bibles that got lost in transit from Operation Worship. They were supposed to be shipped to soldiers over sees, but the box got damaged and ended up at the unclaimed freight center in Georgia. From there an eBay seller bought them on a pallet with a gazillion other books, and I subsequently bought them on eBay.

I had never heard of Operation Worship before. I contacted them and we made arrangements to return their Bibles. I got to know them better and ended up with a case of their Army Bibles for hand outs (purchased). They had a contest and I ended up winning a NOTW OW shirt and an NLT Study Bible.





That was the first one.

Next, I got to partake in an exorcism, my first...

... that is a story all by itself!

The young lady involved later gave me her NLT Life Application Study Bible.

That was the second one.

From there I started looking up all the NLT stuff online I could find.

http://www.newlivingtranslation.com/

http://www.nltblog.com/

http://www.facebook.com/NewLivingTranslation

http://www.tyndale.com/blog/

http://www.facebook.com/TyndaleHouse

With all the news coming in, I received a link to free ebooks. That linked me to the BEST Christian bookstore and resource online- http://www.christianbook.com/

They have THE BEST prices online, period. They have stuff cheaper than eBay!

Click on eBooks, all eBooks, sort by price, Ascending, and you end up with a list that looks like this

All of them that are priced $0.00 are indeed FREE!

And the list changes at least every week.

I found all those freebies and Christian Book.com all because of the NLT Bible and Tyndale Publishers.

Then, I get my third free NLT Bible! It is 2776 of 3000. How cool is that?!

I admire the NLT for its ease in reading. It's like have someone who perfectly understands greek and can speak in plain American english reading the Bible to you.

With that being said, I could be led to believe that God wants me to understand His Word so He keeps giving me Bibles (hint, hint!).

One more cool NLT link; they have an online interkinear

http://nltinterlinear.com/

Check it out.

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