#Naaman

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10/07/2022

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: Naaman is the name of the commander who Elisha heals.  When Naaman offers Elisha a gift for healing him, Elisha declines by saying "Naa, man," which is like "Nah, man," (as in "no"), but spelled like Naaman's name, which is Naaman.

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2 Kings 5: Naaman Is Suggested To Visit Elisha About His Leprosy

1 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.

2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 

3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 

5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing. 

6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”

8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 

9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 

10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 

12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 

14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.

17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord. 

18 But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”

19 “Go in peace,” Elisha said.

After Naaman had traveled some distance, 

20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

21 So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.

22 “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”

23 “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. 

24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.

25 When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?”

“Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.

26 But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? 

27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.

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Daily Bible Reading 03 July 2023

Daily Bible Reading: 2 Kings 5-8  2 Kings 5:13-14 (NKJV)  And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more than, when he says to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?” So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the…

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The Unethical Understudy

Neal Pollard One wonders if perhaps Elisha saw Gehazi as being to him what Elisha was to Elijah, an heir-apparent to his own work. Indeed, Gehazi had been with him from at least since the miracle with the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:12), witnessing God’s providential care of the prophet, seeing Elisha raise the dead (4:32ff), and now the curing of Naaman’s leprosy (5:1-14). Gehazi had seen God’s…

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Living Gratefully

In the first reading, we hear the end of the story of Naaman, a Syrian general, who has just been cured of his leprosy. When Naaman comes to Israel he encounters the prophet Elisha. Naaman has come bearing all manner of riches and gifts, but Elisha wants none of it. He simply instructs Naaman to wash seven times in the Jordan River. Pretty simple and ordinary, yes? (more…) “”

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ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) - Production Design by Naaman Marshall

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Sermon for Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (10/9/22)

Primary Text | 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c

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Dear People of God,

            Naaman is to learn that salvation is from the God of Israel. Though it takes some time for it to sink in for him. It starts with a little girl. It says, “Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife” (2 Kgs 5:2). Here we see God has made his first move. What the Arameans meant for evil God used for good. For it wasn’t just any young girl they took captive, but a young girl from the land of Israel—the chosen people of God. It doesn’t say how old she is, just that she was young. In order to be a servant I would guess her age was somewhere around kindergarten to early elementary school. One way or another, she knew of Elisha, the prophet of Israel, the man of God, the one whom God’s Spirit was operative through at this time. In view of healing Naaman’s leprosy and bringing him to faith, God put God’s word in this little girl’s mouth. Clearly, this girl believed God was who he says he is. Yes, even a young girl can be God’s instrument in bringing about salvation to people who are without him. God’s word does not depend on the person, but on God’s promise—which is powerful and effective. God’s word does things. Speech may seem so little and so ordinary. But it is primarily and ordinarily through words spoken by human beings, spoken by the young and by the old, spoken by people of any gender, that God is at work reconciling the world to himself through Jesus Christ.

The young girl said to her mistress, “If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy (2 Kgs 5:3). This led to Naaman going to meet the prophet Elisha at the entrance of Elisha’s house. But things don’t go as he expected. Instead of Elisha himself coming out to meet Naaman, Elisha sends him a messenger. Instead of Elisha waving his hand over the spot and his leprosy being cured, the messenger says, “Go, wash in the Jordan River seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean” (2 Kgs 5:10). Naaman is angry. He’s mad. He rejects what he was told. He felt it was an insult the prophet Elisha himself did not come out to meet him, why this messenger? And, why the Jordan River? Why not the rivers back in his home country? Naaman stomps away in a tantrum because he didn’t get his way. But before it’s too late, his servants come up to him. They say to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” (2 Kgs 5:13). To everyone’s surprise, Naaman is persuaded. You never know when someone will go from angrily rejecting God to having a change of heart. That teaches us to not give up on those people in our lives who are still in need of God’s salvation. So Naaman goes to the Jordan River, he washes himself in it seven times. And behold, the leprosy is gone, his skin is as new as the skin of a young boy. More importantly, his heart was changed. He returned to Elisha, the man of God, and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel” (1 Kgs 5:15). This is huge. Naaman was from what we today would call Syria. He was not a child of Israel. He was a foreigner. Through this whole ordeal the LORD taught Naaman that the LORD alone is God. Not the gods he grew up with in Damascus or Syria, nor any of the sham-gods in the other nations of the world. Naaman learned, the LORD, Yahweh, the God of Israel, is the true and only God.

Starting with the young girl, then Naaman’s wife, then the messenger of Elisha, then Naaman’s own servants, God put his word into Naaman’s ears. This is still God’s common practice to send people to speak on his behalf in the world. As Christians, we are called not only to speak about God, but to speak for God. On his behalf. He does not ask us to speak with uncertainty, he asks us to speak with confidence. What God would have us know is clear as day. Jesus Christ died and was raised for sinners. God does not lie. Not only does God continue to use people to speak salvation into the world, but like Naaman’s experience, God continues to use water to bring about salvation. Namely, the word in the water that we call baptism. As Lutherans, we echo the scriptures, that baptism is a grace-filled water of life. It is a bath of rebirth in the Holy Spirit, cleansing us from our sins. Now, like Naaman was at first enraged, this angers very many people. Why not something more impressive? Why not something more strenuous? Wouldn’t it be cooler if God had us go on a Vision Quest to get to know him? Alas, it is not up to us, but up to God on how he has chosen to reveal himself, how he chooses to draw people to himself. Instead of having us perform some impressive feat to be saved, God is the one who does salvation to us—and he is the one who does everything for our salvation. He puts his promise in the water of baptism. Last week when I baptized Reba and Edmund you may have seen me be the one to pour the water and speak the word of God over them. But I was just God’s instrument. It was God himself who baptized them, who spoke the word of promise into their ears, who poured the water over their heads. It was God who gave them their faith in Jesus Christ. From outward appearances, it was just a bit of water and a few words spoken—not very impressive looking. But it was the power of God at work, a power that upturns all our expectations—the very power of the gospel.

The God of Israel reveals himself to you in Jesus Christ. Similar to Naaman when he had his leprosy, we are a colony of lepers. The skin disease runs deep. Yet God sends his messenger to you and says, “Wash, and be clean.” You were washed, you were made holy, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God (1 Cor. 6:11). For you are indeed washed in the waters of baptism, your sins are forgiven you. You are made clean by God’s gracious promise. You have God’s promise through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in your ears. His promise to save you, to rescue you. Even, to rescue you from yourself. There is no other god in all the earth except this one. You belong to him and he belongs to you.

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Nov 6th Prophecy Truth & Healing: Healing Truths

Nov 6th Prophecy Truth & Healing: Healing Truths

Full Resource Nov 6th Healing Truths Praying for Truth If you would like to support my work, please give to my gofundme for my D. Min in Creative Writing or in an exciting new prospect become a Patron for only $3 a month! 2 Kings 5:1-15a Elisha heals Naaman, a foreigner and leperMatt 8:2-3 Jesus heals a leperPsalm 41 Call to Worship (based on Psalm 41)Bless is the Lord, the God of IsraelGod…

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Photos from the POTO Middle East/European tour's reopening in Sofia. Photos feature Nadim Naaman as the Phantom, Bridget Costello as Christine, and Dougie Carter as Raoul. Photos by Victoria Vucheva, taken from here (x).

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Bridget Costello as Christine, from the Middle East Tour.

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The Romanian / Norwegian / Greek / Middle East + European Tour version is really starting to hit many countries and cities now. Along with some photos of the current cast (from the respective webpages I have linked to underneath), here's a complete overview to where it has played so far, and where it will play in 2024-2025 (*):

JAN 2015: Teatrul National de Opereta, Budapest, ROMANIA. This was the prototype, directed by Stephen Barlow and designed by Andrew Riley. Leading trio was Adrian Nour, Irina Ioana Baiant and Florian Ristei, and it was performed in Romanian.

SEPT 2018 - MARCH 2019: Folketeateret, Oslo, NORWAY. This was a much updated version of the original Romanian production, with new costumes, and revamped sets and effects. Leading trio was Espen Grjotheim, Mira Ormala / Astrid Giske and Carl Lindquist, and it was performed in Norwegian.

JAN - MAR 2020: Thessaloniki Concert Hall and Christmas Theatre in Athens, GREECE. This was pretty much the Oslo production, but with some changes for tourability. From Greece on it has only been performed in English, regardless of the location. The original leading trio in Greece was Ben Forster, Celinde Schoenmaker / Amy Manford and Nadim Naaman. The production closed earlier than announced due to Covid.

FEB - MARCH 2023: Christmas Theatre in Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Hall, GREECE. Back in Greece, still in English, still an international cast, even more set and costume changes. This time the leading trio was Tim Howar, Harriet Jones / Georgia Wilkinson and Nadim Naaman.

OCT - DEC 2023: The Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Continuing most of what was the case in Greece, except Nadim Naaman took over the role of the Phantom from Tim Howar, and Dougie Carter took over as Raoul. Was now dubbed "The Middle East Tour". It was the first time a full-scale production of Phantom of the Opera was done in Saudi Arabia.

FEB - MARCH 2024: Dubai Opera, Dubai. Same cast and overall set-up as Riyadh. This production followed in the footsteps of the World Tour (original version), visiting Dubai in 2019.

APRIL 2024: National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BULGARIA. Same cast and overall set-up as Riyadh and Dubai. This was, I think, the first time a city has housed two different non-replica productions. Not at the same time, mind you, as this version touring has meant the local productions are now allowed to perform for some time. This was at least what was announced from the producers in Bulgaria, Serbia and the Czech Republic. Curious.

AUG - SEPT. 2024: National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BULGARIA. The production has announced its return to Sofia this autumn. This due to the sold-out initial run.

OCT 2024: Sagros Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. The production has announced a run there from October 15-27, 2024. A concert version has previously been performed in Portugal, but it will be the first time a full-scale production is done.

NOV - DEC 2024: Musical Theater Basel, Switzerland. The production has announced a run there from Nov. 6 to Dec 22, 2024. The original Swiss production 1995-1997 did a hardcore thing of perfoming in both German and English. It will therefore not be the first time POTO is performed there, nor the first time it is performed in English. But it is the first time this exact version visits, and the 1995-1997 one was the original version.

FEB - MARCH 2025: Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp, Belgium. The production has announced a run there from Feb. 6 to March 7, 2025. The original Belgian production ran from 1999-2000, and was performed in the local language, but it will be the first time it is performed in English. It will as such also be the 10th anniversary for this specific touring version, as it premiered in Romania in January 2015.

MARCH 2025: Kongresove Centrum, Prague, Czech Republic. The production has announced a run there from March 19-27, 2025. This means the local production 'Fantom Opery' at Goja Music Hall has been paused. According to the official website the Phantom will be Nadim Naaman, the role of Christine will be shared between Georgia Wilkinson and Bridget Costello, and Raoul will be Dougie Carter.

(*) More dates will likely follow. Kuwait was announced some time back, but cannot be found anywhere now. Also, the local Serbian production announced a break because another version was visiting, so I won't be surprised if Belgrade is added to the list later on.

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