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Good question. Perhaps because they are not really true born again Spirit led Christians?
This verse sure didn't help
2 Timother 1:15
13 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
14 Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
15 You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
I did a google search for that verse on christianforums and behold! a thread of mine popped up
2 timothy 1:15 deserted paul christianforums - Google Search
2 Tim 1:15 All of Asia turn away from Paul
2 Tim 1:15 All of Asia turn away from Paul
And what is posted next? A member that thinks I am a heretic because I created a thread on it. EGADS!
And according to Acts 16, the Holy Spirit forbade Saul/Paul from going into Asia. Interesting
Young) Acts 16:6
and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
That is what I would think.Poor Paul.
Regarding the Holy Spirit, He must have been protecting Paul at that particular time, from an early death if he ventured in Asia.
"asia"
occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the NKJV.
Let's look at where "Asia" is used
It is only in Acts, the Epistles of Paul and Peter and 2 times in Revelation:
First time used:
3 other times used outside of Paul's Epistles:Act 2:9
“Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Revelation Chapter 1 Verses1Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Revelation Chapter 1 verse
15. Seven Churches of Asia Commentary - A Testimony of Jesus ChristRev 1:11
saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and,[fn]
“What thou see, write in a book/scroll and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia:......
The immediate audience for the Revelation recorded by John is “the seven churches which are in Asia” (Rev. Rev. 1:4+, Rev. 1:11+). Asia is not the Asia of our day which is the world’s largest continent stretching from the Pacific Ocean on its eastern border to the Ural Mountains in the west. At the time of John, the region refers to the peninsula know as Asia Minor:
At the end of the first century the peninsula known as Asia Minor seems to have embraced six provinces, Asia, Bithynia (including Pontus), Galatia, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Lycia (including Pamphylia). The Province of Asia had been created as far back as the year B.C. 120 out of the domains bequeathed to the Senate by Attalus III., the last king of Pergamum. . . . “Asia in the New Testament,” wrote Dr. Lightfoot in 1865, “is always Proconsular Asia.”; and his dictum has not been seriously shaken by the researches of the last forty years.1
We would locate the churches today on a map of western Turkey.
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