The company I worked for files bankruptcy, and obviously I am no longer employed by them. Sovereign Grace Publishers is now including e-Sword with all new editions of the 'Modern King James Bible' and 'Literal Translation Version' Bibles. In the three weeks after September 11 th, e-Sword is downloaded over 40,000 times! The parallel Bible feature was added, as well as the ability to maximize the Bible, commentary and dictionary views. He has the ultimate solution for hosting e-Sword, directly on the Internet through his Tier One national backbone! Another brother donates a web server, and now e-Sword can be downloaded at unparalleled speed with unlimited bandwidth available! Just in time, too, as the downloads now exceed 500GB per month.Į-Sword version 5.0 is released. By a miracle, GOD directs the mouse clicks of a brother who 'stumbles' upon the e-Sword web site. GOD is good! Much prayer has been lifted to find a permanent solution to the hosting problems. The LORD finds another brother who offers a T-3 line to accommodate the load. I suppose this is a good problem, but now another new home must be found. The 100,000 th download of e-Sword occurs! Bandwidth is exceeding 100GB per month and the two T-1 lines are not enough. This is the first major publisher to cooperate with e-Sword. The Lockman Foundation grants permission to the use of the 'New American Standard Bible' and 'La Biblia de las Américas' Bibles. The Graphics Viewer was added so that maps and charts could now become part of the ever-growing library of e-Sword resources. Most of the enhancements were to make e-Sword even easier to use and enjoy. The first year of supporting the development and deployment of e-Sword was financed entirely by myself, but now it has grown to the point that this is no longer possible.Į-Sword version 4.0 is released. Favorable reviews of e-Sword are popping up all over the Internet, driving even more traffic to the web site.Įquipping Ministries Foundation is founded to allow users to contribute financially to this ministry. The LORD intervenes and finds a brother with a couple of T-1 lines that I can use. Bandwidth requirements now exceed 50GB per month and no commercial solution can be found. Complete control to the layout and appearance of e-Sword, including which resources are displayed. Many enhancements to the Study Notes editor, including a spell checker and thesaurus, and the Topic Notes mode was added. Time to find a new host to handle the bandwidth requirements now exceeding 10GB per month.Į-Sword version 3.0 is released. People are starting to find e-Sword on the Internet. Improvements included the ability to search commentaries and dictionaries, and highlighting Scripture. now if only people can find it!Į-Sword version 2.0 is released. It was immediately posted on the Internet. e-Sword is birthed with a clear vision of user interface and study approach: keep it simple and do the obvious!Į-Sword version 1.0 is released, complete with its unique user interface layout, popup ToolTips, Study Notes editor, verse comparison, and synchronized commentaries and dictionaries. The first lines of code for e-Sword are written. Nine years later GOD combined my passion for His Word and my pleasure of programming, and e-Sword was birthed! History of eSword

It was this same time that He gave me the desire to program computers (funny how that works).

The Holy Spirit chose to give me the gift of teaching, which I have been using since 1991. I (Rick Meyers) was born in 1962 in sunny southern California, saved by the grace of GOD in 1980, married my beautiful wife in 1988, and have two wonderful children-a daughter and son, in that order. This page will hopefully answer some of those questions, as well as provide a time line of how GOD has blessed this effort. Many people have asked questions regarding the history of e-Sword, this ministry, who I am, etc.

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