Ezekiel has his first encounter with God. He was a priest already, but God gives him an unexpected encounter! Ezekiel was of the priestly line of Aaron. We are not given his lineage. We have to take that aspect on faith. Ezekiel was also an exile. He was taken with the first group who went […]
God sends Jonah back on the same mission He originally created. Because the people heard the words of God, Nineveh repents and is saved. Jonah didn’t get out of anything by running away. God had a job for him to do and He was going to see that it got done. We still don’t know […]
Jonah is in the belly of a great fish. There comes a turning point in Jonah’s heart where he calls out to God. Not just “Save me”, but “I’m sorry.” Jonah wanted nothing to do with the mission God had for him. He tried running away, but wound up trapped instead. That is until he […]
God makes the first call to Jonah to go to Nineveh. This is probably not the first call to Jonah over his lifetime, but this one he refuses. I have a feeling that God has used Jonah before. Jonah has seen the people God sends him to repent of their ways. He has seen God […]
We have reached the conclusion of Job’s story. Job answers God with a right attitude and God deals with his friends. Job is restored and then some! I like the conclusion of Job. It’s not only that Job gets it right in the end, but that his relationship with God changes from knowing about God, […]