CALLED BY THE LORD, PART 6

DEPICTION OF JONAH RUNNING AWAY FROM THE LORD



I was doing Bible study one night and it became clear to me that, Noah, Moses, Jonah, Deborah, Jael, Lydia, Seller of Purple, Rehab,The Twelve Disciples, and Paul were all CALLED by God. The Lord may require  some people to carry out a special task.There will be others that may be required to minister His Word and  travel around the world as a missionary.   
 

This week I'll share scriptures about different men 

and women that were called by the Lord. Some of these people were rebellious and did not want to answer His call.  All eventually did the Lord's will.

Today, I will share scriptures which discuss that the
Lord CALLED a man named Jonah.  He did not want
to answer the Lord's call and ran away.  There were consequences to Jonah's actions. The Lord's will did prevail. He did go to Nineveh.

JONAH 1: 1-4, 6-9, 12, 15-17

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,  

² “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.”  

³ But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

⁴ But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.

⁶ So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
⁷ And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
 ⁸ Then they said to him, “Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”
⁹ So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

¹² And he said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.”
   
¹⁵ So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
¹⁶ Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.

DEPICTION: JONAH SWALLOWED BY FISH


¹⁷ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

JONAH & THE WHALE: 
BY JAN BRUEGHEL, THE ELDER

JONAH 2: 1-2, 10

1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. 

² And he said:

“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me.

¹⁰ So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

DEPICTION OF JONAH  PREACHING :

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JONAH  3: 1-10

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

² “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.”  

³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.  

⁴ And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty

days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed 
a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 
⁶ Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
 ⁷ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,

Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 

⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.   

⁹ Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

¹⁰ Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

IMAGE: ENTRANCE TO NINEVEH, IRAQ