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Study "Called" - Ezekiel
Ezekiel – 9:3 – A cleansing of Israel. The man clothed with linen with the writer’s inkhorn, is called by God to go through the people and mark those that are upset by the abominations around them. Following that man is a group of armed leaders of the city. They are charged with killing everyone who is not marked. 20:29 – The Israelites came into the land and started worshiping the false gods at the high places. God calls them out on this and names it Bamah which means “high
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Study "Called" - Lamentations
Lamentations – 1:15 – The Lord called an enemy force to crush the young men of Judah. The judgement of the Lord and the sorrow of Judah. 1:19 – Judah calls for her lovers for aid and is deceived. God often refers to anyone turning from Him as playing the harlot. And the false lovers of Israel always deceive her. 1:21 – The enemies of Israel are glad of her torment. And she remembers the day that the Lord has called, where judgement comes upon the whole earth. 2:22 – In the da
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Oct 101 min read
Study "Called" - Jeremiah Pt.2
Jeremiah – 15:16 – The Word of God brings joy and rejoicing to the heart of those that are called by His name. 19:6 – God will change a locations identity to reflect His judgement. 20:3 – Jeremiah declares that God has changed the name of Pashur to Magormissabib (“terror on every side”). This priest put Jeremiah in the stocks for prophesying against the idolatry of Jerusalem. 23:6 – God promises on His own name that Judah will be saved. 25:29 – God will judge all those who de
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Oct 31 min read
Study "Called" - Jeremiah Pt.1
Jeremiah – 1:15 – God tells Jeremiah, He will call families of the kingdoms of the north, and they will lay siege against Jerusalem. 3:17 – Redemption shall come, and Jerusalem shall be called, the throne of the Lord. And people will not walk after their evil ways. 3:19 – The Lord has singled out His people. He blesses them among the nations, we shall call Him, Father, and will not turn from Him. 6:30 – The people from the north, will be called reprobate silver, because God r
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Sep 262 min read
Study "Called" - Isaiah Pt3
Isaiah – 58:13 – The Sabbath is to be a delight. Turn from your own ways and seek the Lord, to honor Him. 59:4 – Signs of separation from God. None are calling for justice or truth. They trust vanity and speak lies. Creating mischief and iniquity. 60:14 – The children of transgressors, will acknowledge the identity of the church of God. The Bride. The New Jerusalem. 60:18 – God will exchange lesser for greater. Violence, wasting and destruction will be gone. His people will b
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Sep 192 min read
Study "Called" - Isaiah Pt2
Isaiah – 44:5 – Those that are the Lord’s, will call themselves by His name and do His will. 44:7 – The Lord calls and declares. He sets the times in order. 45:3 – God distinguishes Himself as the one who calls by name. That He may be known. This is part of His letter to Cyrus. 45:4 – God reiterates Himself to Cyrus. He calls him by name even though Cyrus hasn’t known the Lord. 46:11 – God is who He says He is. He calls men from far countries to do His will. He does what He s
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Sep 132 min read
Study "Called" - Isaiah Pt1
Isaiah – 1:13 – Open actions of religion done without a heart for or relationship with God, are iniquity to Him. Including the calling of assemblies. 1:26 – In the end God will restore His people, and they will be called the city of righteousness. 4:1 – These women want the name and the appearance, but not the reality or depth of relationship. No trust. 7:14 – The son of the virgin will be called Immanuel! 8:3 – Isaiah’s wife bears him a son, and God tells Isaiah to name him,
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Sep 52 min read
Study "Called" - Proverbs & Song of Solomon
Proverbs – 1:24 – Wisdom calls out to people, and they have refused. She is ignored and disregarded. 1:28 – Wisdom ignores those who refused her. Their calamity will come and she will laugh. They did not take counsel or reproof. 7:4 – If you wish to avoid destruction, seek wisdom and draw close to understanding. Fear of the Lord will keep you from destruction. 8:4 – Wisdom cries out to people that they would answer her. She seeks those that do not have her. That they would un
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Aug 291 min read
Study "Called" - Psalm Pt. 2
Psalms – 80:18 – A request for God to not turn His back. To hear our calls and save us. 81:7 – When the people of God call upon Him; He answers them. 86:5 – The Lord is good and ready to forgive those that call upon Him. 86:7 – When I am in trouble I will call upon my King. For He will answer me. 88:9 – In my daily affliction, I will call upon the name of the Lord and stretch out my hands to Him. 91:15 – When I call upon the Lord, He will answer me. He will be with me in my t
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Aug 222 min read
Study "Called" - Psalm Pt. 1
Psalms – 4:1 – A request that God would hear the prayers and call of His own. 4:3 – God sets apart the godly for Himself. He hears their calls. 14:4 – Workers of iniquity have no knowledge, they consume others, and do not call upon the Lord. 17:6 – I call upon God because He hears me. He inclines His ear to me. 18:3 – I will call upon God, the only one worthy of praise. He shall save me from my enemies. 18:6 – In my distress, I call upon God. He will hear my cries and incline
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Aug 152 min read
Study "Called" - Job
Job – 1:4 – Job’s sons called his daughters to join them in a feast. 5:1 – Job’s friend Eliphaz, is explaining that suffering comes as a chastening by God. He tells Job to call out to see if any will answer him. He proceeds to ask Job which saint he will turn too. 9:16 – Job is speaking, saying he would not believe that God heard him, even if He answered him. Job is struggling with why he is suffering, he does not see the reason for it. Yet he still asks God for an answer. 12
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Aug 81 min read
Study "Called" - Esther
Esther – 2:14 – The establishment of the fact that a woman that had been presented to the king, could only come back if she was called by name. 3:12 – The scribes of the king were called on the 13th day of the month to write and distribute the edict that Haman had created. It was sealed with the king’s signet and sent. 4:5 – Esther calls for one of her attendants to go to Mordecai and find out what was going on. 4:11 – If anyone comes before the king who has not been called,
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Aug 21 min read
Study "Called" - Ezra & Nehemiah
Ezra – 2:61 – A priest of the tribe of Levi took a Gileadite as a wife and was called their name. Nehemiah – 5:12 – Nehemiah called the priests and got them to promise that they would restore unto the people what had been extracted from them. A lot of them had gone into debt to pay the king’s tribute. 7:63 – This is a repeat of the section from Ezra. The priest who did this was removed from the inheritance (priesthood) as was his lineage.
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Jul 251 min read
Study "Called" - 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles – 3:17 – Two pillars are erected in front of the temple. One is called Jachin and the other Boaz. The kinsmen-redeemer will establish. 6:33 – In his dedication of the temple, Solomon asks that God would answer the prayers of strangers, when they call to Him, that all the people of the earth would know His name. 7:14 – God provides healing and redemption for His people and their land. If His people, defined as those called by His name, humble themselves, pray, see
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Jul 191 min read
Study "Called" - 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles – 4:9 – A man in the line of Hur of the tribe of Judah. His mother called him, Jabez, which means sorrow, because she bore him with sorrow. 4:10 – Jabez called on the God of Israel, to keep him from evil and bless him. And God answered his prayer. 6:65 – The cities given to the children of the tribes of Simeon and Benjamin were called by their names. 7:16 – Manasseh had two sons. One was Zelophehad, the other Maachah. Maachah’s wife bore a son that she called Per
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Jul 122 min read
Study "Called" - 2 Kings
2 Kings - 3:10 – The king of Israel has joined with the kings of Judah and Edom to fight Moab (God has called them). And he is despairing. The king of Judah asks for a man of God. 3:13 – Elisha does not care for the king of Israel, but for the sake of the king of Judah, he seeks God’s wisdom, for the three kings that God called against Moab. 4:12 – Elisha calls for a woman that convinced her husband to provide shelter and food for Elisha and his servant. 4:15 – Elisha asked h
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Jul 43 min read
Study "Called" - 1 Kings
1 Kings – 1:9 – One of David’s sons, Adonijah, calls the people to him, to crown him as the next king after David. David is old at this point and not fully aware of what has happened. 1:10 – Adonijah does not call the generals and prophets that are loyal to David to his celebration. 1:19 – Bathsheba is telling King David what is going on with Adonijah. And recounting that those loyal to David were not invited. 1:25 – Nathan the prophet is recounting the same event to David. 1
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Jun 274 min read
Study "Called" - 2 Samuel
2 Samuel – 1:7 – A young Amalekite tells David a story about how Saul called to him, and asked the Amalekite to kill him, and he did. 1:15 – David mourns the death of Saul, then calls to one of his own men to kill the Amalekite. 2:16 – A painful civil war takes place. The place is called, Helkathhazzurim which means, “field of swords”. 2:26 – Civil war continues. One leader calls to another about the pain and bitterness that is present in this battle, and the pursuit is stop
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Jun 203 min read
Study "Called" - I Samuel
1 Samuel – 1:20 – Hannah names her son, Samuel, which means “his name is El”, because she had asked him of the Lord. 3:4 – The Lord calls to Samuel as he is sleeping and Samuel responses with, “Here am I”. 3:5 – Smauel thinks the Eli the prophet he was serving under was the one to call him. And Eli tells him to go back to bed. 3:6 – God calls Samuel again, and Samuel, again, goes to Eli. And Eli tells him that he didn’t call him and to go back to bed. 3:8 – The same thing hap
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Jun 133 min read
Study "Called" - Ruth
Ruth – 1:20 – Naomi tries to change her name, her identity. But God does not allow it. The Bible continues to call her Naomi. – Even when we think our lives are over and everything is gone. God is not done. 1:21 – Naomi continues, that God has testified against her and afflicted her. She is dealing with a lot of pain. 4:17 – The naming of Obed, the son of Ruth and Boaz. They call him the son of Naomi, as he is a redemption of her husbands line. Obed is the father of Jesse, th
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Jun 71 min read
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