Posted on 03/05/2021 5:59:35 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
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| Ch.3-4 | JONAH: "NINEVEH, REPENT!" |
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PREACHES, NINEVEH REPENTS! |
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CHAPTER 3
1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:
“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
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CHAPTER 4
1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, “Isn’t this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant[c] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”
9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”
“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
10 But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
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" Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites ". .
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"Jonah Preaching to the People of Nineveh". .
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"Jonah, the Messenger of God". .
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"The Great City Of Nineveh". .
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Often, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material, licentious or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.
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Then, there is the human element: this is not actually a daily series, because I can only research, compose, edit and post five or six of these installments weekly. And because I only get to do this series once, I'm taking my time, chiefly by posting everything; if I find lots of art, I don't cherry-pick some and discard the rest. Rather, I line up all of them and then sort them into manageable bunches, often resulting in multiple days' episodes of the same story. Obviously, I like being thorough. Were you in a big hurry?
The Bible is a thick book, as you know; but we'll get there eventually, Lord willing—this is His project, after all. And always remember:
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness & self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!. .
Art is merely the Toy Department of Bible study,
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Thank you for your understanding.Hebrews 11:6
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Thank you, Hebrews 11:6.
May GOD have mercy on U.S. as he did Nineveh.
My understanding of Jonah is the example made to help us believe Jesus Christ died and was raised. Jesus Christ's words about Jonah:
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The most important point of the Jonah story is that he died, he was dead for three days and three nights at the bottom of the sea, "the seaweed surrounded my head." Then God raised him from the dead, just like He did with Jesus Christ, a little different as he died when he was older. Jonah was not reading the bible by candlelight in the fish's belly at the bottom of the sea and living. When I was 5 my Sunday school showed me that picture.
Only God can get through to rebellious humans, as He did with those Ninevites, and even then He doesn’t succeed even half the time. Glad he did with you and me....
2:1 states, "From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God." Then we read his extended prayer. So, I am inclined to the view that God somehow miraculously kept him alive and conscious, in order for him to contemplate his predicament, realize why, and then to repent. Repentance, for Jonah first and then for Nineveh, is the book's theme.
Indeed, this view does no violence to Jesus' commentary, which focused on Jonah's swallowed presence, not on his resurrection.
I don't see much in the way of repenting here.
Good Morning, Dan! :-)
There surely are 10 righteous in the U.S. Different story. :)
Hey there, Sunshine!
When my pastor told the story, he said could imagine the digestive juices from the shark’s belly eating away the pigment on his skin. He probably looked quite scary.
Social distancing in Ninevah. Who knew?
Hope so!
And should the Lord not have concern for the United States, in which there are millions of people who cannot tell a boy from a girl?
"Bartley lost all the hair on his body and was blind for the rest of his life. His skin was bleached to an unnatural whiteness that gave the appearance of being bloodless, although he was healthy"...
His one requirement after joining His company is that we sign a Disclosure Agreement, promising to act as his catalyst with others by testifying about His love:
"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven."
Matthew 10:32-33
That’s a rhetorical question. I trust you know that things are on their way to getting much, much, much worse, and they won’t be getting better until Jesus comes.
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