The Bible In Paintings >>> “!Surprising Salvations!” Series ✝️ THE NINEVITES, WITH JONAH TO THE RESCUE! ✝️

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!SURPRISING SALVATIONS!
JONAH, RELUCTANT RESCUER

HOW THE NINEVITES’
SALVATION WAS SURPRISING:

1. THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THE GOSPEL—Far from Israel, in Assyria, the Good News had not reached Nineveh—yet.

2. SO GOD RAISED UP A MESSENGER, JONAH—But Jonah hated the Ninevites, so he refused to go.

3. GOD IS NOT SO EASILY THWARTED—He summoned a special transport just for Nineveh’s Reluctant Rescuer.

4. JONAH’S WORST FEARS WERE REALIZED! When he finally delivered the Good News to those Nasty Ninevites, THEY REPENTED AND BELIEVED!

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DOUGLAS RAMSEY
"Into the Deep"

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HE QI
"Jonah & the Whale"

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Sailors Reluctantly Throw the Prophet Jonah into the Sea"

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PAUL BRIL
"Jonah's Story"

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ADRIEN MANGLARD
"Jonas Falling into the Sea"

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DOMINICUS CUSTOS
"Jonah Cast into the Sea"

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MONICA AGEE
"Jonah"

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HOWARD STROMAN
"Jonah"

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VICKY PATH
"God Summons the Whale"

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JENNIFER QUINN
"Jonah and the Great Fish"

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"Jonah Escapes the Whale"

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"Jonah is Spit on Land by the Fish"

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HERRAD OF LANDSBERG
"The Prophet Jonas Is Spit out by Fish at Nineveh"

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"Jonas Rejected by the Whale"

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"Jonas und der Wal"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Jonah, as in Jonah 2:10,
"And the Lord commanded the fish,
and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.""

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jonah Is Spewed Forth by the Whale"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jonah Is Spewed Forth by the Whale"

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PIETER LASTMAN
"Jonah and the Whale"

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VICTOR MOLEV
"Jonah"

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H. MANDEL
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BRUEGHEL the Elder
"Jonah and the Whale"

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RUGGERO GIOVANNINI
"The Great City of Nineveh"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites"

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ADOLF HULT
"Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites"

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ANDREA VACCARO
"Jonah Preaching to the People of Ninevah"

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FRANK O SALISBURY
"Jonah, the Messenger of God"

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GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS
"Jonah"

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[Red Badger]

—>THEY REPENTED AND BELIEVED!<——

So did Jonah’s shipmates!.....................

[No name given]

Intriguing.

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What an evangelist! Despite his reluctance...............

[Red Badger]

His shipmates were Phoenicians and headed to Tarshish (not Paul’s Tarsus), a Phoenician colony on the coast of Spain.

Phoenicians were pagans, as were just about everybody else in the ancient world, but they were convinced that the God of Jonah was a true god. This would help explain why Christianity spread so fast among the pagan civilizations after the Fall of Rome.......................

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Tarshish, being at the other extreme of the Mediterranean, seemed like the end of the world to Jonah. But God is not mocked...................

[Red Badger]

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/

[Bob434]

Lol at 14 15 16- humorously done almost.

24 is my favorite, love me some brueghel- love the Reubens painting as well

Interesting set for sure.

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humorously done almost

The whole story is High Comedy. No humans or animals were injured in the making of this book.

[Bob434]

Lol! But the fish did get a belly ache

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My presumption is that God fashioned a one-off special critter to house Jonah for three whole days.

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It certainly is.

[Red Badger]

If He can create an entire Universe in six days, one fish shouldn’t be any problem at all...................

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I think this is a point worth belaboring: just as God went to such extreme lengths to save Jonah, in the same way He goes to extreme lengths in attempting to rescue every human.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Some nice pieces in here…and some fun too. The Watts makes Jonah look like he was part of a zombie apocalypse (I suspect Jonah had to look and smell pretty rank after three days). The Giovannini is impressive. Molev, Tissot, Ramsey and Agee are all very interesting…and our friend He Qi reappears.

Really good group for one of the greatest stories ever told.

[Red Badger]

God does not want to see anyone die.....................

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Jonah look like he was part of a zombie apocalypse (I suspect Jonah had to look and smell pretty rank after three days)

I've seen speculation that Jonah's horrific appearance was the catalyst for his effectiveness in evangelizing.

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It is a testament to the freeness of our will that anyone at all, let alone the majority, is able to resist God’s wooing.................

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Interesting idea…a partially-digested mess of a man telling them about a God like nothing they had ever heard of or imagined before…it would be a stark contrast to their very hard lives ruled by an elite hierarchy.