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

[Hebrews 11:6]

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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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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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New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikayon

6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: ‘It is better for me to die than to live.’ 9 And God said to Jonah: ‘Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?’ And he said: ‘I am greatly angry, even unto death.’ 10 And the LORD said: ‘Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night; 11 and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?’

—Jonah 4:6–11

There is some debate over exactly what type of plant God used to shield Jonah from the sun. Some translations called it a ‘gourd’ and some an ‘ivy’. Still others call it the Castor Oil plant which has very large leaves and grows fast.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Like the sea-creature, my guess is that God once again crafted a one-off plant just for Jonah.

In both cases, I take Scripture at face-value and then speculate how God might have done it.

[spankalib]

We'd listen to this when I drove my youngest to middle school:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_vdNTiVEE

[Hebrews 11:6]

Was unaware of it. Thanks, John.

[spankalib]

You’re very welcome! It’s a quirky, funny song - perfect for a middle-schooler! :)

[SisterK]

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

Amen!