He wants ours as well. View Chuck Swindoll's chart of Jonah , which divides the book into major sections and highlights themes and key verses. Who wrote the book? Where are we? Why is Jonah so important? What's the big idea? How do I apply this? Jonah Overview Chart View Chuck Swindoll's chart of Jonah , which divides the book into major sections and highlights themes and key verses. No booking clerk in Joppa could have counted up for Jonah all that it cost him to flee from his duty to Nineveh.
Mankind has never been able to hide from God. It was not long after the ship set sail for Tarshish that the weather began to show signs that it was not willing to allow such a contraband cargo as a wayward prophet to go unchallenged.
The heathen crew cast lots to discover who to blame for the storm, and Jonah came up guilty. Bravely, the condemned Jonah instructed that, if he was hurled to a watery grave, the sea would calm. And this is exactly what happened.
Do you understand, though, that the greatest miracle did not consist of the storm itself but of the pick of the lot and the immediate calm when Jonah was ejected from the ship?
After the terrible tempest, and hours in the deep; after days in the belly of hell and deliverance through earnest prayer—after all of that, we might imagine that, so purified, Jonah would now be the most self-effacing prophet ever commissioned by God. Well, Jonah made no magnificent speeches, composed no litany, proclaimed no series of sermons.
He preached stark repentance. He roared out judgment upon Nineveh. On every street corner, he fervently predicted divine annihilation. Jonah preached in Ninevah. Then a great miracle occurred.
The people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, put on sackcloth, and turned from evil and violence! But, no—a proud, perverted metropolis turned suddenly to God in response to a simple judgment proclaimed by a frenzied, whale-bleached prophet with seaweed stuck in his beard. When God saw that they had truly repented, he turned away his wrath. Why was Jonah so infuriated? Like the rest of Israel, he both feared and hated Nineveh.
Jonah knew that Nineveh was predestined to be the scourge of the conquered and captive Israel. At this the sailors became extremely fearful, speculating how to deal with Jonah in a way that would remove Yahweh's wrath.
Jonah suggested the sailors throw him overboard and have him drown. After hesitating to throw him overboard, they reluctantly agreed with Jonah and threw him into the sea. As Jonah plummeted to the bottom of the ocean, the storm ceased within a short time. At first, Jonah thought he was going to die when the waters began to drown him and he was caught in seaweed. As Jonah descended to the bottom of the sea, he prayed, hoping that he would once again see the Temple - the very place where he knew God would hear his prayer from.
Approaching death and the bottom of the sea, a God-appointed fish came and swallowed Jonah. Inside of the fish, Jonah prayed to God thanking Him for rescuing him from death and recounting his near-death experience drowning [10].
After remaining for three days and three nights [11] , Jonah was vomited by the fish onto dry ground [12]. After his time in the fish, Jonah was once again commanded by God to go Nineveh and speak out against the city.
Therefore, Jonah obeyed and went to the city of Nineveh- it is not known how far he was from the city after he was expelled by the Fish. Jonah traveled an entire day going deep into the city and proclaimed that Nineveh shall fall in forty days. The Ninevites believed Jonah's word, leading the City's Ruler to proclaim a feast of sackcloth in repentance. Jonah had obeyed God and completed the task he was given, but he found the City's repentance to be despicable.
Jonah prayed and confessed that he had fled to Tarshish, because his hatred for the metropolis was immense. Jonah knew that God would mercifully spare the city and then he asked God to take his life; the prophet preferred death over Nineveh surviving. Jonah retreated to the East of Nineveh and set up shelter there. Jonah sat in his shelter, planning to wait to witness the city's fate. During this time a plant sprout up over Jonah's heading providing him shade and relief from further anger.
Jonah was greatly happy about the plant, but the next day the plant died and he was subject to the sun's harshness. Now, Ammitai's son only wished to die, but God rebuked Jonah and told him that he pitied the plant but not metropolis of Nineveh with a population over , In his teaching, Jesus was confronted by scribes and Pharisees who asked to see a sign.
Jesus had already performed miracles, but he replied only the "sign of Jonah" would be given. The son of Joseph went on to liken Jonah's three day residence in a fish to his future three day residence in the grave. Jonah was considered to be a sign to the people of Nineveh. Further, Jesus recounted that even Nineveh could condemn the people of the generation, since they repented at Jonah's teaching.
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