Metaphors In The Actions Of Jonah

I will show the reader the different ways we can understand the mercy of God in the Parable of the Prodigal Son through the following sections that describe the process of mercy as a conversion, from who are the main characters in the parable within the gospel of Luke to how that mercy is destroyed by the different actions of the human being.

John Walton’s The Object Lesson on Jonah 4:5-7 and the Purpose of the Book of Jonah is a very enlightening work of research. In this article, Walton seeks to reveal to us that Jonah chapter four and particularly the object lesson in verses 5-7, holds the key to our understanding of the purpose of the book of Jonah. He highlights Jonah’s anger which is caused by how God responds to Nineveh’s repentance. Walton also reveals to us the significance of the author’s intended purpose for including this incidence in the book. He concludes that the message of Jonah is a theological message. Before reading this article, I must admit that my understanding of Jonah has always been from a missiological perspective. I had never considered the fact that the

The LORD is not going to allow His servant to have this wrong attitude, so He confronts Jonah with a question: 4 Then the LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?” This is a conversation between God and Jonah. We’re third party. Jonah is saying to God, “I’m mad that You spared the Ninevites and forgave them and showed Your love and mercy!”

Jonah and Jesus both had a mission to convert the Gentiles to God and help them to acknowledge that God was the source of their salvation. Jonah’s mission was to call the Assyrian gentiles in Nineveh to repentance whilst one of Jesus’ mission was to convert all nations –including Gentiles- into the covenant of God. In Jonah 3:8-10 Jonah proclaims to the people of Nineveh. Jonah is preaching to Assyrian gentiles in order to deliver them from their evil habits and sin and bring them back to the grace of God. This is similar to one of Jesus’ missions; for not only did Jesus want the Jews to be educated about God but he also wanted the Gentiles to be and we see this in Mathew 28:19 when he proclaims that people of all nations (Jews and Gentiles, Israelites and Assyrians etc.) are to be told about God and become

In the original biblical story of Jonah, Jonah tries to escape from G-d by ignoring his command to warn the people of Nineveh and taking a boat elsewhere. “It Should Happen to a Dog” by Wolf Mankowitz presents the story of Jonah in a different way, in which Jonah’s intentions were only to make a stop on Tarshish before ultimately reaching Nineveh. In chapter 9 of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, the story of Jonah is presented in a similar way to the original, with Jonah also trying to escape G-d. While “It Should Happen to a Dog” displays a variation to Jonah’s endeavor to obey G-d’s commands, chapter 9 of “Moby Dick” emphasises Jonah’s disobedience toward G-d by describing Jonah’s sinful intentions for disobeying G-d.

The theme of heroism can be found in a significant number of literature works, whether they date in the past or in the present. A hero is defined as “a man admired for his achievements and qualities” (“Hero”, 2006, p. 505). Some of the heroic qualities that these characters may possess include nobility, bravery, and selflessness. By a character possessing these qualities of a hero, he/she will represent heroism. Four well-known literature works that display this theme are The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sandars, 1972), The Ramayana (Narayan, 2006), The Oresteia (Aeschylus, 1977), and the Bible.

I am so glad that whenever we think that we have aborted our assignment, God places us back on the right track. The preacher talked about how God will not stop you from going where you going but he will move ahead of you and make preparations for your deliverance. I agree with Dr. Carter on that matter. I also agree with him concerning the fact that the fish was not just Jonah’s punishment, but it was also his deliverance. God is an awesome

The disciple walked into the room. Maxwell was shocked to see that the man was pale with no color. His clothes were colorless as well. This man’s appearance was indescribable. He also had no words. Maxwell asked, “His name” and he replied with how he did everything opposite of what God told him to do. He went on to say, “I thought I knew better than God” (Maxwell, 2014, p. 94). After his statement he identified himself as Jonah and went on to inform Maxwell that “God always give us a second chance” (Maxwell, 2014, p. 94). Jonah was a witness to that statement. Every task God assigned Jonah, he disobeyed. After all he had done, God gave him a second chance by calling on him to preach to the people of Nineveh. Jonah took a ship to Tarshish, to

Jonah is one of the more well-known books in the Old Testament, as it contains a familiar story to Christians and non-Christians alike. As a child growing up, most of us would be familiar with the story of Jonah and his being swallowed up by the fish. Even many non-Christians I know who did not grow up in church have made mention of this Biblical story. While the story of Jonah and the fish is often romanticized or even changed (i.e. changing the fish to a whale), the story and moral lesson contained within it is incredibly applicable both to the Israelites of Jonah’s time, as well as to us today. Jonah is believed to have ministered around the time of 746-786 BC due to a reference in 2 Kings 14:23-25 of, “Jonah, son of Amittai” (Hays 299). Despite the events contained with the book happening before the Assyrian conquest, it is easy to sense the tension between the Israelites and the Assyrians when reading the book of Jonah.

The book of Jonah is short, compassing four brief chapters of 48 verses. Despite brevity, it is a powerful story of God’s grace to Gentiles and a reflective study into God’s character and mercy. Jonah is a story of contrasts. It reveals God’s greatness and man’s pettiness. God was gracious and Jonah peevish. It is a story of repentance. The sailors repented from following false gods to trusting the one true God. Jonah repented from fleeing God to obeying Him. The Ninevites repented from wickedness to righteousness. Some think God is absent from the world’s affairs and that the world goes on unnoticed by Him.  Jonah 1:1-2 should arrest one’s attention. God is aware of all man does. In most cases, He allows man to do as he will and

The story of the Sign of Jonah is grammatically very similar in each of its parallel versions. The main differences in the stories come from the additions or deletion of certain information. In the gospel of Luke, Jesus gives the sign of Jonah by saying “For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be to this generation .” While in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. ” In both Matthew and Luke, Jesus gives the people the sign of Jonah, however in each story the meaning of the sign changes due to these additions. Luke uses the sign of Jonah in order to preach the importance of repentance . Jonah was a prophet who preached to

2. Background and Introduction: Jonah was instructed by God to go to Nineveh and preach the message of repentance to them.

The iconic image of Jonah in the whale for three days relates to Christ’s death

I derived the fish outline which surrounds the other three images from verse 1:17 where God sends a giant fish, not a whale as some traditions continue to perpetuate, to swallow Jonah after being heaved from the ship which he hoped would allow him to escape responsibility to Nineveh (1:3). I chose to place a dove in this top position for several reasons: (1) Jonah means dove in Hebrew and is a humorous symbol for fragile, fickle, and asinine, (2) the dove represents the Holy Spirit which is active in the grace used for repentance in John Wesley’s Order of Salvation, and (3) its placement near the fish’s mouth represents Jonah’s constant urge to flee from God’s call (1:3, 12, 4:3, 5, 8). The placement of Jonah in the “belly” of the ship within the “belly” of the fish purposefully highlights the feminine grammar found in the story (1:5, 2:1). This Christian rebirth imagery is further substantiated by Jonah’s cry from the “womb of Sheol” (2:2) in which he spent three days and nights (1:17), the traditional time to travel to Sheol. The final image of Jonah mirrors his psalm where “the weeds were wrapped around [his] head” (2:5) and parallels the difficult change of heart God hopes Jonah will experience after God spares Nineveh in chapter

We often read stories in the Bible without taking the historical context into consideration. As a result, we become unaware of the story’s historical validity. In some cases, stories are used to share a moral concept, or used as a tool to teach a lesson. The Book of Jonah is an example that will be used to determine if this particular story describes an accurate recount of history, or if it teaches the readers a lesson. In the Book of Jonah, Jonah (the prophet) is instructed to go to a pagan city (Nineveh) to preach to the Ninevites, hoping that they will repent for their sins. However, he challenges God and travels to Tarshish instead. Jonah receives consequences for his actions and Nineveh is eventually forgiven by God. Although the