The Book Of Jonah

In the book of Jonah we see the vast amount of tension between both God and Jonah. He is one of the prophets who also believes in tolerance of non-Jews opposite to Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s stress of an unadulterated blood race of Jews under a restrictive Jewish God. Jonah is one of a vast line of important people in the bible who argues with God. As you see in past books of the bible everyone has stood their own against the Lord. Jonah though decides to try and run from God. The Lord called to Jonah and said “Arise, go to Ninevah, that great city, and cry against it,” but Jonah flees to Joppa, setting sail on a ship duty-bound for Tarshish, assuming he can evade the Lord. Jonah views the Lord as sort of a indigenous God of restrained power that his hand would not reach as

Jonah was given the task of delivering God’s message of impending judgment to a society that Jonah despised.

Before he went to the island of San Lorenzo, Jonah was floating on a cloud, not really paying attention to too much detail. However, as he met more people on the island things started to click for him, and he was able to make sense out of some of the puzzle that would eventually become his book. Jonah also makes some dumb mistakes, just like humans do. I don't think that his agreeing to become the president of San Lorenzo was a smart move, but at the time all he could think about was marrying Mona, and that in itself was enough motivation for him. "Love is blind" is a very popular saying, and it rings true in most humans, and in this case, Jonah.

God’s angel says that his descendants will follow God and bless all nations. Jesus is born, God’s love starts to affect us. It shows Abraham's faith to us, and that God loves everyone. Jonah Lord People of Nineveh The book of Jonah God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh, Jonah ran away from God, God sends a large storm, sailors threw Jonah at the sea, Jonah got eaten by a Giant fish, Jonah gets thrown up, Jonah goes to Nineveh and tells them to stop being wicked and they do.

God called Jonah to “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry aginst it; for their wickedness is come up before me.” (Jon 1:2) Jonah fled Gods calling to Tarshish. During his escape a great storm came upon the boat that he was on. So the crew cast him into the sea where “the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” In Matthew 12:40 Jesus refrences this as “Jonah being in a whales belly for three days.” While in the belly of the fish Jonah prayed to God to let him out. “the Lord spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land”.(Jon 2:10) Jonah then went to Ninevah “and cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”( Jon 3:4). Ninevah repented and turned back to God and he showed mercy. Jonah was still angry because God showed this savage nation mercy. God then explained to Jonah that everyone needs mercy even your greatest

Along the journey, the seas were suddenly turning rough and Jonah confessed that he disobeyed God’s order and that the storms were the work of the God Jonah believed in. Jonah was thrown off the ship as he told the crew members to throw him off to stop the storm. When Jonah was overboard, a big

The diffrence is Queen Esther went to talk to the king not God and she was also not stuck in a big fish's belly . On the other hand , Jonah was stuck in the big fish's belly and was talking to God . He also was not talking to God for his People , he was talking to god to free him from the big fish's belly

As stated above we pick up in Jonah chapter three. At this point, Jonah’s mission is renewed and we see further evidence that God and Jonah have made amends even though the disagreement between them was high. In verse three, we see that Jonah has went to Nineveh as God asked of him and since it was a large city, it took him three days to get through it. So we have an in text confirmation that three days has passed while Jonah proclaimed that God

Jonah had always worshiped God but turned away from him once when he was told to go to Nineveh to help his enemies. Imagine if you were Jonah and you were told to go save the people that weren’t very kind to you. It would be hard. Although, God did not give up on Jonah that easy and made it clear what Jonah had to do. Eventually, Jonah listened to God and took a long journey to deliver five words throughout Nineveh.

6-7 then part of this message of grace must be the sovereignty of God. Jonah thinks that God should show him grace because he is a Hebrew (as is made most evident in chapter 2). God think Nineveh should not receive grace because

First, his comments from Luke 11:29ff: When the crowds were increasing, He began to say, ‘This generation is an evil generation, it seeks for a sign but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation…the men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.’ We should note that Jesus does not use this occasion to condemn Jonah or praise him. The “sign of Jonah” is not said to be his three days and nights in the fish, but rather that he preached God’s word to that generation of Ninevites as Jesus was preaching God’s word to His generation. What’s more, Jesus

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

Historical Background for the Passage: In the book of Jonah, we see how Jonah ran from God. God allowed Jonah to run, and taught him a valuable lesson during his three days and nights in the belly of a great fish and again when Jonah was angered because God did not destroy Ninevah. Summary and Analysis of Passage:

I think the sunday school lesson is discussing about The lots showed that the troubles came to them because of Jonah. Then the men said to Jonah, “It is your fault that this terrible thing is happening to us. Tell us, what have you done? What is your job? Where do you come from? What is your country? Who are your people?”Jonah said to them, I am a Hebrew. I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the land and the sea. Jonah told the men he was running away from the Lord. The men became very afraid when they learned this. They asked Jonah,What

To recap the first half of the Book of Jonah, God calls upon Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh and send them a message that God will punish the Ninevites if they do not repent for their sins. Jonah, refusing to help the Ninevites, decides to “flee from God in disobedience” (Cosby 124) to Tarshish. Jonah boards a ship with a couple of sailors and sets sail to Tarshish. However during their sail, God sends a terrible storm due to Jonah’s disobedience. The sailors eventually had to throw Jonah into the sea in order to calm the storm. God creates a big fish to engulf Jonah where Jonah was in its belly for three days and three nights. This part of the story in particular allows the reader to stop and ponder if Jonah’s incident with the big fish really took place in history. It is impossible to survive one day in a belly of a fish nevertheless three days! Knowing this bit of information, we can deduce that the