Jonah Essay

In Jonah 4, we saw that when you run without God’s love, God runs to make you love Him so that you will begin to love people the way God loves people – more than anything. Jonah became vehemently angry when God spared Nineveh. He prayed, which is a good thing, but how he prayed leaves quite a bit to be desired: 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!” The LORD is not going to allow His servant to have this wrong attitude, so He confronts

The book of Jonah is one that is very interesting because it is such a common story that is told children, however, about half of the book is left out. Educators typically don’t include chapters three and four within their storytelling, so I was curious to learn about the rest of Jonah and what it would entail for the relationship between Jonah and God. Within chapters three and four, Jonah is called to go the city of Nineveh and give them a message that their city will be destroyed in forty days

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: God spoke to Jonah and told him to go to Nenevah and preach against the sin and wickedness in the city. Jonah did not want to go to Ninevah and he ran to another city where he boarded

Jonah was a true prophet of God who surely knew that a previous prophet who had disobeyed God’s instructions had died without mercy. I Kings 13:1-32 records that account. God sent a lion to kill him. Jonah was a prophet serving Jeroboam II, so Jonah expected that he too would be killed by God if he refused to go to Nineveh. Jonah was reconciled to that fate, and he accepted it. However, he felt that if he sacrificed his life, Assyria would be destroyed and his nation, Israel, would be spared. Jonah’s

The Word of the Lord came upon Jonah saying to him "Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me." (Jonah 1: 2) However Jonah was scared by the the abrupt presence of God. Jonah was confused as well as scared and soon decided to flee away from the Lord and his word. Jonah fled onto a ship to escape The Lord's call - Jonah 1:3 Jonah fled to Tarshish and went down to Joppa where he found a ship sailing off to Tarshish. He paid to go on

(Ezra Taft Benson).The book of Jonah is based off of a man who disobeys God. Jonah disobeys God because he was already aware of how the people of Ninevah would react to the word of God that he came to share. The Book of Jonah can be used as a piece of art that describes the late 5th to early 4th century in Nineveh. It shows that God ultimately has the finally decision and he is able to do things to show others the consequence of being disobedient. The book of Jonah is written in third person

“Ch. 1” - Jonah realized he cannot seek the Lord and flee from him at the same time; in result a powerful sea storm arises and Jonah is sacrificed into the sea and swallowed by momentous fish in order to save the sailors. vv. 3-4: Jonah sails for Tarshish and the Lord sends a storm. vv. 8-12: Jonah explains himself and wants to be thrown into the sea. vv. 13-16: Sailor's sacrifice Jonah into the sea. “ Ch. 2” - We can pray to God at anytime and he will

It is thought that Jonah, the fifth of the Minor Prophets, lived during the reign of Jeroboam II, when the kingdom was divided. (Lockyer, 198) Although the Book of Jonah is quite short, just two and one-half pages, it is not short on themes. Because there are so many themes it is hard to classify or to determine its primary message. (Anchor 936 and New Interpreter's 490) These themes range from running away, praying, second chances, anger, and God's compassion and mercy, to name a few. The

The story of Jonah is perhaps one of the most famous in scriptures. Even non-Christians typically know the story of “Jonah and the Whale”. However, there is much more to this story than can be taken at face value. Reading this story within the context of the Old Testament reveals characteristics of each setting that add more to the story. It is understandable why an Israelite would have avoided Nineveh; Nineveh was such an undesirable place to the devout follower of God that even the possibly dangerous

Professor Kenneth Yelverton PWS 102: Homiletics II 12 April 2017 Sermon Preparation/Notes Jonah Jonah 2: 2 (NKJV) “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. What is Jonah’s background? Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. Jonah was the main character of the book of Jonah. He was the son of Amittai (Jonah 1:1), and a native of Gathhepher, which was a city of the tribe of Zebulun in the northern