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God again instructs Jonah to tell Nineveh that if they don’t repent, within 40 days the city will be totally overturned. This time, Jonah does as told.
I believe that Jonah was in Nineveh in June of 763 BC during the total eclipse of the sun, which would help explain the remarkable response of the people of Nineveh. Jonah preaches at exactly the ...
Then he was obedient to God and he went to Nineveh to proclaim a message of repentance: And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and ...
Jonah hated Nineveh; he did not want its reconciliation with God; he wanted its destruction. So, he sails away on a ship. When a storm comes, the crew and passengers pray to their gods for ...
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Jonah is furious when God forgives Nineveh because that mercy turns Jonah into a false prophet. Jonah has been screaming about the city’s doom, and nothing happens. Jonah looks like a fraud.
In other words, Jonah wants God to destroy Nineveh, which represents the greatest foreign threat to him and his fellow Hebrews. Instead, the Hebrew prophet has become the agent of its salvation.
Now Jonah reveals why he actually ran from God in the first place. He didn’t want to go to Nineveh because he knew the power of God’s Word.
I believe that Jonah was in Nineveh in June of 763 BC during the total eclipse of the sun, which would help explain the remarkable response of the people of Nineveh. Jonah preaches at exactly the ...
Jonah hated Nineveh; he did not want its reconciliation with God; he wanted its destruction. So, he sails away on a ship. When a storm comes, the crew and passengers pray to their gods for ...
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