Wake up from your delusions. Am I correct in my understanding that Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh because he was a good law keeping Jew because Jews had no dealings with gentiles? Gods mercy trumps every time. I tend to think that the heart of the earth may have a broader meaning. Jonah 1.12, 4.3, 9). Don, You provided great insight into the book of Jonah. The worms destruction of the gourd was a picture of Gods potential destruction of Nineveh. Hmm, now why does this description seem so familiar? When you quote Jonah 3:9, 4:4, & 4:11 (they are all questions, one by the king, and two are God speaking to Jonah), I would add a question mark inside your quotation marks. God does the unexpected. Jonah's prayer is a masterpiece of heartfelt emotion and reaching out to God for mercy and forgiveness. Jesus told the Jews the Ninevites would judge them because they had repented because of Jonahs preaching and that He was greater than Jonah. Maybe, just maybe, God would change His mind and destroy the city. On account of selfishness and sexual misbehavior, many families have been torn apart. By the way, Do u pastor any congregation? God not only plays dice, His dice are loadedand invisible. Yom Kippur in the Community. When they did this, the lots identified Jonah as the culprit. The Lord Jesus Christ picked up our tab and paid it all. In response to Jonahs flight, God hurled () a storm onto the sea. Sometimes, to get a mans attention, God creates havoc. It is a story of repentance. I have a couple of suggestions. Mr. Reade went on to say, "It contains forty-eight verses and 1,328 words. Do those who doubt Jonah think the God who created the universe and raised Jesus from the dead cannot cause a sea creature to swallow Jonah? Sept. cont. Through Jonah, the sailors experienced salvation. Throughout the telling, Jonahs disobedience and iniquity is highlighted by repeated use of the verb down. Rather than follow Gods instruction, Jonah goes down to the port city of Jaffa, then down onto the ship on the way to Tarshish, then down to a lower deck. Some think God is absent from the worlds affairs, that the world goes on unnoticed by Him. In the end, the men must hand Jonah over to the Lord. Then the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god. God promised that the covenant line, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through whom came the Jews, would bless Gentiles. Yom Kippur Prayer Services. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days walk (Jonah 3.3). wrote Ninevehwas about sixty miles in circumference and twenty miles across. Did he fear that their redemption would make a mockery of his prophecy (that the city would be destroyed)? As a result, they cast lots to learn about this strange man. The text doesnt say. Delirium-Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay there fast asleep. This revelation terrified the men even more. At the end of the day, 6 p.m., his foreman paid each man a denarius. So I am trying to gain understanding here. The men decide to draw lots to see who is responsible for the storm and the lot falls on Jonah. Nineveh survived for another 150 years after it heeded Jonahs message. Their gods had failed. 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. One does not get far in an English novel of 1,328 words. Exceptions are Rahab, the harlot, Naaman, the Syrian general, Ruth, the Moabitess, and Nebuchadnezzar. What are your thoughts on this? He said, While I was fainting away,I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple (Jonah 2.7). Salvation is from the Lord.. Could it mean something other than burial? But their rowing is futile and the storm continues to rage, so they reluctantly toss Jonah into the sea, instantly calming the waters. But he gives no response, risking the lives of everyone onboard. Despite brevity, it is a powerful story of Gods grace to Gentiles and a reflective study into Gods character and mercy. This is mercys abode. But if only resuscitated, I would think Jonah was not really dead; he was just unconscious or had stopped breathing. God controls and uses nature to achieve His ends. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple (Jonah 2.4). Or whither shall I flee from thy face? and suffer great losses (by throwing their cargo overboard) on account of Jonahs sinfulness. In most cases, He allows man to do as he will and manages His plan behind the scenes. God sends a giant fish to swallow Jonah. When Jesus told the Twelve not to go to Gentiles it was because Israel had to repent first to comply with the kingdom blessings which were part of the Abrahamic Covenant. All things are His. "Little I wonder if the ship is wreckedWhich carries thee and thy ill-gotten wealth." But the plant wasnt an act of divine mercy it was part of a divine lesson. What is your occupation? Paul raised Eutychus (Acts 20) from death but Eutychus died later. Jonah is remarkable in that wherever he went, in obedience or disobedience, people were saved. Anyone is free to reproduce this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold. Summary- God appointed a worm to kill the plant that Jonah delighted in. Terrified, His disciples woke Him to save them from sinking. I just knew it. This was a large army, even by modern standards. But unlike other prophetic books, what follows is not an account of the divine words that Jonah received, but instead a story about Jonah who, it turns out, was a very reluctant, even recalcitrant prophet. In verse 7 the sailors are casting lots, doing divination to try to figure out who the guilty person is. What we do, or fail to do, affects others. The earth with its bars was around me forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God. Not one to let a prophet pull a disappearing act, God sends a storm to threaten Jonahs shipand it is a doozy. 601-604. This is what every sinner, whether outside the Church or inside, needs to hear:wake up and look at what youre doing; see how youre affecting yourself and all of us. Implicit in Jonahs message was that God was displeased with their behavior. Commentators cite the story of Diagoras told by Cicero ('De Nat. God didnt pursue the question; He gave Jonah time to reflect. Tell us, they said, what is your business? A day is coming when Gods patience will end. Do you have good reason to be angry (Jonah 4.4)? Jonah had wanted to die rather than face his mistakes and complete his mission, but God wont permit it. After having dealt with the entire human race for 2,000 years, God established a new program with Abraham, known as the Abrahamic Covenant. Jonah hit the warm waters of the sea with a splash. To lighten it, they began to toss cargo into the sea (Jonah 1.4-5). Jonah. Thanks. But Jonah received more than a mere mention. The Lord then taught Jonah about His love for the people of Nineveh. All Your breakers and billows passed over me. Jonah is the great story of Gentile salvation in the Old Testament. Does God repent? In this sovereignly enacted covenant, He declared His blessings to Gentiles would be mediated through a new race of people, the Jews. 6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes (Jonah 3.5-6). I wonder if (and hope that) the young people who sang it understood its significance for them, too. God heard him and asked a question. For the most part, Gentile salvation is rare. Yet You brought my life up from the pit, O Lord my God! I have a question on your comment above: If Jonah did die, he was resuscitated, not resurrected. Perhaps because he cannot see a way out of this hole of wrongdoing, and perhaps because he would probably die anyway, Jonah tells the crew that their only option is to throw him overboard an act that will supposedly appease God and save the ship from the storm. When I read the Biblical account, I see that Jonah actually dies and is resurrected. Lets examine the story of Jonah and allow its teachings to reach us. The great majority of it. How much of our trouble comes from our sin? That fear had been realized. , 1 Samuel 14:38,39 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. Meanwhile, the gales grow stronger and civilization continues to crumble. The book of Nahum prophesied and described its doom. Charles Reade, the English novelist, wrote, Jonah is the most beautiful story ever written in so small a compass.2The story has a clearly defined structure and is replete with figures of speech: puns, hendiadys, merism, chiasm, parallelism, etc. His case is never resolved. The Ninevites werepagan, idolatrous Gentiles. Yes, what are you doing? You cared about the plant, which you did not work for and which you did not grow. Amid the commotion, the captain finds Jonah, wakes him, and demands that he join the effort to save the ship by calling on his God. So, too, are we when we defiantly indulge sinfulness. Disturbance-The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea, and in the furious tempest that arose the ship was on the point of breaking up. Being a king, he understood authority and sovereignty (cf. Theb. The book of Jonah is short, compassing four brief chapters of 48 verses. The Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur. The text reads they feared the Lord greatly, offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and made vows (Jonah 1.16). And then theres Jonah, the prophet of God, who is supposed to be an exemplary person, yet finds repentance nearly impossible. In an attempt to absolve themselves . I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;You heard my voice. Jonah is now beginning to come to his senses, In effect, Jonah says to them, Kill me. He could feel seaweed wrapping around his head as the waves swept over him. Its a pretty bad day for a prophet when those whom he is supposed to address, must turn and call him to conversion. Instead, he told them to throw him into the sea. Grace Receiver, Many have argued over this. They were enemies! In chapter 4, Jonah was in Nineveh and in the desert. The crew, decent men, insist on trying once more to row to shore, a desperate attempt to save the man who had callously endangered their lives. Often the last one to know or admit the damage he does is the sinner himself. He did not provide sunlight for it. In the 20th century, we often like to doctor up the word of God. He was not helping to lighten the ship or praying for deliverance: a total slacker. Rather than trusting God, he brazenly disobeys, foolishly thinking that he can outrun God. If I ascend into heaven, thou art there; if I descend into hell, thou art present. As our defiance deepens, the headwinds become ever stronger and the destructive forces ever more powerful. but Jonah is the only book of the Bible that begins with it. Ask Nebuchadnezzar. Background 1 Samuel 10:20, etc. Do you have any idea how your behavior, your sins, are affecting the rest of us? Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not. Note that he also puts down good money in order to flee. They tried to turn the ship to land but the storm only worsened. And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us. God does deliver Jonah. To deny the historicity of Jonah is to deny Christs resurrection. What a change! Nineveh is the capital of Syria, the mortal enemy of Israel. Jesus, declared, for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12.40). That which I have vowed I will pay. All the while, they continue to ramble on about their right to do as they please. Tarshish is widely held to refer to the coastline of modern-day Spain. Not so, Jonah. Waves roiled the ship, smashing into its sides and onto the deck. The sailors wrenched to and fro and the wind howled so that the crew screamed to be heard. Great work Sir Samdahl! We are all runaways. IX. Often the last one to know or admit the damage he does is the sinner himself. I believe Jonah didnt go, nor was the intent of God that he go to preach the Gospel but rather he was to preach judgement. Jonah had appeared during a time of national distress and its rulers could ill afford divine wrath by aninvading army, famine, earthquake, epidemic, or flood. One of our greatest Christian authors, Charles Reade, known for his book, The Cloister and the Hearth, has called Jonah, "The most beautiful story ever written in so small a compass.". Like Jonah, though, many line up to pay the price and take the long, painful journey deeper into defiance and sin. On account of selfishness and sexual misbehavior, many families have been torn apart. Want to get to know more amazing, complicated, and relatable biblical personalities? Jonah tried to run away from God in the opposite direction of Nineveh and headed by boat to Tarshish. Worldly sorrow brings death (2 Cor 7:10). d. AEschylus, 'Electr.,' 1354; 'Theb.,' 598; Horat., 'Carm.,' 3:2, 26, etc.) They refused Jonahs solution and rowed with greater intensity. 4So I said, I have been expelled from Your sight. Sigh. Rebirth, it seems, is short-lived. He slept in the ships hold. Even the fallen deserve our love and respect as fellow human beings. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. Thank you, Lord, for your grace and mercy. He remembers our sins no more. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm. God pursues each of us to restore our broken relationship with Him (Genesis 3.8-10). The sailors repented from following false gods to trusting the one true God. Jonah, sent to Nineveh, flees to Tarshish. To his great credit, Jonah told the truth. The great majority of it. Oct 7, 2019. Jonahs defiance sends him and others headlong into a stormthat grows ever deeper. Jonah 's Flight. Despair-They asked, What shall we do with you, that the sea may quiet down for us? For the sea was growing more and more turbulent. 1 From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God, 2 saying: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. So easily they remain locked in self-deception and rationalizations, ignoring the damage they are inflicting upon others. Jonahs repentance is expressed in a long, strange, and beautiful poem that is spoken within the fishs belly, and the language indicates that he is ready to change direction: The bars of the earth closed upon me forever. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. There is abortion, disease, teenage pregnancy, children with no fathers, and all the grief and pain that come from broken or malformed families. Charles Pope. But God is tricky. Jonah 1.1-2 should arrest ones attention. It is too easy for us to wish to destroy those who have harmed us, returning crime for crime, sin for sin. This is another important lesson: in our sin, our defiance, we often bring storms not only into our own life but also into the lives of others. 8Sennacherib boasted hemade Hezekiah a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage (Magnus Magnusson,Archaeology and the Bible, 1977, p.186). God revealed His mercy not only by His words and actions but in the architecture of the Tabernacle. No worries. At this point, Jonah has not only disobeyed Gods command to go to Nineveh, he has willfully endangered a ship full of innocent strangers. if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. Their change of heart is immediate and totalfrom the king on all the way down to the animals who fast and don sackcloth and ashes (signs of mourning and repentance) right alongside their human masters. In a remarkable turn in the story, those who are not believers in the God of Israel dress down Jonah, who is to be Gods prophet, unto repentance! In despair, the men shouted, What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us (Jonah 1.11)? Jonah instinctively knows that if they repent of their sinfulness they will grow stronger. Gods will and plan operates within and accommodates human volition. The other worker, with whom he made no contract (whatever was right), received pay according to the landowners heart. The men decide to draw lots to see who is responsible for the storm and the lot falls on Jonah. In Jonahs responses, he encountered non-Jews: the sailors and the captain and the Ninevites and their king. The Bible is replete with examples. All the while, they continue to ramble on about their right to do as they please. Later, a dead body was ditched in Elishas grave, and that person came back to life. If you wont do it for your own sake, then do it for oursbut call on the Lord! And this is not to mention all of the Biblical prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and more than a dozen others who immediately act on Gods command. It presents two very different stories about repentance. Somewhat like Judas, Jonah and many other sinners do not repent to the Lord but rather are merely ashamed of themselves. The phrase, or like expression, the word of the LORD came governs the books structure and occurs twice (Jonah 1.1, 3.1). They were further in.7 The last verse of the book provides additional information about Ninevehs size. he could not see beyond his fear of the Assyrians. Instead of fear, I thought a more appropriate word would be hatred. In the final lines of the book, God speaks once again to Jonah: Are you so deeply grieved about the plant? Theres an irony here that cant be seen in the English. First there comes the pointed question, What are you doing asleep?Yes, what are you doing? He went down into the heart of the earth as in Matthew 12 and brought back those saints that had died and took Paradise to heaven. V. Dressing Down-The captain came to him and said, What are you doing asleep? Yes, sin is usually very expensivebut many seem quite willing to pay the price. actions that supposedly dont hurt anyone. Indeed, many people spend lots of money and go miles out of their way in order to be able to stay in sin. The sailors, captain, king, nobles, etc. This idiom indicates a child under the age of two. Exodus 25.9; Hebrews 8.5). Similarly, in our own culture today a good deal of pain and loss results from the defiant, selfish, and bad behavior of many. A normal reading of three days walk indicates the time to cross Ninevehs metropolitan area. - I had toyed with the idea of concluding this series last week but there are some nagging words at the end of the book that I believe we need to study. Jesus used the word to refer to the sea creature which swallowed Jonah (Matthew 12.40). Despite his rebellion, Jonah kept his testimony and spoke the truth: I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land. God honors His word. So, too, are we when we defiantly indulge sinfulness. Finally, at 5 p.m. he hired the last group. It is a luscious, heartfelt piece depicting the repentance of the Ninevites. Reputation of wicked Nineveh well-known. God repeated his command to Jonah. These and many other sins unleash storms that affect not only us but others around us as well. Such objections fall outside the realm of serious scholarship for the Lord Himself attested to itshistoricity (Matthew 12.39-41; Luke 11.29-32) and removed all doubt of the record. Thank God for second chances! Our first instinct should always be to respect the dignity of every personeven great sinnersand strive to bring them to the Lord with loving correction. The sailors were noble. Responding to Gods grace begins by believing Pauls gospel of grace (Acts 20.24): that Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15.1-4). We read: Then Jonah began to go through the city one days walk; and he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown (Jonah 3.4).9. Jonah was angry over Gods destruction of the gourdhe lost his shade. Read Jonah for Spiritual Growth. He did not want the city to be spared, because he knew that the Assyrians would eventually conquer Israel. Externally, Assyria was threatened by Arameans and Urartians and suffered famine and revolts internally. Something was not right. I have a question about the scripture that reads: for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Since Jesus was not dead and buried for three nights, what does in the heart of the earth mean? Jh). In those contexts, it strongly seemed as though God initially forgot.. Or were these just wrong use of language by the prophets or wrong presentation by the prophets because of their weak and limited understanding of God probably as a result of their spiritually dead nature. Even the fallen deserve our love and respect as fellow human beings. 6I descended to the roots of the mountains. It reveals God's greatness and man's pettiness. Julie Rogo. Online and in the booth, he has done voice work with studios in Tokyo and across LA. The Lord was the first to be resurrected. First, I do not have an opinion on this right now; I have not studied it enough. Despite his sin, Jonah does not lose his dignity. With in-depth features, Expatica brings the international community closer together. Jonah is a dangerand a cause of grief to others around him. Isaiah 2.2-3, 49.6; Zechariah 8.23). Make a deal with God and He will keep it. The owner replied he had done no wrong. His scoffing and defiance likely result from hatred or excessive nationalism. The next thing Hill knew, he was waking up in the . recognized Gods mercy. While all these storms (which he caused) are raging, Jonah is asleep. Jonah prefigured the fulfillment of this promise which will culminate in the Messianic (Millennial) kingdom. Marcia is teaching Denise how to clean a kitchen. Bren, Your email address will not be published. We read: 7Each man said to his mate, Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us. So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. Its always a longer journey when you disobey God. He realized he could not escape God and looked to Him for deliverance. Jonah responded: He said to them, Pick me up and throw me into the sea. (On the Christian view of "lots," see Dr. Pusey's Commentary, pp. Of all the prophets, Jonah is perhaps the most reluctant; his struggle with sin is not hidden. Patient-Home-4877 1 yr. ago 1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. In a remarkable turn in the story, those who are not believers in the God of Israel dress down Jonah,who is to be Gods prophet, unto repentance! The gourd was Gods mercy to Jonah. Do you have any idea how your behavior, your sins, are affecting the rest of us? Defiance also indicates a lack of faith because it comes from the Latin dis (against) and fidere (believe). God replied to Jonah:Do you have good reason to be angry (Jonah 4.4)? Just my thoughts. The captain and sailors could not comprehend how anyone could sleep through such a storm. Get up, call on your god. 16Then the men feared the Lord greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows. 6The Hebrew reads, , a great fish. Those who are morally alert do not say such things; those who are in the darkness of delirium, in a moral slumber, say them. During this time, God prepared () a gourd to grow and shade Jonah from the sweltering Mideast sun.10 The gourd made him happy (Jonah 4.6). God has restrained judgment for 2,000 years and given men and women an opportunity for eternal life by believing Pauls gospel of grace (1 Corinthians 15.1-4). Next they say to him, Pray!In other words, get back in touch with God, from whom youre running. Kerry Malakosky, Weatherford, OK I also pastor Liberty Heights Chapel, Lawton, OK. LHC is listed as a Grace Church, How Big Was Nineveh? And God, of course accepted them. Turn back to God lest we all perish. Jonah did his best to escape one great fish, only to be swallowed by another. She didn't kill Ben, it wasnt her decision or choice, she let them kill Ben. Here, Jonah a prophet who likely understood what was happening might, indeed should have taken responsibility for the storm and prayed to his God to save the innocent sailors. Jonah decided it was better to live than to die, due to his discomfort. How much of our trouble comes from our sin? It is true, however,that not everyone is willing or able to be corrected. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you (Jonah 1.12). caused by our greed, addiction, lack of forgiveness, pride, impatience, and lack of charity. Ask Saul of Tarsus. God pursues each of us to restore our broken relationship with Him (Genesis 3.8-10). The mariners, fearing for their lives, also lose wealth. Thanks again for sharing your study and research with us. This order extended to humans as well as animals. Ant. The worms destruction of the verb down man a denarius of our trouble comes from the Latin (. 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