Day 84 - Jonah 1

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Jonah 1  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
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We begin a most interesting book today. Everyone in the book shines, but Jonah! We’ve loved this story since we were small, because it is so easy to understand: a fish swallows a man, it swims to shore and out comes the man! Alive and well. But when we are older, we look at the story and learn that it is so big in its meaning that we can see Christ going into death and coming back to life. Even that Jonah was the first Hebrew prophet sent to the Gentiles with a message. And further that Jonah is a picture of the Jewish nation utterly, hopelessly lost, and Nineveh is a picture of the whole world hearing a message from God through a Jew!
V.1-3 He is told by the Lord to go to the great Gentile city of Nineveh, and tell the people that God saw all their wickedness, and that the city would be destroyed in 40 days.
V.4-17 But Jonah runs away from the Lord. Did you ever do that? Did you ever feel that you should speak to someone about their soul, and then you didn’t? Did God let Jonah do what he wanted? Yes. He let him go the whole way, even letting the men throw him into the sea.
V.17 But! What kindness of the Lord!