Nineveh hears God’s word - The LORD’s word came to Jonah a second time: “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and declare against it the
go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with th...
Matthew 12:41. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonahishere. You all remember what happened in Nineveh. They were a wicked a perverse people, and Jonah was se...
Jonah absolutely did not want to do that! So he fled, sailing fast in the opposite direction. But after a miraculous journey in a great fish, he ended up back on land and on the road to Nineveh. He realized that he had no choice but to go where God had sent him. When he arrived...
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand. (Jonah 4:11) Discernment is a Sign of Maturity But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by ...
Jonah wanted the Lord to be a judgment juggernaut – not a gracious God. And yet, around 150 years later, God’s judgment does come for Nineveh, but through a different prophet – the prophet Nahum. This is what Nahum has to say: ...
God called Jonah to go to Nineveh but Jonah fled to Tarshish and got on a ship in Joppas. Lord sent a great wind that created a big storm and the men on their ship were praying to their gods and throwing off anything they could off the ship but Jonah had gone to the bottom of ...
Even God Himself was merciful to Nineveh and cancelled the threatened punishment when he saw their repentance (Jonah 3). God deals with us in severity and in kindness - and so must we, with our children. Using the rod or the belt on our children is not the only form of punishment. We...
I kind of had to laugh when I read chapter 4 (bear with me here), after Jonah sees that God averted disaster for Nineveh because of its earnest repentance: But to Jonah it seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I wa...
as does the Scripture when Nineveh repented and avoided God’s prophesied destruction forty days later. Jonah lamented that God’s mercy superseded His prophecy (though it did!). And Settled View proponents seem to suggest they would do likewise. Calvinists always bring up Judas, suggesting tha...