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Start again with the fact that Jonah is not fictitious.
This is how we are going to start this every week for our Jonah series.
Don’t get hung up on whether or not you can accept that a man could be swallowed by a great fish or a whale or whatever.
If you really have to clear this up for yourself, in your own mind then please remember who God is.
Remember that he is outside of time and space.
Remember that he spoke the universe into existence.
Remember that our faith hinges on the fact that Jesus was dead for 3 days and then physically came back to life.
The Christian faith is built on that one event.
And
If you have trouble believing that then I guess I can understand why you may have a hard time with Jonah and this story.
Because from a physical aspect, from a scientific aspect it doesn’t make sense.
But God is outside of all of those things.
But we have a miraculous God.
We cannot try to explain miracles scientifically because that makes them NON Miracles.
I want to trust my soul to the God that can raise people from the dead.
I want to place my life in the hands of the one who gave his life for me.
The one who walked on water, the one who said “Lazarus come out”.
If I place my trust in science then I make science my God.
I am not saying that I don’t recognize science, I certainly do.
But I also believe that God can and does work outside of our understanding of science.
One of my commentaries states that The debate about whether or not Jonah was swallowed by a whale has swallowed up biblical expositors at both ends of the spectrum.
Unfortunately, God’s deliverance of Jonah becomes secondary to the debate.
I think the debate about whether or not Jonah was swallowed by a whale has swallowed up biblical expositors at both ends of the spectrum.
Unfortunately, God’s deliverance of Jonah becomes secondary to the debate cite preachers commentary
Commentaries talk about modern day readers not being able to accept Jonah’s fate.
Some saying that it IS actually physically possible and that there have been those times when some whaler fell into the sea and a large sperm whale swallowed him whole and the next day they kill the whale and found the sailor alive inside but never right in the head. of course But even those fantastic stories usually ended up as made up.
But even those fantastic stories usually ended up as made up.
There are other modern scholars that say that what actually happened was that Jonah escaped the sea by staying at an inn called the fish.
We don’t know exactly what Jonah went through as he was inside of this fish.
Again, don’t know the details.
But either way, fish or whale it would have been horrible.
If it was a fish, a fish is cold blooded so that means that the internal temperature of the fish would be the same as the water surrounding that fish.
The sea that Jonah was in would have been the Mediterranean which in the winter, the Temp could be as low as 57, or at the highest temp in the summer would be 80 f.
That is cold.
I don’t know if you have spent an amount of time in cold water, but 80 degree water is still cold.
For an hour it’s okay, but three days...
Let ‘s say it was a warm blooded animal, like a whale.
The internal temp of a sperm whale is between 104-108.
Can you imagine?
Hot, sticky, slimy, smelly.
Either unbearingly cold or unbearlingly hot.
That is where Jonah was.
And don’t even get me started with the close confines.
I am not really claustrophobic, but I am a little claustrophobic.
Just thinking about the close quarters in this animal skeeves me out a little.
And it’s dark in there.
Really dark.
What do you do in there?
What do you do in this stinky, wet, smelly disgusting dark place?
You pray.
That’s what Jonah did.
That’s what he should have done.
This story is not about a whale, or a fish or really even the prophet.
The subject of the verse is the LORD.
Look at verse 17
17The Lord sent
The Lord sent.
We will come to understand that this is the love of God for Jonah and for the Ninevites that Jonah is supposed to preach to.
There is a way that you can go.
There is an easy way and there is a hard way.
Jonah was given a task that he flat out ran away from.
Now, Jonah is in the belly of the fish.
Now remember, God put him there.
The subject of the verse is the LORD.
The Lord sent
Jonah is in the belly of the fish.
It is within these confines that Jonah experiences TRUE freedom.
Please know that our God is so loving.
His plan is so powerful and He loves you so much he will do anything to get your attention.
God may use any means to get your attention
It could be anything.
It could be a loss, it could be a sickness, it could be a scare, it could be a falling out.
But God loves you so much that He is willing to do whatever it takes to get his children back where they belong.
In His care, in His arms.
God sends a fish to swallow Jonah.
Jonah finally cries to God.
He prays and is truly at God’s mercy.
God doesn’t HAVE to take care of Jonah.
Jonah submits to the Father.
And please remember that this isn’t God’s judgement on Jonah, this is God’s plan.
saying,
“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3  For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6  at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed
Jonah is done for.
He is as good as dead
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O LORD my God.
7  When my life was fainting away,
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