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Introduction
The book of Jonah is about what happened to a prophet of God and an Assyrian city, Nineveh.
But the theme of the book is:
God’s grace and love extends to everyone, even oppressors because the grace and love of God are not earned, they are God’s gift to give to whom He will.
Nineveh was part of the Assyrian Empire.
The Assyrian Empire fought with Israel on several occasions.
They were enemies.
Yet, God sent one of His prophets, Jonah, to make an appeal to them so they, too, could turn to the True and Living God for salvation.
Jonah was the son of Amittai of Zebulun.
His prophetic career lasted approximately 39 years (786-747 BC).
He had a major role during the reign of King Jeroboam II (793-753 BC), when Israel experienced prosperity, expansion, accompanied by moral decline.
Despite the corruption, Jonah remained a zealous patriot.
It is not hard to imagine one of the reasons for Jonah’s reluctance to go to Nineveh was because he knew God was going to use Assyria to punish Israel for their sins.
Why save an enemy who will destroy your own country?
No other prophet was so strongly Jewish (cf.
his classic confession, Jon 1:9), yet no other prophet’s ministry was so strongly directed to a non-Jewish nation.
Jonah’s sermon to Nineveh was delivered in five words or eight words in most English translations of the bible.
The book of Jonah can be understood by its chapters.
Chapter 1 - God calls and Jonah flees
Chapter 2 - Jonah’s prayer in the fish
Chapter 3 - Nineveh repents at Jonah’s preaching
Chapter 4 - Jonah’s anger and God’s response
Our focus is on Chapter 2, Jonah’s prayer.
We do not know how long Jonah was in the fish before he prayed.
All we know is that he was there for three days and three nights.
In fact, Jesus used Jonah’s experience in the fish to describe his own experience in the grave:
v. 2 - I cried out to God in my great trouble AND GOD HEARD ME
This despite the fact I am the one that put myself where I am...
-God threw Jonah out of his presence (vs. 3)
-The whole mess was Jonah’s fault (Chapter 1)
In this case, death is what I deserved...
But because you intervened, I remembered...
My response: Because of what you did for me, I will continually be thankful and live right before you from here on [pay my vows]
Jonah took the three day journey inland to the city of Nineveh and delivered an eight word sermon:
Effective...
His anger was driven by self...
Still, God continued to reach out to grow Jonah:
God’s grace and love extends to everyone, even oppressors because the grace and love of God are not earned, they are God’s gift to give to whom He will.
In this season of Thanksgiving:
Do not forget to say to God:
THANK YOU!
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