“And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd [...]
“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”—Jonah 3:9.
This was the forlorn hope of the Ninevites: “Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?” The book of Jonah should be exceedingly [...]
“Salvation is of the Lord.”—Jonah 2:9.
Jonah learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale’s belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed that the earth with her bars was about him for ever. Most of the grand truths [...]
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord.”-Jonah 2:7.
When man was first made, there was no fear of his forgetting God for it was
his highest privilege and delight to have communion with his Maker. “The Lord
God walked in the garden in the cool of the day,” and Adam was privileged to
hold fellowship with [...]
Introduction
In great contrast to Jesus, the seeking Savior, Jonah illustrates what a missionary should not be. He was prejudiced, selfish, and disobedient. Yet the book named after him is instructive: it contrasts what Jonah was with what a missionary should be, representing God’s concern for the lost versus Israel’s indifference. It also shows that God’s [...]
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“But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.”—Jonah 1:5-6.
Of all the men [...]
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