Jonah’s story is not that different from mine and yours. No, I haven’t been eaten by a fish (though I still have pain from a fight with our dog once), and you haven’t either. But, really, that’s not the point of the story. Sure, we teach our kids about “Jonah and the Great Fish” (or […]
Continuing through the Old Testament Minor Prophets, we come to the short – but packed – story of Jonah. Outside of this little book, the prophet Jonah appears in the Bible only twice. The first is an obscure reference in 2 Kings 14:25 The only other reference to Jonah is in the New Testament (Matthew
We finish our series in Jonah today with chapter 4. Jonah had finally preached to the people of Nineveh, they repented, and God spared them. This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry. لعبت روليت (4:1) There are two word plays in this verse that are worth mentioning. First, it says, literally, that “it
