JONAH RUNNING WITH GOD Jonah Three __ Have you ever messed up really bad? What would you do if given a second chance to deal with the same opportunity? Jonah was given a second chance to go preach to Nineveh. Each day that we live provides us with another "second" opportunity to get right with God... [ Continue Reading ]
_JONAH GOES TO NINEVEH TO PREACH -- JONAH 3:1-3:_ How relieved Jonah must have been to have been restored to dry land. After three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, "the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." (Jonah 2:10) Again the Lord renewed His... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED-- JONAH 3:4-5:_ Jonah went a day's journey into the city of Nineveh and then began his preaching. It sounds as if he reached the thickly populated part of town and then started his work. He warned the people, "Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed!" This was... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED -- JONAH 3:6-8:_ Just Jonah saying those words, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" would likely not have brought about this change among the people. There must have been something done or actions to make the people understand what this was all about. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD REPENTED OR CHANGED HIS MIND -- JONAH 3:9-10:_ The message was, "You must also pray to the Lord God with all your heart and stop being sinful and cruel. Maybe God will change his mind and have mercy on us, so we won't be destroyed." God does not want people to die lost and hopeless. He is graci... [ Continue Reading ]