EXAMINATION CONSIDERATIONS 1. Why would God send a prophet of Israel to a great heathen city like Nineveh? 2. Do you think the literal meaning of Jonah's name, dove, has any symbolical significance concerning his mission? 3. Is there sufficient evidence to establish the historicity of the exp... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DISPLEASURE OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 4:1-3 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish;... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DEMONSTRATION BY JEHOVAH TEXT: Jonah 4:4-10 4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would b... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DECLARATION OF JEHOVAH TEXT: Jonah 4:11 11 and should I not have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? QUERIES a. Why... [ Continue Reading ]