Jonah Submits to the Lord Chapter 3
Jonah Delivers God’s Message (3:1-4) The theme of repentance and deliverance will be carried along further by Jonah’s actions and deliverance. This will be the second calling that YHWH is commanding of Jonah to go to Nineveh to proclaim the message of God. (Vs. 3:1-3) The Lord is relying on Jonah to obey his word and Jonah leaves without delay. (vs.3) Jonah arrives in the city and he begins to preach, he utters very the only words of prophecy in the book, “Yet Forty day and Nineveh shall be overthrown”! (Vs. 3-4)” [10] as little these words were these very exact words has great impact on the people and are ready to repent!
God’s wrath is withheld (3:5-10) God is moving through the hearts of the people in fact the their king orders not _____________________
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God is disappointed by this turn of events, but God makes Jonah examine himself and does not condemn him. Still Jonah leaves and sits on the east of the City and made himself a hut and sat in comfortable shade. He looks down upon this once evil city and hopes that they will rebel and he will see.) or else hoping that God would overthrow them despite their repentance. The LORD God begins to teach Jonah an important lesson here. Firstly, he makes a plant grow up overnight which provides Jonah with much welcomed shade and he is delighted. The lesson here is that God controls all, “He “appointed” the plant, just as He appointed the big fish (1:17) and he would appoint the worm (vs 7) and the wind (vs 8). “[14] The prophets paradise is short lived because the Lord sends a pest to eat the plant which leaves Jonah exposed scorching heat. However, this is not meant for us to feel any type of sorry for Jonah because he is stationed there in hopes of Nineveh’s
Jonah Delivers God’s Message (3:1-4) The theme of repentance and deliverance will be carried along further by Jonah’s actions and deliverance. This will be the second calling that YHWH is commanding of Jonah to go to Nineveh to proclaim the message of God. (Vs. 3:1-3) The Lord is relying on Jonah to obey his word and Jonah leaves without delay. (vs.3) Jonah arrives in the city and he begins to preach, he utters very the only words of prophecy in the book, “Yet Forty day and Nineveh shall be overthrown”! (Vs. 3-4)” [10] as little these words were these very exact words has great impact on the people and are ready to repent!
God’s wrath is withheld (3:5-10) God is moving through the hearts of the people in fact the their king orders not _____________________
10 Hinckley Gilbert Thomas Mitchell, John Merlin, A Critical And Exegetical Commentary …show more content…
God is disappointed by this turn of events, but God makes Jonah examine himself and does not condemn him. Still Jonah leaves and sits on the east of the City and made himself a hut and sat in comfortable shade. He looks down upon this once evil city and hopes that they will rebel and he will see.) or else hoping that God would overthrow them despite their repentance. The LORD God begins to teach Jonah an important lesson here. Firstly, he makes a plant grow up overnight which provides Jonah with much welcomed shade and he is delighted. The lesson here is that God controls all, “He “appointed” the plant, just as He appointed the big fish (1:17) and he would appoint the worm (vs 7) and the wind (vs 8). “[14] The prophets paradise is short lived because the Lord sends a pest to eat the plant which leaves Jonah exposed scorching heat. However, this is not meant for us to feel any type of sorry for Jonah because he is stationed there in hopes of Nineveh’s