creativemechanic Posted December 10, 2017 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1,273 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 518 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/22/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted December 10, 2017 I love how reading bible stories shows usthat people will always be people and personalities havent changed much since the beginning. Take Jonah for instance.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativemechanic Posted December 10, 2017 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1,273 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 518 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/22/2014 Status: Offline Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 6 hours ago, Yowm said: Jonah exits stage left, and God dumps him back on stage right. LOL. lol. what gets me if he still ended up where he ran from. alot less comfortable too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 951 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,565 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,045 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Has not Jonah been well used of the LORD to teach all that read, pray, think, and try to heed, an even greater lesson than to follow His instruction? A much greater message perhaps, that it is not the created being's place to direct and to limit the mercy of God upon whomever God sees fit to extend it. Should not the saint in Christ Jesus be following also by the forgiving 7 times 70 if necessary the tresspasses of others, and asking forgivenness of one's own sins against God acted out in one's own trespasses? Jonah's Anger and the Lord's Compassion But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 347 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,462 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,375 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted December 11, 2017 I wonder if Jonah ate any more of what ate him I couldn't resist, and technically a whale is not a fish, so there... But seriously, he still had so much hate for Nineveh even after the whale vomited him out. So much so, that he'd rather lose his life than to warn Nineveh. I don't recall the Bible saying why Jonah had so much hatred in his heart towards them, do you? On a side note: I believe the USA is having a Nineveh moment also, a temporary reprieve of judgment, and I don't believe it will last a century either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 951 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,565 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,045 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted December 11, 2017 20 minutes ago, Dennis1209 said: I wonder if Jonah ate any more of what ate him I couldn't resist, and technically a whale is not a fish, so there... But seriously, he still had so much hate for Nineveh even after the whale vomited him out. So much so, that he'd rather lose his life than to warn Nineveh. I don't recall the Bible saying why Jonah had so much hatred in his heart towards them, do you? On a side note: I believe the USA is having a Nineveh moment also, a temporary reprieve of judgment, and I don't believe it will last a century either. "And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 347 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,462 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,375 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted December 11, 2017 7 hours ago, Neighbor said: "And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." Yes sir, that's what the Bible plainly states. However, back then did they sub-divide ocean species of aquatic animals like the divisions of today? Between fish, dolphins, seals and mammals? Then again, a 'grouper' or other 'fish' could have been big enough to swallow a human back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 951 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,565 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,045 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Dennis1209 said: Yes sir, that's what the Bible plainly states. However, back then did they sub-divide ocean species of aquatic animals like the divisions of today? Between fish, dolphins, seals and mammals? Then again, a 'grouper' or other 'fish' could have been big enough to swallow a human back then. Yes, and personally, I think God "appointed", made a one off fish just for that purpose. -A custom fish like no other. if it were a carp, or a drum, or a shark, or even a whale, I think men of the sea would have described it as such and so would Jonah. If it were kown by specifies would it not have been recorded that way? Hmm, maybe not, were the catch of the day of the disciples called out by name of species? Maybe there were many in the nets. Edited December 11, 2017 by Neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted December 11, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 347 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,462 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,375 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Neighbor said: Yes, and personally, I think God "appointed", made a one off fish just for that purpose. -A custom fish like no other. if it were a carp or a drum or a shark I think men of the sea would have described it as such and so would Jonah. Could very well be. We or I anyway, are conditioned to think in terms of today, and what ocean critter would be big enough to swallow a man whole. And as far as I know, a whale would be the only one. Now that you mentioned it, it brings something to mind I think I read somewhere maybe in the Bible, that the 'fish' was specially created for Jonah to swallow him? Or I read a commentary or something? Edited December 11, 2017 by Dennis1209 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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