Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites, Nineveh Repents

[Walter and Deborah]

Sunday 8-30-20 Elul 10, 5780 1st. day of the weekly cycle, 71st. Summer day

 

Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites, Nineveh Repents: Jonah Three:1-10

 

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Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites

 

1And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

 

Nineveh Repents

 

5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

 

10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

 

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Jonah's Anger at the Lord's Compassion

 

1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

 

5So 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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

 

9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

 

Love always, Walter and Debbie

[Novus]

I sometimes wonder what type of person Jonah must have been to have convinced a whole city through his preaching (obviously with God's anointing). He convinced them because they took his message seriously - they listened and repented.

I love God's compassion for those people who were confused as to right or wrong - "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand" (verse 11). 

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[Walter and Deborah]

1 hour ago, Novus said:

I sometimes wonder what type of person Jonah must have been to have convinced a whole city through his preaching (obviously with God's anointing). He convinced them because they took his message seriously - they listened and repented.

I love God's compassion for those people who were confused as to right or wrong - "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand" (verse 11). 

Also it put me to remember when Peter in Acts 2:14-47

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[other one]

Personally I'm on Jonah's side here.   God didn't say anything about not overthrowing them if they didn't repent....   he told him to go tell them they were doomed.....    and Jonah knew God would not do it if they repented but God sent him anyway.....    and technically made a false prophet out of him....    and that's serious...    Who would ever trust his word again...   I'm just saying that I understand Jonah's stand here.  Is it OK to lie to people??

 

[teddyv]

God sends a messenger to the most hated of all of Israel's conquerors and they repent when preached to... ouch.

[BeauJangles]

Jonah also looked a wreck after being undigested in the stomach lining of the great fish and he was drenched in bile, disgusting fish phlegm, and other acidic upper intestinal juices. Yes, he was a real mess! So, first he needed a new robe, sandals, and head covering. Also a shampoo, rinse, conditioner, set, and style, was essential before being allowed in to see the king of Nineveh. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been presentable. No one gets to see his Majesty of Nineveh looking like a tramp on the streets. They would have probably thrown him out the palace!

         

  

        

   

[BeauJangles]

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Aww... no problem, bro.  It's happened to the best of us. The real "Worthy Whammy" is when you make multiple posts thinking you only made one. I've posted the same thing 5 times once! Oh, the humiliation!