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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Jonah. Now Jonah was a prophet that many people are aware of because though he was a prophet to a gentile nation, the nation of Nineveh, he was well known for a fish story.
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- Jonah is the prophet who fled God and chose to try to disobey
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- God and wanted to run from telling the Ninevites about the message that God had.
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- Why? Because, well, Jonah did not like the Ninevites. They were the enemies.
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- And he ends up saying at the end of chapter four that the reason he did not want to go to Nineveh is because he knew
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- God was a God of mercy. In other words, Jonah knew that when he delivered the message to the
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- Ninevites, they would repent and God would show mercy. He did not want them to have mercy.
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- So you end up seeing in chapter one, he's running from the will of God. He ends up being thrown into the sea, being swallowed by a fish.
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- God redirects him and that fish stays there for three days. He's praying.
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- He realizes what he did wrong. God has the fish spit him out. He goes to Nineveh. He preaches the message.
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- The king and all the Ninevites, well, not all every single individual, but enough of them that it says all of Nineveh repents.
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- They repent and God shows mercy. And you end up seeing Jonah up on a mountain waiting for the destruction and it doesn't happen.
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- He gets upset. Why? Because he wanted God's judgment on them. But God is a
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- God of mercy. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org
