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Bible Story Summary of the Book of Jonah

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Bible Story Summary of the Book of Jonah

But the commission that has been given to us is no less demanding than Jonah's, if we are Christians, and often our attempts to avoid it are no less determined than his were. What was Jonah's commission? It consisted of three main words. He was told to "arise. We are to arise from wherever we happen to be seated.

We are to go into all the world. And we are to cry against the world's wickedness, teaching it all that we have been taught by Jesus. Matthew's form of the Great Commission says, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" Matthew Wings of Dawn Verse three tells us of Jonah's attempt to get away from God, and it gives us the consequences of that attempt. It is surprising that Jonah did not know of these consequences before he ran or consider how impossible it is to escape God. We must remember at this point that Jonah lived relatively late in Old Testament history, certainly long after the psalms were written, and that he therefore knew or had ample opportunity to know those great words in Psalm Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast" Psalm Did Jonah know these words? Then why did he not remember them as he set out in the ship for Tarshish? As I read that psalm I find myself wondering if the name of the ship upon which Jonah set out might not have been The Wings of Dawn.

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The story does not give the name of the ship. But that is a good name for a ship; and if the ship of the book of Jonah were so named, it would be an irony well suited to Jonah's situation. Did he notice the name, if this is what it was? Did he notice the rats getting off as he stepped on?

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And we are to cry against the world's wickedness, teaching it all that we have been taught by Jesus. Supposing I told you that the man was more concerned about his dead weed than about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and cattle. Watch The Full Episode. The Bible tells us that, "For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard" Romans 3: Listen to this story Jesus told. He would have said that he was improving his lot in life, just as we also do when we choose our own course instead of God's.

If I understand sin and disobedience at all, I suspect that Jonah noticed none of these things, so set was he in this folly. No more do we when we take our "wings of dawn" to sail away from God across life's sea. For built into Jonah's first attempts to get away from God are two results which will inevitably follow whenever anyone tries to disobey Him. These results are in verse three, that is, one verse before the one that tells of God's special intervention in sending the storm after Jonah's ship. God has His special interventions too.

But the fact that these occur before this indicates that they are as inevitable in spiritual matters as physical laws are in the physical universe. The first result is that Jonah's course was downhill. He would not have described it that way. He would have said that he was improving his lot in life, just as we also do when we choose our own course instead of God's. But it was downhill nevertheless. In verse three, we are told that Jonah went "down" to Joppa and that having paid his fare he went "down" into the ship see Jonah 1: This is not accidental in a story in which the words are as carefully chosen as this one.

Nor are these two instances of the word "down" isolated. Two verses farther on, in verse five KJV , we are told that Jonah had gone "down" into the sides of the ship, that is, below decks. Then in chapter 2, verse 6 KJV , in a prayer which takes place after Jonah has been thrown overboard by the sailors, Jonah describes how he had gone "down" to the bottom of the earth's mountains beneath the waves. That is a lot of going down! Down, down, down, down. But it is always that way when a person runs from the presence of the Lord. The way of the Lord is up!

Consequently, any way that is away from Him is down.

The way may look beautiful when we start. The seas may look peaceful and the ship attractive, but the way is still down. There is another result. In his excellent preaching on Jonah, Donald Grey Barnhouse often called attention to this by highlighting the phrase "he paid his fare" KJV. He noted that Jonah did not get to where he was going, since he was thrown overboard, and that he obviously did not get a refund on his ticket.

So he paid the full fare and did not get to the end of his journey. Now, says Barnhouse, it is always that way. On the other hand, when you go the Lord's way you always get to where you are going, and He pays the fare. Jonah illustrates one-half of that statement. The story of Moses' mother, Jochebed, illustrates the other half. Jochebed conceived Moses during a time of great persecution by the Egyptians, a time in which the young male children were being thrown into the river to die. When the child was born, Jochebed and her husband, Amram, tried to hide him as long as possible, suspecting, I believe, that this was the one who had been promised by God to be the deliverer of the people.

But at last the baby's cries grew too loud, and another plan was necessary. The mother made a little boat of bulrushes, covering it with tar. She placed Moses in it and set it in the reeds by the river's bank. Then she stationed Moses' sister, Miriam, at a distance to see what would become of him. Though she wanted her baby more than anything else in the world, Jochebed trusted the matter to God, allowing Him to do as He wished with her and the child. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to the river, and when she saw the ark in the water she sent her maids to fetch it.

When it was opened she saw the baby.

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This so touched the woman's heart that she determined to save him and raise him in the palace. But what was she to do? Obviously the child needed a wet nurse. Where could she find one? At this point, Miriam, who had been watching from a distance, came forward and asked if she could be of assistance. At this point Jochebed is about to receive back the child she most dearly wanted. The workers found Jonah in the bottom of the ship asleep. They awakened him and asked him to pray to his God to protect them.

The men cast lots to see who had brought this punishment upon them even though Jonah knew it was his fault. The lot fell upon Jonah. He confessed that he was a Hebrew and was running away from the Creator God. Jonah asked the men to throw him overboard. Instead they tried harder to bring the ship to land. Jonah finally convinced them that he was the one who had brought judgment from God. Perhaps Jonah thought that if he were dead then God would stop punishing the ones around him.

The sailors agreed to throw him into the sea. As soon as Jonah was tossed into the water the storm broke and everything was calm.

The sailors probably had no idea what happened next. Jonah went into the water, but not to be killed by drowning.

Instead he was swallowed by a great fish Jesus called it a whale in Matthew Jonah awoke in the belly of the fish and cried out to God. He confessed his disobedience and told God that he would accomplish the task that the Lord had called him to. God then instructed the whale to vomit Jonah out onto dry ground. After finding himself alive and on dry land, Jonah ran to the city of Nineveh. God knew that they needed a preacher to show them the error of their wickedness, but Jonah knew that God was merciful and would forgive them if they asked.

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Even though Jonah preached to the people, he was not happy. He climbed to the top of a mountain to watch the Lord destroy the city. Because of their repentance God did not destroy them.