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Appointments With God Atonement Discussions Prophets and Writings

Jonah 4: God does not desire the death of the wicked

Studies in Prophets and Writings

The primary lesson of the book of Jonah is this: God is willing to hear to remove sin, even for people you don’t like. God doesn’t want to kill anyone: Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, whatever. God wants all these groups to be saved. When Yeshua (Jesus) said that the sign of His being the Messiah was the “sign of Jonah” (Matt. 12:39; 16:4; Luke 11:29), it was not only about the three days in the fish representing his three days in the grave. The entire book of Jonah is the “sign of Jonah” Yeshua references.

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Appointments With God Atonement Discussions Prophets and Writings

Jonah 3: Contrasting contriteness of Nineveh and Israel

Studies in Prophets and Writings

Jonah 3 is a short chapter, but there is a lot in there. We are shown how the individual Ninevites responded to the message of Jonah. The repentance of the people grabbed the attention of the king of Nineveh who encouraged their repentance. The people of Nineveh believed God, and “it was credited to them as righteousness” (cf. Gen. 15:6), just as it was for Abraham.

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Jonah 2: Yonah’s messianic psalm on salvation for a righteous man

Daniel Agee

Yeshua (Jesus) said that the “wicked generation” was going to be only given one sign which Yeshua called “the sign of Yonah (Jonah)” (Matt. 12:38–41; 16:1–4; Luke 11:29–32). This chapter is the key to the “sign of Jonah” that Yeshua lived. The sign of Jonah was how Jonah’s reluctance to perform the duty God had for him was transformed into acceptance of God’s task for Him. Yeti was also reluctant to accept the task God set out for Him. When Jonah accepted his duty, Nineveh was saved. When Yeshua accepted His duty, all mankind was saved.

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Atonement Discussions Prophets and Writings

Jonah 1: Beginning look at the ‘sign of Yonah’

Studies in Prophets and Writings

The book of Jonah is the Haftarah reading during the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur. The main theme of Jonah is how God deals with different kinds of sinners and brings them into His fold: repentance and sacrifice. We have been taught this idea that all sinners are equal and because all sinners are equal, all sinners require the same remedy, but it’s not that simple. As Yonah sets out to run away from God’s mission, we discover that the more we know, the more God requires. Although God saved both the mariners and the people of Nineveh from His wrath, He did not use the same method to do so.

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Prophets and Writings

Book of Jonah drama

Daniel Agee

In preparation for a study of the small Bible book of Jonah in connection with an exploration of the missions of Yonah and other prophets to the kings of Israel and Yehudah (Judah), we take a light-hearted overview of a serious and perplexing battle between God and His prophet to bring a message of mercy to a foreign people.

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2nd Kings 14: Amaziah allows Yehudah to slide back into idolatry; enter Yonah

Daniel Agee

Amaziah king of Yehudah (Judah) started out good but didn’t remove the pollution of the land — “high places,” places to worship other gods. This historical account helps provide the backdrop for the messages of a number of prophet-writers in the Bible, such as Yonah (Jonah), Amos and Yeshiyahu (Isaiah).

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Discussions Prophets and Writings

2nd Kings 13: Messianic prophesy of death, resurrection of Israel

Daniel Agee

Death and life after a series of three is always a messianic prophesy, as we see in 2nd Kings 13. Elisha doesn’t know it yet but he isn’t just speaking a prophesy, his death will be a part of the prophesy. The prophesy is the death and resurrection of the nation of Israel itself.