Jonah - Part 3
Jonah obeys God, goes
to Nineveh and learns more lessons.
For previous studies
on Jonah 1 go here, for Jonah 2 go here.
In Jonah 2 we learned
how Jonah was swallowed by the great fish, whom the Lord Jesus called a whale,
that the LORD had prepared for this task.
We learned how Jonah came to the end of himself, and prayed to the LORD his
God. We learned how Jonah made that
great statement "Salvation is of the LORD." and how the LORD spoke to
the fish, and Jonah was vomited onto dry land.
We don't know if Jonah's appearance was altered or not, the bible is silent on this point, so I will
not speculate.
And so again 3:1 "the word of the LORD came unto
Jonah the second time saying Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and
preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." This time Jonah is
obedient. He went to Nineveh "according
to the word of the LORD" V3 also
tells us that Nineveh "was an exceeding great city of three days'
journey." This does not mean that
Nineveh was three days away from Jonah, for the next verse tells us "And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, V4 "Yet forty days, and
Nineveh shall be overthrown." It
took three days to walk through the city of Nineveh, so great a city was it, it
was filled with wickedness, and for three days Jonah walked through the city
preaching God's message V4 "yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown..
