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1 | What happend to Jonah? | Nah 1:1 | Rolff | 207240 | ||
Your question is unknown but I can answer as a man with the same mindset. Melancholy personalities tend to be perfectionists and thinkers; they are party poopers that can always see the worst in mankind and the most negative future. When things don’t go the way they want, they ask for death—“because things are going to get worse anyway.” Elijah was most likely a melancholy personality. God did not kill Elijah as he asked in 1 Kings 19:4, but used him for many years as his servant before taking him up in a chariot only to be seen hundreds of years later as part of the Transfiguration in Matthew 17:3. [Jonah and Elijah probably knew each other and worked together. See 2 Kings 10:17 and 2 Kings 14:25, word of mouth says the servant in 1 Kings 18:43 was Jonah.] The book of Jonah is not a finished book. There are no nice ending to Jonah. Chapter four is half-way through a narrative about a gourd—God interrupts—and the book is over with us wanting more. God does not choose to give an ending to this book. I personally believe God doesn’t answer these stupid depressed prayers. He did not give Elijah his request in 1 Kings 19. He has never given me my request and I doubt He gave Jonah his request of death. Jonah had to learn to live with God’s goodness and hopefully, sitting there on the side of the cliff listening to happy people in Nineveh, with a withered gourd, he learned that God is good. God is good all the time. |
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2 | What happend to Jonah? | Nah 1:1 | Beja | 207257 | ||
I believe the book of Jonah finished exactly when it intended to. The book of Jonah is a message to God's people. Not to ninevah. The repentance of Ninivah is nothing more than a piece of the plot in which the true message is given. The point of the book is the attitude that God's people had adopted. An attitude that quite literally was content to watch all other nations go to hell. The last chapter that so many people don't get is actually the key chapter to the entire book. In this last chapter it is finally revealed clearly what the problem has been throughout the entire book. Jonah was consumed with his hatred of Ninivah. The problem originally would have been assumed that Jonah feared them and so he ran. But finally and clearly it is revealed that Jonah did not want them to have God's mercy, he wanted them to die in judgement. God's people reading the story of Jonah were suppose to see themselves reflected in Jonah's attitude. There should have been a "wow, that is us" moment. The story ends at that moment of realization and at the moment of showing how contrary that is to God's heart, and then the reader is left to repent of it. That is the point of Jonah. | ||||||
3 | What happend to Jonah? | Nah 1:1 | humbledbyhisgrace | 207260 | ||
Greetings Beja, "wow, that is us" I wonder how often we today have the same reaction when reading the word of God and also when we see the sinfulness in others??? It seems to me the reminders of who we are and what sin has done to us is everywhere! None of us excluded from it! Praise God, a constant reminder of our desperate need of our Saviour, the beloved Son!!! A little humor, I told my Pastor last Sunday if he would stop preaching just to me every Sunday the visitors might come back if they felt like they were included :-) Steve |
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