Jonah was running from God. God caught him in the belly of a fish. NOW Jonah prays. He gives honor to the Lord, asks for forgiveness, and promises to do better. The first thing I wonder about when reading Jonah’s story is WHEN did he finally call out to God? We don’t see him calling […]
Jonah has gone overboard because his sin brought the storm down on the sailors. But God had already made preparations for this! God is NOT a ‘last minute, fly by the seat of your pants’ kind of God. He prepares LONG in advance and waits until just the right moment to bring about His plans. […]
The storm is threatening to take the lives of those on the ship. All are crying to their gods. When Jonah says that it is His God doing this. God answers them in an unmistakable way. We read in many places where Israel cast lots to determine God’s will. One place that jumps boldly to […]
God has spoken to Jonah and given him explicit directions. Jonah does NOT want this job so he is running away. God doesn’t give up. We don’t know a lot of Jonah’s background. We know his father’s name and that he hears from God. We will see later that he is a Hebrew. In other […]
God tells the people, through Obadiah, that they will one day posses ALL the Promised Land. The old boundaries will be made new again. When Joshua and the Israelites first came into the Promised Land, God had given them boundaries for it. Those boundaries never came to fruition. There were places where they could not […]