When God first called Jonah to go to Nineveh, Jonah instead headed to Tarshish, which is in the opposite direction. He wanted nothing to do with Nineveh, for they were enemies of Israel. God wanted to show them mercy and in order to show them mercy they needed to hear the message of repentance. Jonah…

God called Jonah to go to Nineveh, the capital city of the nation Assyria. Nineveh was in a period of brief decline, yet was a great city and the Assyrian army was still quite powerful. Nineveh would rise in power again but at the time God called Jonah it was experiencing a bit of decline.…

God called Jonah to be a prophet, and to go to Nineveh to proclaim coming judgment—or coming mercy, should they repent. Jonah refused and went the opposite direction on a ship. God sent a great storm to put Jonah back on track but during the storm Jonah was busily disobeying God by sleeping. When the…

Last week we took a look at a sleeping Jonah. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, the capital city of Assyria. Jonah was to warn them and announce mercy and forgiveness if they would repent. God wanted to show mercy to the Ninevites, so Jonah took off in the opposite direction in a ship,…

We all know the story of Jonah. God tells him to go to Nineveh so that he may show them mercy if (when) they repent but Jonah doesn’t like Nineveh so he heads in the opposite direction. A storm comes up and the crew tosses Jonah into the water where a large fish swallows him…