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Jonah 3:5 & 9-10 & 4:1-2 ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed
God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest
of them even to the least of them.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do
unto them; and he did it not.
4:1 ¶ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD,
was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I
fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious
God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and
repentest thee of the evil.
Jonah has pity on a plant but not on the Gentile people of Nineveh.
What I love is the depiction on the people of Nineveh being so
dumb that don’t know left from right hand, which hints they are to
dumb to know right from wrong. Interestingly the Assyrian’s later
in history accept Christ and become a large and great church.
The lesson to be deducted out of the book of Jonah is that the
LORD is merciful, kind and slow to anger even with dumb sinners.
The Apostle Paul is also a subject study on this theme that God is
reluctant in judgment, and abundant in mercy. Saul later renamed
Paul is a Pharisee who persecutes the church. He is a Christian
killer.
The LORD thinks different than we do. The LORD is going to take
a man whose desire is to destroy the church and make this man one
of the most important spokesmen for the church. The LORD has a
way to turn what seems like disaster into blessing.
Paul on his way to Damascus meets the LORD, lets read.
Acts 9:1-9 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the LORD, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that
if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he
might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from heaven:
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, LORD? And the LORD said, I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
pricks.
6 And he trembling and astonished said, LORD, what wilt thou
have me to do? And the LORD said unto him, Arise, and go into
the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened,
he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into
Damascus.
9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor
drink.
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