Jonah

What is the date of Jonah

760 bc

What does Jonah mean

Dove

In what year did they find ancient Nineveh

1842

Johnic came from what city

The city is 2.5 mi Northeast of Nazareth

What tribe is he from

Gath-hepher

Zebulin

Jonah was a prophet to which Kingdom

He was just before what prophet

Northern

Amos

Why do some people believe Jonah did not write? Jonah?

T/f it is uncommon for OT writers to write in third person

Because it is written in third person

Flase-it is common

Jonah is the perfect picture of a

Backslid and Christian

Jonah predicted that Israel's boundaries would expand under who, and it did come true?

jeroboam II

What does the son of Amittai mean

My true one

Where was Jonah serving when God called the prophet for an unusual work

During jeroboam II

T/f The title son of amitai has the distinction of being the only Old testament prophet to attempt to run from God.

True

Jonah's character has been described as what two things

Self-Determined

Self-centered

Too commendable characteristics of Jonah were

His frankness

His honesty

True or false. Jonah was guilty of hypocrisy

False

What kind of Outlook did Jonah have

Narrow

Jonah was _, he was totally unconcerned about the spiritual condition of those outside of Israel

Nationalististic

True or false despite all of Jonah's faults, he was still teachable

True

Who was God preparing to punish Israel's wickedness amidst God's protection

Assyria

God prepared what- that was visible in Assyria on January 15th. 763 BC

God probably used these to prepare Nineveh for Jonah's message in 760, BC

Two plagues and a solar eclipse

How much in Jonah is a verbal prediction

One half of one verse

Jonah has just as much verbal prediction as many other OT books of the prophets

False, other books have entire chapters of prophecy

3 days and three nights and the fish is symbolic. If not predictive of Jesus in the tomb

Jonah is more similar to the stories of who in the books of the Kings, then the other Minor Prophets

Elijah and Elijah

What are the two clear themes of Jonah

1. God loves the Lost

2. God is sovereign

And the first two chapters God's saves a _

in the last two chapters God saves a _

Sinner

City

T/f God shows he's sovereign by getting his work done in spite of the failure of his children to proclaim his message

True

True or false? There is probably no OT book that has received more critical attack from scholars than Jonah

True

The scholar scoff at the authenticity of what miracle in Jonah

Being swallowed by a whale and vomited alive to prophesy

T/f Jesus Christ referred to the miracle of Jonah being swallowed and vomited alive in such a way as to indicate that he regarded it as an actual occurrence

True

Jonah is told to go to Nineveh unlike the other OT prophets who prophesied about gentile Nations

Nineveh at this time is second in size only to _

Nineveh is located on the east side of what river, which is about 550, mi from Israel (modern-day, Iraq)

After Jonah's day, what city will become the capital of Assyria

Nineveh was known for its brutal atrocities inflicted on war prisoners as well as its idolatry

Babylon

Tigris River

Instead of being the first foreign missionary, Jonah immediately flees West to _

This city is an ancient _ colony on the southwest coast of Spain

This the city was thought to be the farthest City to the west known at that time

Tarshish

Phoenician

The only working seaport in ancient Israel was in _

Jonah paid the fair to take the longest journey to the farthest shore at the hands of the greatest seamen in order to ……..

Joppa

Flee from the presence of the Lord

The Lord literally hurled what that threatened the ship

A great wind

What did did the experienced semen do while Jonas left

Prayed to their gods (of the sea)

Threw out their wealth

The pagan Captain demanded Jonah cry out to his God- he must have felt desperate to use somebody else's God- and uses words reminiscent of God's compassion to Jonah

The captain's humble submission to The sovereign decisions of deity stands and start contrast to Jonah's arrogant refusal to submit to that will

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Using a popular form of divination, God directs their attention to Jonah- In his reluctance to preach to gentiles- he bears a clear testimony of Yahweh and his vain attempt to flee his presence

He must have faced humiliation when these pagan sailors asked him why. As a prophet of Yahweh he of all people should know what to do.

At this point Jonah may have been acting on some prophetic impulse but he directs them to throw him overboard- which they at first refused

(Their refusal has to do with what commandment in the Bible)

The sixth commandment

What three things do the gentiles pray to Yahweh

1. That they might not perish

2. Thought they would not be guilty of taking an innocent life

3. That God had a right to do what he desired

What event that Jonah did not want to happen to Nineveh happened on board the ship

Repentance

Throwing Jonah overboard brought immediate calm to the Sea and a second amazing result of

Worship

Jonah's refusal to be an instrument of God to preach repentance to gentiles and Nineveh brought about repentance to these gentiles

While Jonah was being disobedient, they were praising their new God Yahweh

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The Creator used his animals to do his bidding- for they are always ready to do his bidding. Unlike Jonah

In Grace, God preserves Jonah's life in a most unusual fashion

Jonah was left in the sea creature's belly long enough to understand the miracle and _ of his God

This spectacular event only occupies _ out of the 48 verses in Jonah

The author of Jonah did not see this as the main truth

Campbell, Morgan said that men had been looking so hard at the great fish that they had failed to see the great God

Grace

3

In chapter 2:1 is the first time we see Jonah

Pray

Praise the Lord, that a Christian can never come to a place no matter how abnormal or strange that he cannot pray to his God

The whale's belly became Jonah's

Prayer closet

Critics have questions of validity because it is made up of quotes from Psalms, but that is the normal language of the believer in times of distress

Don't I recognize that even being in the fish's belly- the belly of hell- wasn't answer to prayer

He does not blame the sailors for. He acknowledges that it was truly God who cast him overboard and it was thy billows and thy waves that overwhelmed the desperate prophet

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In chapter 1, Jonah ran from God, but now he runs to God In prayer

This verse clearly shows a repentant and changed heart in Jonah

With chains of seaweed and the bars of death all around him, the prophet emits he felt himself sinking into a watery grave

Just before losing consciousness he thought on his God and cried out to him and was “ brought up” from death

Most likely, where did the whale get? Jonah?

From the bottom of the sea

True or false? There are worse places one can be than in God's will

True

Jonah includes himself with those who forsook God's mercy

He liked an invites needed God's salvation

Jonah had now reached the spiritual level of the gentile sailors

He once thought preaching God's word to the heathen was beneath him but now he knew that he must obey God and thank him for the opportunity

The message of salvation was not Jonas to give or to withhold

It was God's word, the message of the sovereign of the universe (the god of the sea, the storm, the sailors, and the sea creatures)

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The discharge of Jonah:

Think of how happy the whale must have been for. Its not easy to stomach …..

Jonah was probably vomited up on the shores of _

A backslidden preacher

Joppa

God is the God of second chances

Jonah came out a “ new” (phew) man

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God saves a city

Jonah and the Lost:

God graciously gives Jonah a second chance with a renewed commission

True or false? God mentions Jonah's first failure and rebellion?

God does not threaten the prophet but God's agenda is non-negotiable

During the second commission there is an extra emphasis on the _

False

Message

The fact of Three Days journey indicates either Jonah preached to the city along with its suburbs or that it took 3 days to deliver his message in all sectors of the city

Which one is most likely since a message was quite succinct

How many words in Hebrew to Jonah preach?

(Jonah could have preached more than what was recorded here)

It took 3 days to deliver his message in all sectors of the city

5

Often in scripture what number is used for a period of waiting and testing

40

T/f Even though no reprive is offered, the ninevites understood even Jonah's coming as an opportunity to repent

True

The nenevites are superstitious by nature and would be shocked by the blunt announcement of judgment spoken by a man whose skin must have been shriveled and bleached by the gastric juices of the fish

Jesus declared that Jonah became a sign to the ninevites

Perhaps some who had seen him spit out on the shore and proceeded him to the city

Had jonahontinental when he was first called to do so. His message might have fallen on deaf ears

Here is the irony of the book. Jonah wanted to see Niniveh doomed so he fled to tarahish and doing so. However, he set in motion at chain of circumstances which actually gave his message credibility

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There was an amazing display of repentance in Nineveh

The entire city was commanded to exhibit the usual signs of contrition

We don't know if that was genuine. Nothing is recorded in the Assyrian records of such an event, but many nations who keep meticulous histories refuse to record anything that might look embarrassing

About how many years later did Assyria destroy the northern Kingdom of Israel?

It may be that the following generation of a Assyrians refused to share their parents faith

38

True or false. God recognizeed ninivehs repentance as genuine

Just like God spared. Jonah, he now spared Nineveh

True

God delayed Ninivehs judgment for about how many years?

The people send brought the fall of Nineveh in _

In Nineveh fell to _

150

612 bc

Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar

The battle for the souls of the ninevites was not as difficult as was the battle for the mind and heart of Jonah

That's could potentially be the first time one of Jonah's predictions failed

We now see Jonah's red, hot anger and prejudice revealed

Knowing God was gracious, the prophet admits fleeing God's will rather than be a part of a Assyrian revival

In chapter 2, he praises God's mercy but deplores it in chapter 4

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In Jonah's prayer he recites a litany of the gracious attributes of Yahweh. He knew that God was gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant and loving kindness. (Exodus 34:6)

Jonah knew that God would look for any reason to relent concerning calamity

In chapter 4, Jonah is registering his total lack of appreciation for these attributes, which most sinners find eminently praiseworthy

Perhaps he even regarded these attributes as character weakness on the part of Yahweh

Or at least Jonah felt that Grace should have borders and those borders should correspond to the territory occupied by Israel

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Frustrated, Jonah knew he could not represent God anymore

Jonah and his depression declares it better to _

So he begs God to kill him

Die

Who is the most miserable person around

A person out of God's will

God patiently asks Jonah-are you right in feeling this way (doest thou well to be angry)

Jonah does not even answer God, he goes and makes a crude _ to wait out the 40 days

He is hoping for the destruction of Ninevites

In Jonah's _ indignation, this hell-fire preacher longed for fire to fall

Shelter

Self righteous

How did God rescue Jonah a 2nd time?

God continues to work patiently with the prophet, he now uses a _

He also uses the hot _ wind

This drove Jonah to despair wanting to die. He won't even talk to God now

God's gentle questioning brought almost a disrespectful tone from the prophet

Prepared a plant to shade the prophet

Worm

East

People have a tendency to become extremely perturbed when even small things which directly affect their lives, are touched by the finger of Providence

On the other hand, they can coldly and criminally in different concerning matters of infinitely greater importance when these matters do not impinge upon their life

The gentle question ignited Jonah's simmering anger like _ poured on an open flame

Jonah shot back. I have a good reason to be angry even to _

He had lost all patients with God

Those who are victims of self-pity are not hesitant to defend their negative attitudes even to deity

The important thing here however, is that God did not give up on Jonah even when he was acting like a royal jerk

gasoline

death

God's curriculum for Jonah was to learn this- _ are more precious than _

Value how could Jonah value one plant? He had nothing to do with over _ souls that sovereign God declares he cares for

People, plants

120,000

The phrase “ that cannot discern between the right hand and their left hand” could mean what two things

1. It may refer to either children

2. Or that the Ninevites were totally ignorant of true spiritual things *

If the phrase that cannot discern between the right hand and their left hand refers to children- this would make the population of Nineveh around 600,000

Some see gods last words as ironic as if to say “ Jonah, even if you don't care about the thousands of souls, think of the waste of perfectly good _”

livestock

God's words to the prophet indicate that Jonah had no right to be angry

Donald Baker paraphrases God's response this way “ analyze his anger of yours. Jonah. It represents your concern over your beloved plant, but what did it really mean to you? Your attachment to it couldn't be very deep for it was here for one day and gone the next. Your concern was dictated by self-interest not by genuine love. You never had the devotion of a gardener

If you feel as bad as you do, what would you expect a gardener to feel like who tended a plant and watched it grow only to see it weather and die

This is how I feel about Nineveh only. Much more so. All these people all those animals I made them. I have cherished them all these years

Nine of us has cost me no end of effort and it means the world to me. Your pain is nothing compared to mine when I contemplate their destruction

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Epilogue:

What happened to Jonah? There is no actual record. Perhaps all of this was written by Jonah when he finally understood God's teaching

It could be that the prophet intended this account that put him in such a bad light to be a sort of confession to his own people in Israel who had become a nation of Jonah's

This is the case that Jonah himself repeated of his prejudice and rebellion and again declared God's sovereignty and Grace

What was Jonah's final conclusion he came to?

Salvation is of the Lord