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Jonah’s Journey

Follow Jonah's struggle with God as he refuses a hard mission but eventually repents to deliver a warning to the city of Nineveh. Explore Assyria's image in Jewish eyes and the divine intervention in Jonah's journey. Reflect on themes of repentance, obedience, and prejudice in this timeless tale. Are you ready to change your ways like Jonah did?

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Jonah’s Journey

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  1. Jonah’s Journey Struggling with God

  2. Refusing a hard mission • Repentanceto Ninive!

  3. Assyria’s image in Jewish eyes

  4. Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser "The great gods who rule over over the heavens and the earth, the guardians of the kingdom of TiglathPileser, the Prince inspiring your hearts with joy; the proud Chief whom in the strength of your hearts ye have made firm, and confided the supreme crown, ...

  5. Jonah sails west

  6. Divine intervention

  7. It’s my fault (1:12) "Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great storm has come upon you."

  8. Sailors reluctantly agree

  9. 3-days of prayer

  10. Back on land

  11. Missioned again

  12. Impossible task?

  13. Warning • In 40 days,Ninive willbe utterlydestroyed

  14. Total response

  15. Jonah still hopes

  16. His focus has not changed

  17. No real change

  18. God’s question • "You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. • And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left?

  19. Questioning myself • Have I my own prejudices? • Is God pointing another way? • Am I ready to change?

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