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(May 5, 2020) Jonah 3:8a “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth.” One thing about Jonah’s story is extremely unusual, the fish notwithstanding: Jonah preaches on his first day (3:4), and it [...]

(May 4, 2020) Jonah 1:2; 3:2 “Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh and preach…” Seven Hebrew words are repeated twice verbatim; they are translated: “Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh [...]

(May 1, 2020) Jonah 1:17 “And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” – There is one [...]

(April 30, 2020) Jonah 2:10 “And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.” We often have the tendency to sanitize the scriptures, or to take and lift out the [...]

(April 29, 2020) Jonah 2:2 “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and You listened to my cry.” Do [...]

(April 28, 2020)  See Jonah 2 “…from the depths of Sheol (the grave) I called for help…”– The Hebrew mindset of the creation narrative in Genesis goes something like this: Imagine everything is dark [...]

(April 27, 2020) See Jonah 1 “The captain went to him and said, ‘How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god!’” Personally, I typically do not enjoy re-reading books or watching [...]

(April 24, 2020) See Jonah 1:12-13 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” [Jonah] replied... Instead, the men did their best to row back to land.” – The supersized Book of Jonah [...]

(April 23, 2020) See Jonah 1:1 “Go to the great city of Nineveh...” – Here is a general rule of thumb when reading the scriptures: note which word(s) are repeated. For example, consider Jonah 1. [...]

(April 22, 2020) Jonah 1:1-2 “The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before [...]