BIG FISH (Heroes of the Bible Part 2 - Jonah)
Unbelievable but true: This is the account of the adventures of the prophet Jonah, which is particularly through his stay in the interior of a fish known.
Those were the days ...
ACROSS THE SEA
The story begins with God from the wickedness of the inhabitants of Nineveh, an Assyrian city, learns. Since there are so many cities with bad people, of course, God has neither the time nor the money to anywhere aufzukreuzen personally - and so he sent Jonah there.
"1 Now the word of Lord came to Jonah the son Amitthais, saying
2 Get up and go into the great city of Nineveh and preach against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. "
(Jonah 1:1-2)
But Jonah does not want to go to Nineveh and runs away before God, He takes the next boat to Tarshish -.. In today's southern Spain, and thus in the opposite direction
Since God is of course angry at the objectors command and sends a storm. If there is not Jonah, where the Lord says it, he should not go anywhere. No more.
"3 But Jonah up and fled from the Lord, and Tarshish and went down to Joppa. And he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went in that he go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
4 But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there arose a great storm at sea, that you thought would break the ship. "
(Jonah 1:3-4) advised
During the ship's passengers to panic and pray to each its appropriate for him to God, Jonah gets from all the excitement with nothing. It is namely calmly in his bunk and's asleep.
"5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried, every man to his God , and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah was gone down into the ship , lay asleep. "
(Jonah 1:5)
The ship's Master has awakened and outraged about it. And so it goes so well really could not help in such an emergency situation must eventually everyone in which he prays to his God of the respective trust. Thus, the probability that a help of the gods, after all the higher.
"6 came to him the ship, and said unto him, What do you sleep? Arise, call upon thy God! if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. "
(Jonah 1:6)
The people on the ship are rational thinking people and not just arbitrarily give anyone the blame for their predicament. Instead, without they choose who is to blame
"7 And one said to the others. Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose sake we go there so bad. And when they cast lots upon Jonah.
(Jonah 1:7)
Since the lot fell on Jonah confesses he, that he is on the run from the Lord. He proposed to let him throw from the ship. That would certainly appease God's wrath.
"10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this because they knew that he fled from the Lord, for he had told them
?. 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do with you that we will shut the sea because the sea was tempestuous
12 He said to them?. Take me and throw me is the sea, the sea and it shall still are. For I know that such a large storm comes over you because of me. "
(Jonah 1:10-12)
The proposal seems reasonable to people. You grab him and throw Jonah overboard.
fact sets the storm ...
"15 And they took Jonah and threw him into the sea. the sea ceased from her raging"
(Jonah 1:15)
that the storm out has, after Jonah was thrown into the sea proves, of course without any doubt that everything was just as Jonah had said it. Therefore, all people convert spontaneously to the ship sacrifice for Judaism and the Lord - for you, that he has accepted the human sacrifice and die mercifully not so the sailors had not involved.
"16 And the men feared the Lord very much and sacrifice unto the LORD and made vows."
(Jonah 1:16)
FISH PRAYER
Jonah escapes from almost certain death in that God sends a great fish. This swallow Jonah, who then spent the next three days in the cozy, warm stomach of the animal.
"1 But the Lord prepared a great fish, to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. "
(Jonah 2:1)
In the belly of the fish Jonah prayed to God. The range of leisure facilities there containing a bit poor.
" 2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, in the belly of the fish. "
(Jonah 2:2)
When Jonah promises his God, offer him lavish sacrifice, the Lord lets him free again.
He speaks a word of power with the fish that Jonah then again auskotzt.
And this with so much pressure behind it that Jonah lands on the mainland.
"10 But I will sacrifice to you with thanks, I will pay my vows;. Because the Lord is using
11 And the Lord said to the fish, and the vomited out Jonah on shore. "
(Jonah 2:10-11)
NOTHING IS IRREVERSIBLE
Jonah has learned what happens when you do not do what the Lord orders. Therefore, he does now is what God says to him, and travels to Nineveh.
"1 and it was the word of the Lord to Jonah a second time and said
2 Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh and preach it the preaching that I bid thee!
3 As Jonah was, and went unto Nineveh, as the LORD had said. Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. "
(Jonah 3:1-3)
arrived in Nineveh, Jonah preaches, as required by God to the Lord the entire city in forty days from the map will pay off.
"4 And Jonah began to go in a day's journey in the city, he preached, saying, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. "
(Jonah 3:4)
The evil people realize that they are terrible sinners. What exactly do they have employed, however, is not betrayed.
Even assigns the king, when he gets wind of the affair, a city-wide buses. Maybe it thinks of God were yet a different way.
"5 Since people believed to Nineveh to God and had proclaimed a fast one should, and put on sackcloth, both large and small.
6 And since the front of the King came to Nineveh, he rose from his throne and took off his robe, and covered with sackcloth, and sat in ashes
7 and made a proclamation and say to Nineveh according to the commandment of the king and his nobles So, Let neither man nor beast, neither sheep, ox, nor take food, and one should not feed them to drink water they can;
8 and bags to wrap around him, both people and livestock, and cry mightily to God, and turn every one from his evil way and from the violence of his hands.
9 Who knows? It would God repent again and turn away from his fierce anger, that we do not spoil "
(Jonah 3:5-9)
Indeed. When God sees the atonement of Niniveter, it is stirred and he feels sorry for what he wanted to do to them.
"10 But God saw their works that they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil that he had spoken to them to do and did it not. "
(Jonah 3:10)
humble Despite the criticism, which in this Framework in God is sometimes you have to admit one to him: If he builds crap, he is not always unreasonable.
When, in the Book of Exodus, for example, in a fit of rage will kill all his chosen people (except Moses), he regretted the plan after Moses to reassure him.
"9 And the Lord said to Moses. I see that it is a stiff-necked people
10 And now let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot over them and destroy them; so will I make thee a great nation
[...]
14. So the LORD repented of the evil that he threatened his people to do. "
(Exodus 32:9-10,14)
Unfortunately, it is for people but not always an advantage when God made a mistake admit it. He regretted the Book of Genesis, the decision to have ever made man and is very sorry about this mistake.
"5 saw But the Lord that the man was evil great in the earth and every intent of their hearts was only evil continually,
6 because he repented that he had made man on the Earth, and it grieved him in his heart, "
(Genesis 6:5-6)
But God is not only as sovereign, to admit that people do not behave morally, as he wished . had - he corrected his mistake promptly and let them drown miserably in the Sintfut
"7 and he said, I want the people I've done, wipe from the earth, from people up to the cattle and up to the creeping things, and the birds of the sky; for I regret that I have made them. "
(Genesis 6:7)
LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE
In this case, but is it good for the people that God blows off his plan. At least for the inhabitants of the city of Nineveh. Jonah, however, is stinking mad at God.
Finally, he stands there like a complete idiot, but he has announced the destruction of the city, which now takes place not.
"1 The Jonah grieved very much, and he was angry"
(Jonah 4:1)
Jonah says the LORD, that he knew in advance that make God a bicycle kick and the city is not destroyed. So he had run well ahead of him.
he had just told him earlier: yes God can read your mind!
"2 and prayed to the Lord and said, O Lord, that's what I said because I was in my country, so I also wanted to forestall, to flee unto Tarshish: for I know that you are gracious and merciful, slow to anger and are of great quality and lets you repent of the evil. "
(Jonah 4:2)
Poor Jonah is so furious that he asked the Lord to kill him.
"3 take yet now, O Lord, my soul me, for I would rather be dead than to live. "
(Jonah 4:3)
But God lets him do not die this time. This Jonah moves to the suburbs, builds a hut there. He watches the city to see if God might not his opinion . a second time changes
"4 But the Lord said, you know that you approve of my angry?
5 And Jonah went out of the city and sat down east side of the city and there made him a booth, of which he sat in the shade, until he saw what happened to the city would. "
(Jonah 4:4-5) Jonah had
who just expressed the wish to die is pretty easy to cheer again. God, it creates an oil plant, the improved his mood again.
"6 gave the Lord God but a gourd that grew over Jonah, that he would shadow over his head, and deliver him from his evil; and Jonah was very glad of the gourd. "
(Jonah 4:6)
God sends the night, however, a worm, so the gourd has dried up the next day.
Jonah wants to die.
"gave seven But God prepared a worm in the morning, as dawn broke, it smote the gourd that it withered
8 But. the sun was up, gave God a dry east wind, and the sun Jonah stood on his head that he matt was because he wanted himself to die, and said I would rather be dead live as "
(Jonah.. 4:7-8)
God granted Jonah in this way some sort of lesson. Unfortunately I have not the slightest idea what is the ...
"9 God said to Jonah, you, or think that you are angry for the gourd cheap and he said:. Cheap I be angry even unto death
10 And the Lord said: You are concerned about the castor bean, because you have not worked, it did not grow, which in a night and perished in a night;
11 and I should not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which more than a hundred and twenty thousand are people who do not know difference between what is right or left, and also many animals? "
(Jonah 4:9-11)
The Lord does indeed just as it would have been Jonas plan to wipe out the city. It is indeed, the only complained about the fact that God made him forced the use of force has to preach the destruction of the city, because he knew that God is anyway pervades
Jonah receives no opportunity to respond to God's question -. because here are the adventures of the prophet Jonah already too end.
Some Christians in the U.S. have announced the way for the 05/21/2011 end of the world. The fact that the world comes to this very day, is precise, according to its website "100% and incontrovertible "foretold in the Bible.
But the beautiful story of Jonah, we know now that as the last word has not yet spoken. silky So in the near future particularly good and it will do God perhaps sorry that he wanted to kill us ...
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