The Man
When Jonah was asked, "from what people are you?"
What is a Hebrew?
The one place Jonah did not want to go.
What is Nineveh?
This great city was Northeast of Israel.
Where is Nineveh?
How many times did God's message come to Jonah?
What is "running from God?"
Jonah's primary emotion identified in chapter 4.
What is anger?
The great divide between Israelites and Jews with the rest of the world.
Who are Gentiles?
What is Tarshish?
This is what Jonah preached to the people.
What is "In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed?"
Nineveh represented this group of people.
Who are the most unlikely converts?
Jonah's father.
Who was Amittai?
The reason Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh.
What is God's compassion/mercy?
The place of the dead which Jonah felt he had gone.
Jonah's response to the fisherman regarding the LORD's (YHWH) identity.
Who is the Creator of the sea and land?
We often underestimate the depth of this attribute of God.
What is God's compassion/mercy?
What is the 8th Century?
The one outcome Jonah was afraid of in Nineveh.
What is repentance?
Jonah's bon-less bon voyage departure point.
What is Joppa?
The shelter God gave and then took away.
What is the vine?
Jonah prayed to God from the belly of the fish after experiencing the consequences of his disobedience.
Who was Jeroboam II?
The second question God asked Jonah.
What is "Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?"
Joppa-New Testament thematic connection
Where did Peter receive his vision of the sheet and unclean animals?
The unlikely wearers of sackloth.
Who were the beasts/cattle of Nineveh?
Ultimately God not only wants our obedience but to share in His love for the lost.