An Unlikely Response – Jonah 3:1-10 – Message #3

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Jonah gets a second chance.  God gives him the same commands as before, and this time Jonah obeys.  He goes to Nineveh (a city that is important to God) and pronounces imminent judgement.  The people of the city begin to repent.  The king repents and orders his people and their animals to fast and dress in sackcloth.  They are to call out to God and turn away from their wickedness and their violence.  He is thinking, “Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”  At this point the narrator tells his audience something that the Ninevites and Jonah don’t even know yet, that God has seen their repentance, has compassion for the city, and has decided not to destroy it.  But as far as the people and the prophet know,  they will just have to wait and see…