Jonah Chapter 4 Discussion Page 2

I c myself as a Jonah in my current situation .. I'm pray ing God vomit me out of the belly of hell !

A very good lesson to learn, about judging others, obeying God and forgiveness, and walking in love. Gods ways is nothing like ours. His thoughts our far beyond what we can think or imagine. Obedience is far better than sacrifice.

To Anne on Jonah ch. 4; Anne, that was beautiful, and so well said, and easy to read - very good typing; you must proof read.....?
I was raised a newspaper editors dau., and I still forget to proof read.

The book of Jonah teaches us about the importance of obedience, repentance, forgiveness and love. Jonah was disobedient and repented. God forgave him. He took the message to Nineveh. Nineveh repented and God forgave them. God's love and mercy for the people of Nineveh spared them from disaster. We should also have compassion for those who are not yet saved and be willing to go where God sends us.

Jonah was disappointed, angry with God for having Mercy on them: The greatest problem in the Book of Jonah is neither the fish, nor the repentance of Nineveh, but the repentance of Jonah. God has more difficulty with Jonah than with any other feature of the book. They don t deserve Mercy: Jonah says This is why I did not want to go the first time. I knew you would show Mercy, that you are a gracious God, and Merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness Jonah new that if he preached Judgment to Nineveh, that they would repent, that the Lord would save them.

Everything Jonah had God prepared for him. God prepared the fish. God prepared the people. God prepared the gourd. God prepared the east wind. Jonah was selfish and unforgiving. Jonah gives us a good exammple of how we should not act as christians. Many times God forgives us and show us mercy but often we don't want to forgive or show mercy to others. Bishop Brandon Porter preached a message entitled "How can we forget"? So true. How can we forget what God has done for us. God has continued to love us and forgive us so we ought to do the same. Let's not be like Jonah by being angry, when God forgives others. Hasn't God forgiven you? Yes.

God is sovereign and deserves our services, no one has the right to question his actions or commands. All we need to do is to obey whenever He calls us to do anything for Him, for that is the reason he created us.

I disagree and agree with the commentary Jonah had a uneasy spirit He made the plant to comfort him God prepared and unpaired his situation he love the comfort like we all do but when thing happen and take us out of r comfort zone we get upset or complain because thing not going r way small worm can me anything in life love one money ect.but Jonah had a headache from the sun that gave him affliction or ect. God was trying to show Jonah what was important people weather then riches soul is better then thing and reaching out to people that are lost and a died world

When God gives instructions we must follow because he chooses who he wants go do his work. Look back on Moses leading the Israelites outvof the clutches of pharoah. He could not do it unless God gave the command, so ad children of God we must be orepared to listen and respond to the voice of God and not do our own thing. He is a jelous God. Jonah disobeyed God and paid the penalty. Let us all adhere to his voice because it makes a difference. We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. I pray that we all listen to make our election sure. As children of God we cannot sit back and relax. We need to spread his words far and wide. His coming is near, the writing is on the wall. Let us put on the whole armour of God and prepare for the battle. Satan is on the loose because he knows his days are numbered. Thanks be to God for his promise to redeem his people. The rapture is at hand, are you ready?

Verse 8, if parabolic, "the sun beat down upon the head of Jonah ", could mean the sun righteousness and truth, beat down the value of righteousness and truth was discussed, and negotiated as to what was right and what was wrong. " upon the head of Jonah upon the definition of Peace terms as Jonah means Dove and a dove is a symbol of Peace.

Jonah 4 vs 11 means this. God 's Prophets were often selfish and self seeking. I 'm amazed at how God used a man who hated the Ninevehites, to warn them of destruction. in fact that i why Jonah headed for Tarshish. He knew God 's compassion was greater in this case than his wrath. We must remember this if God supplies a gourd to comfort us, it may also contain a worm of agitation. Imagine being upset because God Almighty soared 120,000 souls, plus cattle. Praise God the King of Nineveh humbled himself and was not like Pharaoh in Egypt. This is why in America we need to pick our leaders wisely. Arrogant leaders often bring calamity on their people. Aren 't you glad that God Almighty is full of compassion? Are we better than he Ninehvites? Thank you Lord Jesus for sparing me!

This was very helpful tips that I can use in everyday life and that is to listen and to do as I was told

Jonah still had un-forgiveness in his heart that 's why he didn 't want to go to Nineveh. He knew Elohim was merciful, gracious, kind and would change His mind concerning Nineveh if they repented! Jonah 4:2 Jonah was still had an attitude because God forgave them! He forgot God forgave him and the Northern Kingdom!

we are all jonah!

Poor little ole me the whole world is crashing down before me and all I have is a fish story God always has his hand out I just got to seek it and praise him for I am the righteousness in Christ who strengthen me

The book of Jonah is a very interesting book, and we have alot to learn from it, especially in this end times. Recently there was serious revelation from God thru some of His end time prophets, that serious trouble is coming to earth within days, that will turn many people to God. This prophecy was everywhere and some wonderful end time prophets of God confirmed it. People were repenting and getting ready for what was revealed, but nothing happen. There was a lot of criticism agaist the prophets who revealed this because it didnot happen. Many called them false prophets.Personally am very close to one of the prophets, she is a great servant of God. While the criticism was going on God directed me to the book of Jonah. I had little understanding about the book of Jonah, infact i never knew why Jonah was running away from God until i went to read it. Jonah had an intimate relationship with God. He had been hearing from the LORD and passing messages to people. He has come to know from his exsperience with God that God is so merciful. God has given him warning messages in the past and repented. This is like an embarrasement to Jonah, after telling the people that God is about to destroy this city nothing happen, because God had repented. This was the reason Jonah refused to go to Niniveh when the message came to Him. I used to think that God told Jonah to go and warn Niniveh to repent, but God has opened my eyes beyound that. Jonah was told to go and tell Niniveh that in Fourty days time God will bring judgment upon the city because of their sins. It was the people that decided on their own to repent, and God forgave them. Jonah became angry because his prophecy did not happen. Read how the people reacted to Jonah's message in chapter 3. And in chapter 4 you will see how Jonah was talking to the LORD that this is the reason he did not want to come to Niniveh.

Jonah did not understand the mercy of God Yet we too cannot understand the ways of God for as high as the heavens are above the earth so are the ways of God above ours We will have to wait until we get to heaven to find out the answer

Why did Jonah get angry with God for changing His mind (God) from destroying Nineveh?
Can anyone help me?

I meant Thank you Lord for you mercy

Jonah and I have alot in common. Thank you Lord for your mercury

Believe it or not,we all are like Jonah.Think for a minute,there is a three step movement here.(1) Jonah ran from the Lord,like most of us.(2) Then when God spared his life, he ran for the Lord.(3) When Jonah seen how merciful God was he did not mind running for the Lord.

Best of all Jonah builds himself a comfortable place to view the destruction from. God makes one finial attempt to teach Jonah about His love and gives him a gourd vine to increase his comfort and predictably Jonah loves it because it makes him more comfortable. God takes it away and Jonah says in effect if you are going to make me uncomfortable just kill me. The people of Nineveh in their abysmal ignorance understood God better than Jonah because when they heard God was angry enough to kill them they also worked out the unspoken corollary: God loves you enough he is giving you time to repent.

Best of all Jonah builds himself a comfortable place to view the destruction from. God makes one finial attempt to teach Jonah about His love and gives him a gourd vine to increase his comfort and predictably Jonah loves it because it makes him more comfortable. God takes it away and Jonah says in effect if you are going to make me uncomfortable just kill me. The people of Nineveh in their abysmal ignorance understood God better than Jonah because when they heard God was angry enough to kill them they also worked out the unspoken corollary: God loves you enough he is giving you time to repent.

Jonah followed the hero's journey... reluctant to take on the mission, meeting sailors intent on advancing his mission for the survival of all. But having accomplished the mission and being relieved of discomfort he is angered by the outcome even though the ultimate lesson seems to be that repentance secures salvation.

Jonah was angry that God forgave the people of Nineveh because it rendered him as a false prophet. ( Deuteronomy 18:22)

Jonah has reveal his self because the people in nenivi are very bad,but god said a thousands of peoples i kill them but they are obey to me and they changed and they are pasting with in 3 days
and God see them have changes so God they pity them and they will not continue to destroy them.
So God said to Jonah you are alone and that time God give him signed to Jonah now is understand what God preserve them.

You would i do not know why we try to talk to the Lord like He do not know what is going on with us, i feel that the Lord knew that Jonah was going to do this even before he did it.Thank you God that you are meriful upon us, because we think that we should do our own thing, instead of listening to you.

Poor Jonah was insane in his mind. What kind of deceitful trying to hide himself from the eyes of the almighty God. this irony was hidden from the sight of Jonah. He knew well Lord that he was omnipresent therefore, when we Christian we blind our mind, we will never think the power of God and how much God loves us. We will fall short of glory always because we didn't touch light which shalt lead us not into temptation.

Jonah is like many Christians. We either pray for or desire the salvation of the most wicked people in the world. Only God is pure love and wants all to go to heaven. How many Christians prayed for the salvation of Hitler?

Jonah was called, Jonah listened, Jonah disobeyed, Jonah chose opposition, Jonah moved in opposite direction, Jonah confessed, Jonah put those that care for him before him, Jonah was moved in the right direction by the Hand Of God, Jonah was delivered, Jonah put the people that he cared not for before himself, Jonah went to a safe place to witness the response, Jonah was comforted, Jonah was angry because the out come was not what he wanted after all that suffering, Jonah was enlighten on an over whelming problem that he had thst hindered his walk with the LORD>