7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
No. Jonah did not go to hell. Scripture says he'll is empty. All people who die (wherever that happened);
their grave is where the body or remains are.
They are as the Bible says: SLEEPING.
Jonah was not happy to be called to deliver a message from God. Disgruntled, he was taken on a cruise in the belly of a whale; so he could rethink his objections
The whale vomits him in the beach. He's bleached white from the gastric liquids of the whale. He has seaweed all over & some other stuff :/
A Ninevite fisherman sees this horror and Jonah says REPENT. He continues to Nineveh and delivers Gods message. They repented from top to bottom: people, donkeys, cats, dogs. They all got saved.
Jonah goes back out to the beach and proceeds to grumble to himself under a shrub. While he's asleep, God in his kindness makes leaves grow on the shrub to shade Noah.
It makes me think of the Book of Jeremiah (the weeping prophet), when he spoke of the heart of God to those stubborn non-repentant Israelites. It makes me cry.
I love stories even better where you can see the merciful heart of God.
I don't see anything that would have me to believe that Jonah went to Hell. Here's what I get out of that passage and how it might relate to us today. What I see is that God has a will and a purpose for everything He does. He told Jonah to go to Nineveh. You see, God had a purpose for Jonah. But what did Jonah do? He said, (and I am paraphrasing here), "I'm not going to Nineveh, I'm going the opposite direction. It was God's will that Jonah go to Nineveh and since it was God's will and Jonah went against it, Jonah ended up being spit out of the mouth of a great fish. Guess where Jonah ended up? Right there on the shore of Nineveh.
You see, it's the same for us today. Whatever God's will is for us, whatever God wants us to do, He will make it happen one way or another. We cannot fight against God's will and expect to win that battle!
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
No. Jonah did not go to hell. Scripture says he'll is empty. All people who die (wherever that happened);
their grave is where the body or remains are.
They are as the Bible says: SLEEPING.
Jonah was not happy to be called to deliver a message from God. Disgruntled, he was taken on a cruise in the belly of a whale; so he could rethink his objections
The whale vomits him in the beach. He's bleached white from the gastric liquids of the whale. He has seaweed all over & some other stuff :/
A Ninevite fisherman sees this horror and Jonah says REPENT. He continues to Nineveh and delivers Gods message. They repented from top to bottom: people, donkeys, cats, dogs. They all got saved.
Jonah goes back out to the beach and proceeds to grumble to himself under a shrub. While he's asleep, God in his kindness makes leaves grow on the shrub to shade Noah.
It makes me think of the Book of Jeremiah (the weeping prophet), when he spoke of the heart of God to those stubborn non-repentant Israelites. It makes me cry.
I love stories even better where you can see the merciful heart of God.
I don't see anything that would have me to believe that Jonah went to Hell. Here's what I get out of that passage and how it might relate to us today. What I see is that God has a will and a purpose for everything He does. He told Jonah to go to Nineveh. You see, God had a purpose for Jonah. But what did Jonah do? He said, (and I am paraphrasing here), "I'm not going to Nineveh, I'm going the opposite direction. It was God's will that Jonah go to Nineveh and since it was God's will and Jonah went against it, Jonah ended up being spit out of the mouth of a great fish. Guess where Jonah ended up? Right there on the shore of Nineveh.
You see, it's the same for us today. Whatever God's will is for us, whatever God wants us to do, He will make it happen one way or another. We cannot fight against God's will and expect to win that battle!
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