Jonah — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Jonah is not a children's story about a big fish. If you leave it in the flannelgraph world of Sunday School, you will miss the entire point. This is a book about the absolute, untamable, and inescapable sovereignty of God. Our culture loves stories of redemption, but only on its own terms. It wants a grace that is cheap, a forgiveness that is therapeutic, and a second chance that requires no actual repentance. It is a soft, effeminate gospel that makes no demands and has no teeth. And we must see that the entire book has been a divine setup. God has not been primarily interested in the salvation of Nineveh, though He accomplished that with what appears to be minimal effort. No, the central project of this book, the great fish, the storm, the plant, the worm, and the wind, has been the education, the dismantling, and the reconstruction of one man: Jonah, son of Amittai.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: