Jonah

Do you Believe in God – or not?

Do you believe in God, do you trust Him to keep His word and to give you direction for others’ good?  Jonah was called by God to go to a terrible enemy, Nineveh, Assyria.  They were cruel and did malicious things to people.  Jonah hated his enemies.  He did not go to Nineveh, he boarded […]

The Reluctant Prophet

Jonah is known as the prophet swallowed by a great fish, and so he was. But God’s intention for Jonah was not thwarted by Jonah running away from what God wanted him to do.   What did God want him to do?  Why, go to the Israelite’s enemy in Nineveh and preach repentance.  Did Jonah […]

“… greater than… ”

Jesus talked to a growing crowd about the “sign” of Messiah.  The “sign” of Jonah and the “sign” of the Son of Man.  Proof that Jesus was and is the Messiah.  Luke 11:29-30 Jesus used two illustrations from Israel’s history to point to the judgment and condemnation against “this generation’s” unbelief in Jesus as Messiah.  […]

Proof – Attesting miracles

Jesus said to the increasing crowds who listened to Him, “This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks a sign, and yet no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.”  Luke 11:29-30 […]