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Jonah, The Runaway Prophet

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Author/Source: Paul Dallgas-Frey

Topic: Jonah

And then at last, Jonah understood that God truly is slow to anger, and always willing to forgive us when we turn to Him.

"I don't want to!" Would you ever say that to God?

Jonah did.

God said to Jonah, “Go to Ninevah!”

And Jonah said, “I don’t want to!”

Well, he didn’t exactly SAY that to God - but that's what he was thinking.

Back in Jonah’s day - this was a LONG time ago, about 800 years before Jesus was born - the greatest city in the world was Ninevah. Everyone had heard of Ninevah. And everyone knew it was an evil place.

So, God had a job for Jonah.

“Jonah,“ God called, “Get up! Go to Ninevah!“

“Tell the people there that I know all about the terrible things they are doing. They think no one can see the evil things they do. But I see!”

But Ninevah was a big, scary place, and Jonah didn’t want to go!

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