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Jonah
Topic Started: Sep 10 2012, 04:41 PM (268 Views)
Shim
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I read the book of Jonah last night before bed. As I laid there, and laid there, and laid there (I've been having problems sleeping for the last week). The vine east wind and worm brought about some questions. Exactly what was the lesson at the end of Jonah? What did God use the worm for in His teaching?
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I don't think we need to find a meaning in every incidental detail - the plant was a visual parable to Jonah and the worm was simply the means that God used to destroy the plant. As for the lesson, well i think God explains it in ch 4:9-11

Jonah 4:9 Then God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry, even to death!" 10 But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. 11 "And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left-- and much livestock?"

If jonah had a right to want to see the plant live, didn't God have even more right to want to see the people of Nineveh go on living too :D
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Sep 11 2012, 05:37 AM
I don't think we need to find a meaning in every incidental detail - the plant was a visual parable to Jonah and the worm was simply the means that God used to destroy the plant. As for the lesson, well i think God explains it in ch 4:9-11

Jonah 4:9 Then God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry, even to death!" 10 But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. 11 "And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left-- and much livestock?"

If jonah had a right to want to see the plant live, didn't God have even more right to want to see the people of Nineveh go on living too :D
Hello brother RB, just wanted to say that the new icon is excellent.

Where did you find it?

God bless.
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