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Jonah
“
Do you want to, um, sit? Up here?”
The open bit of mattress next to him. Jonah smiling, now looking a little shy. His shyness makes her shy. “Okay,” she says.
Jonah scoots over, wincing as he moves his right leg. When he’s settled, resting back against his pillows, Hallelujah takes hold of the bedrail and climbs up to sit next to him. Her legs are surprisingly shaky, and she’s happy to stretch them out next to Jonah’s.
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When the Captain finds the sleeping prophet he
says, "Arise, call...!" ( Hebrew qum lek, verse 6), the
same words God used when calling Jonah to arise, go,
and call Nineveh to repentance. But as Jonah rubs his
eyes there is a Gentile mariner with God's very words
in his mouth. What is this? God sent his prophet to
point the pagans toward himself. Yet now it is the
pagans pointing the prophet toward God.
...more
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― The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
― The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
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