The People’s Bible: Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
Overview
Obadiah announced God’s judgment upon Edom, an enemy of Judah, but promised deliverance to God’s faithful people. God wants all people to be saved, so he sent Jonah to preach repentance to Nineveh, the capital of a foreign nation. Micah announced God’s punishment upon sin and the sure salvation to come through the Messiah.
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- Historical background
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Top Highlights
“In each case he had compassion on the people and withheld his judgment—at Nineveh because of their repentance and at Sinai because of Moses’ intercession. In neither case did he change his mind. He did, however, change his course of action in keeping with his compassion and the conditional nature of his threats. He did not change his threatened judgment upon Nineveh. But when the city repented, his purpose was fulfilled and he withheld his punishment.” (Page 78)
“What irony! A heathen ship’s captain must call upon a prophet of God to wake up and pray when Jonah should have been the first one to be alert to prayer. He was acting more like a heathen than the captain and his sailors!” (Page 43)
“Sometimes the Lord has to bring his loved ones to the lowest depths of despair before he can raise them to the heights of hope and joy. Such was the case with drowning Jonah.” (Page 58)
“‘Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites.’ A sign of what? In the parallel passage in Matthew 12:38–41, the Lord speaks of ‘the sign of the prophet Jonah’ (verse 39) as Jonah’s three-day survival in the belly of the great fish and connects it with his own resurrection from the dead. Somehow, perhaps by a report preceding his arrival in their city, the Ninevites had learned about Jonah’s miraculous experience of being brought out of the fish alive. Jonah’s ‘death and resurrection’ was therefore a sign to the Ninevites that God had authorized his preaching. For them, he was living proof of the sure judgment and mercy of God, the heart of Jonah’s message.” (Page 71)
- Title: The People’s Bible: Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
- Author: Cyril W. Spaude
- Publisher: Northwestern Publishing House
- Publication Date: 1987
- Pages: 170