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THE PROPHECY THAT DOESN’T COME TRUE

August 10, 2021Uncategorized120000 citizens, 40 day's, belly, big fish, boat, Christ, doom, fish, forty days, God, God's People, great fish, great strom, Jesus Christ, jonah, Jonah 3:4, Jonah hides, kill nineveh's, loogie, Matthew, message, new testament, oberboard, obeys, Old Testament, opposite, prophecy, prophet, rebellion, rock, sails, storm, windabarkley8

There’s only one sentence of prophecy in this book. And it turns out wrong: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!” (Jonah 3:4).

Never happened.

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (JONAH “RUNNING FROM GOD”)

May 31, 2021Uncategorized3 days, 3 nights, 40 day's, 40 nights, Assyria, big fish, boat, cast lots, cease, common practice, creature, crewman, crewmen, dire, disaster, dressed, enemy, fish, giant fish, God the Father, God the Holy Ghost, God the Son, God's wrath, great big fish, great fish, inkling, Israel, jonah, Lord, lots, Men of the Bible, new testament, nineveh, Old Testament, open sea, overboard, preach, prophetic, running, sackcloth, sailor, sailors, storm, Tarshish, theologians, theological, theology, threatened, vessel, wale, warning, weather, woman of the bible, wrathabarkley8

Jonah stands alone among the prophets of the Old Testament. Certainly he was the only one (that we know of) to spend three days in the digestive tract of a fish. In the bigger picture, though, he was the only one (that we know of) to flatly refuse an assignment from God.

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FISHING, EGYPTIAN STYLE

January 1, 2020Churchancient, ancient diet, angle, bait, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible times, big boats, big fish, boats, bronze, Christian, christian studies, christianity, christians, Church, churches, diet, Egypt, egyptians, fish, fisherman, fishing, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hooks, manners and customs, monumetns, mourn, net, nets, new testament, Nile, Nile River, NIV, Old Testament, Religion, religion studies, religion study, religions, river, shore, small boats, study, the church, theologians, theology, water, watersabarkley8

19a3846f762e0d7cd0f52534eb973404 This verse is part of Isaiah’s prophecy of doom against Egypt. God’s punishment would be so devastating that it would spoil the Egyptian fishing industry. Fish taken from the Nile River and it’s tributaries were a staple of this ancient nation’s diet. Continue reading FISHING, EGYPTIAN STYLE →

HOW CAN A PERSON SURVIVE SEVENTY-TWO HOURS INSIDE A FISH?

December 26, 2019Uncategorized72 hours, asleep, Bible, bible studies, bible study, bible times, biblical, big fish, boat, Christ, chronological, criminal, dead, death, fish, God, great fish, human, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, love, loves, Matthew, minor prophet, miracles, new testament, Old Testament, parable, sail, shallow, shallows, shark, shelter, ship, sleep, sleeping, succumb, survive, theologians, theology, whaleabarkley8

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The sheer unlikelihood of this event has caused many to interpret Jonah’s book as allegory or parable, not history as such. Indeed, no other account exists of a human being surviving such an event. Did it really happen to Jonah, and if so, how did he survive? Continue reading HOW CAN A PERSON SURVIVE SEVENTY-TWO HOURS INSIDE A FISH? →

BIBLE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS (JONAH IN THE GREAT FISH)

March 25, 2016Uncategorizedbible signs and symbols, big fish, God, Jesus Christ, jonah, Lord, nineveh, Parallelsabarkley8

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Jonah’s story is summed up in one verse: “The LORD sent a big fish to swallow Jonah. Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights” (Jon 1:17). Jonah was an ordinary man, called by God to preach to Nineveh. But he is also a satirical and ridiculous figure, an example of what a prophet should not be. Fearing that the hated Ninevites might repent, Jonah refused God’s call and tried to run from God by boarding a ship bound for the

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