Today is the 14th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's

fantastic, right? It's wonderful to be here. Wonderful to have this place to be around the global

campfire as we navigate through December together and the festivities

before us and the scriptures before us. We've been working our way through

the minor prophets in the Old Testament. That's how the Old Testament ends. And so today we're reaching another one of those minor

prophet books and this one has a bit of a twist to it. We'll be reading the book of

Jonah and Jonah was a prophet who lived in the northern

kingdom of Israel basically just west of the southern portion of the sea of

Galilei during the reign of King Jereboam. And we've read a number of

the prophets in the scriptures and we know that the Bible uses the prophets to call their

own people, the Jewish people, the Hebrew people to

repentance. Jonah's mission was to go to a totally different city and a totally

different people. He was to go to the city of Nineveh, which is one of the

largest cities in the world at that time. The ruins of ancient Nineveh are

still existent near the modern city of Mosul and Iraq a lot of a lot of those

rooms were damaged and in some of the unrest that has been in that region but they

still exist and and Jonah did not want to do this assignment whatsoever.

God commanded him to go to a people who were enemies of Israel and enemies of God and so Jonah ran away. Opposite direction,

total opposite direction, ran to the Mediterranean coast, got on a boat near Tel Aviv, what would be modern Tel Aviv, and took off.

And it's famous, this is a really famous story from Sunday school because Jonah ends up in the belly of a great fish and

after three days of repenting he is spewed out on the shore alive.

So for we who believe in Jesus we can see the foreshadowing of Jesus in this story.

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