Day 188 (Jonah 1-4) - Year 7

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Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

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0:00.0	Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.
0:13.3	Congratulations.
0:14.4	Today we finished our 18th book of the Bible, so let's talk about it.
0:18.6	Jonah was a prophet who lived during the time of King Jerry II, a king in the northern kingdom of
0:22.8	Israel.
0:23.5	This is around 750 BC.
0:26.3	Some people regard this book as allegory and not as historical fact, but one important
0:31.3	thing to note, it's almost certainly not a parable, because one of the characteristics
0:36.3	of parables is that they have
0:37.6	anonymous characters, not real humans with names, whereas Jonah is mentioned by name in both the
0:43.8	book of second kings and by Christ himself in Matthew 12. And on top of that, it's far more complex
0:51.3	than any other parables we have in scripture. Regardless whether you view it as allegory or history,
0:56.9	the things it reveals to us about God remain the same.
1:00.1	He shows love and mercy to many of his enemies,
1:03.6	choosing to adopt them into his family.
1:06.6	Jonah is probably the author of this book
1:08.7	because it includes details only he would know.
1:11.8	And since a lot of the book shows how foolish and selfish Jonah was, it probably serves as
1:16.7	evidence that he was able to look back on things with a healthy dose of humility and humor.
1:21.4	It seems like he eventually learned not to take himself too seriously, hopefully.
1:26.2	But that's definitely not how he started out.
1:29.2	When God first commissions Jonah to go rebuke the Ninevites for their wicked ways, Jonah balks at the
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