Hey guys, my name is Johnny Art of Annas and this is Dialin.

In this episode we cover the fourth and final chapter of the short book of Jonah.

This chapter is often neglected, but it contains the climax of this very important book.

Let's dial in.

Good stories typically have good endings.

There is a narrative arc, there's conflict, climax, and some sort of resolution.

That's the way stories typically go.

But the ending of Jonah is not what you would expect.

It's assuredly not the type of story that would attract publishers or producers today.

It's an amazing story with a very disappointing ending.

Yet here it is in Scripture.

Think back with me.

God had commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh,

the most brutal, violent, and idolatrous nation on earth.

In order to jog your memory of their atrocities, the British Museum can give us an idea through the Assyrian literature and art that they have on display.

The Nineveites used to build pyramids out of severed heads of their enemies.

They would burn cities to the ground.

One writer says that they would fill the lands with death and devastation.

Entire countries were filled with corpses. The rivers were clogged with the dead bones of their

enemies, and the Ninevites would cut down opposing warriors like weeds. This is Assyria. And Nineveh was the capital city,

the seat of this evil culture, and the people of Israel hated Nineveh with all their heart.

But after hearing Jonas preaching, it says in chapter three that the people repented, they

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