Welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts, Matt, and Todd. We are two ministers who love the

stories of the Bible, and we want to share them with you. And today's story is

mm-mm-good. Is it ever, Todd? This is a special episode, Todd, because we're recording this

at night. Yes. Things are spooky. Late at night, yeah. Anything can happen. It's electric in here.

And speaking of happening, there's a lot of stuff happening with Jonah right now. We are halfway through this story. And we're going to jump on into scene one. We're going to cover chapters three and four of the book of Jonah. Scene one we're calling, past the sackcloth. Where we last left Jonah, he was being spat up onto dry land. And keep in mind, Todd, this is a huge kindness to the way we're profit.

God had kept him alive in the great fish's stomach, and now the Lord is making sure that Jonah doesn't drown.

Because your boy, he's got to be exhausted.

I mean, I'm out of wind taking my hot dog out of the microwave. Jonah has just

been slowly eaten by fish acid. He needs to take a beat because if he was just left in the ocean,

your boy is probably going to drown. So God has the fish spit him on the dry land. There's no

question if he's going to make it or not. And here's Jonah. He's laying on the

shore, no doubt exhausted, no doubt slightly decomposed. And God calls him to stand up and go preach

a warning to the Ninevites. And it appears that Jonah has learned his lesson because as soon

as God gives him the prompt, Todd, Jonah makes the journey to Nineveh. And this place is

impressive. The city was surrounded by an inner and outer wall. The inner wall was 50 feet wide,

100 feet tall, 8 miles in circumference, and the outer wall was even larger, protecting fields and

smaller towns.

God wanted Jonah not just to preach to Nineveh proper, but the whole of its occupants.

Nobody's left out, Todd.

This is like Oprah's special things.

Do you remember that show?

Yeah.

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