God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

The one Old Testament minor prophet that almost every child in Sunday school is acquainted with is the man known as Jonah. And this is the one book that if I said, tell me everything

you know, most people could tell me at least the general story. They know of that great

fish that swallowed

Jonah. But I want to suggest to you that the greatest miracle of the book is not the great fish.

The greatest miracle of the book is the great revival that God brought to an entire city and an

entire nation. The great miracle of the book is the salvation that God demonstrates.

This is one of the greatest missionary books in the Bible.

Jonah was in many ways the first foreign missionary sent out from Israel.

And so God sends him out with a message of mercy,

with a message of salvation and of repentance.

Jonah's name means dove.

Now he fulfilled that picture by flying away as quickly as possible, didn't he?

But you remember, law first mentioned, Genesis 8-8, the dove was first mentioned as being a bearer of good news.

Well, that's what God always intended.

Jonah was to deliver the good news.

He said, I thought he was to tell them three days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

Yes, that's exactly what he was to preach.

But here's the point.

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