Welcome to the Book of Mormon Central Come Follow Me podcast with your host, Lynn Wilson and John Show.

Shalom, hello. Nice to be with you to talk about these beautiful minor prophets with a major message, our wonderful Jonah and Micah.

So we're starting with Jonah. Who's Jonah? What time period you live in? What is the northern tribes are only a little over 100 years old.

It's during a very wicked time of Jerobolm the second. It's right before the Assyrian conquest

comes over and takes over the northern kingdoms. First of all, they just become a vassal state for 20 years

before they're deported in 721. So the time period is roughly about 790 BC to 770 BC because we are told who the king is.

So we get these general periods of time. But this is really, Jonah is a minor prophet with such a major impact because our Savior uses the sign of Jonah as the sign of his resurrection.

We have three gospels that quote our Savior saying he will use the sign of Jonah.

So he has a great impact for hundreds and hundreds of years beyond his life because of the way the Lord saved his life with a fish.

But if we want to look at that time period, it's Second Kings chapter 14. And verse 25 also

tells us that Jonah preached to these northern kingdoms of Israel and Samaria. It's a similar time

as Isaiah is preaching down in the south or Micah, maybe a little bit earlier than Micah, but just about this same time period.

And his testimony, his story is written to witness of the resurrection, even though he's not resurrected.

It's just that he came back to a chance to live again.

But this whole concept of who are the Lord's enemies and who are our enemies is brought into

question in this nice little short book.

I think for me, one of my favorite themes of this book is the atonement and repentance.

How about you?

I think so too.

I mean, what's stuff to me in this most recent reading was that the Lord rewards good behavior regardless of race, which we talk about in the New Testament a little bit later, right?

Yes.

Yes, it doesn't matter if you're not from the Trojan tribe.

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