Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey everyone, welcome back to a year in the Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm here with my co-host,

Alexa. Hi, friends. So today

we're going to be going deeper into the passage that we annotated yesterday at Jonah 117. To help us go

deeper, Alexa, can you help us understand where this passage fits in the overall story of

scripture? Yes, of course. So it's no surprise that we're continuing through the prophets. So here we've

come to the book of Jonah. The book of Jonah is much more narrative than other prophetic books. So

unlike Isaiah or Amos, we're not reading one prophecy or warning after another. Instead, we're

reading about a man, Jonah, who God calls to the wicked city of Nineveh and words about God's judgment if they don't repent.

What's interesting is that the prophetic books in the Old Testament mainly are addressing Israel or Judah's sins,

even though God does speak about the sins of other nations and his judgment for their sins.

But Jonah, though, is all about the sins of Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrians

who were enemies of Israel.

I'll talk more about why this is significant in just a little bit, but when God tells

Jonah to go to Nineveh, we don't read that Jonah immediately went.

Instead, Jonah high tails it far away from Nineveh, actively avoiding

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