Hey, everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right. Hey guys, this is the last of a five-part series we've been doing through the Book of Jonah.

This is about when God loves your enemy. It's exploring the last chapter of

the book of Jonah. If you haven't listened to the first four teachings that explore the earlier

parts of the book, I recommend you do that in the previous podcast. This last chapter of the book of

Jonah is actually one of the most puzzling and difficult parts of the book. I have a children's

book at home that I will never

read to my children. It says it's about the book of Jonah, but it happily leaves out any

recounting of the final chapter of the book, which is actually not that surprising because

the last chapter, Jonah chapter four, turns this story from a happy story of Jonah finally obeying and the Ninevites

responding in an ideal way to this message that comes from God's prophet. And then chapter

four just throws a huge wrench into the whole thing as God's own prophet gets really, really

angry at God for forgiving his enemies. So what I used this for was an opportunity both to talk about

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