Rick and Svea grapple with a number of important themes from Jonah this week:
- God's provision
- Jonah is full of biblical parallels
- Obedience
Topics discussed in this episode:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:59 Lots of fun aspects and different connections in the text a more casual reading may miss. (Such as the fish in Jonah switches from masculine to feminine in Hebrew.)
- 04:25 The fish: tomb or womb?
- 05:51 Did Jonah's view of the fish change in retrospect? God's provision may look different than we're expecting.
- 07:21 Two rabbit trails: the fish-historical narrative vs parable vs satire and womb-God's compassion.
- 10:06 Parallel between Jonah's fish and the Christian fish symbol - Jesus is the means of deliverance.
- 12:46 Typology: the parallel with baptism. The inexhaustible depths of how Jonah is connected to the entire Bible.
- 20:30 Jonah chapter three: half-hearted obedience.
- 22:51 Where many of us find ourselves: wanting to be obedient to God but not always for the right reasons. External Obedience + Internal Obstinance = Slavery.
- 29:46 A comparison and contrast of walking through difficult seasons of obedience with what we see in Jonah.
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