WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:11.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:16.719 Good morning, good morning. Here we are we talk good 5 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.039 morning do you and you? And you? 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.800 Yeah, good job, thank you, thank you so much. Man. 7 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.280 We were waiting and waiting, we were wishing upon a star, 8 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.359 upon a star, that you would sing to us this week, 9 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.399 and you did it. Here we are in the middle 10 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:38.479 of the week. Yes, it's perfect day, I know, perfect 11 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.520 right here. Thank you, Chris, You're welcome, Jeff, Chris. 12 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.240 You continually saying that people like it or whatever. 13 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:50.600 Yeah, we regularly get an email or a text or 14 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:51.320 something about it. 15 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:54.640 Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, all right. Wait, today we're diving 16 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.880 into Jonah, the brand new book of the Bible for us. 17 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.280 Brand new, and this just written hot off the press. 18 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.280 This just didn't know, I mean new for this new 19 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:06.680 for us. 20 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:08.760 Because we've been in first second Kings and first and 21 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.359 second chronicles for for a while, like one hundred years 22 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:11.680 or something. 23 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.879 Are going to go back after Jonah? Well yeah, probably 24 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.159 probably right, i'd imagine. Okay, So, because again we're doing 25 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:22.200 this chronologically, so before we dive into Jonah today we 26 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.519 have a segment, and this is one of my favorite segments, and. 27 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.840 It is would you rather okay? And these are fun Yeah, 28 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:30.680 I just you. 29 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.760 Know, I love the fact that it's too hard choices. 30 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:33.359 Okay. 31 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.200 So number one, would you rather Jeff be a great 32 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.480 chef who loves his job or have a great chef 33 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:42.599 cook for you? 34 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.079 Is being the great chef his job or he is 35 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.879 a great chef and he loves his job. Because that's me. 36 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.640 It says, be a great chef. Oh, I see, I'm 37 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:56.439 not a great chef. 38 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:00.239 I cooked a little, That's right. 39 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:00.840 Yeah. 40 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.120 Who loves his job? Which job? That's the question. 41 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.920 You ever see Christopher walking into that clib of that 42 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:07.959 movie where he goes, so let me get this straight. 43 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.199 He goes, if I do between three and four hundred 44 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.919 push ups, I get all the money. And there's a 45 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.759 big group of men. He's like yeah, and they lay 46 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.800 down all this money and he gets down and he 47 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.080 does four push ups and he takes the money and 48 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.639 they go, wait, old man, you said between three and 49 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.680 four hundred push ups. He goes right, between three and 50 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.879 four hundred push ups and then he took the money 51 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:29.800 and he left. 52 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.840 Because he did four, which is between three and four hundred. 53 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:35.879 You just did. 54 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:36.840 That's exactly what I did. 55 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:37.199 Yeah. 56 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.719 Yeah, So, or have a great chef cook for you? 57 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.639 I think, Ah, man, I don't know what would you say? 58 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.240 Well, there's no doubt for me, I'd love to have 59 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.879 a great chef cook for me. Yeah, you kid me. 60 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:51.319 It's like with the dream of my life. 61 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:53.360 I love it. I love going to a good restaurant 62 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:55.960 and having a good meal. But I also love cooking 63 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.520 a good meal. Jeff, Well, I think I'm going to 64 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.199 have it. I like the job I have, so I 65 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.400 don't want a new job. Ok I'm gonna have I'm 66 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:05.240 gonna have a chift cook chef cook for me. Okay, 67 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.360 all right, but I love cooking. 68 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:06.960 Okay. 69 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.400 Would you rather face the heat of the desert or 70 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:11.960 the cold of the Arctic. 71 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.080 The heated desert, which is pretty brutal. Yes, for the 72 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.759 cold of the Arctic. Yes, Oh that's that's pretty tough. 73 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.240 Well, I kind of faced this couple of days ago. 74 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.400 You were in the Arctic. 75 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.680 No, I was. I was in I was in the desert. 76 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.960 It was one hundred degrees ninety nine and one hundred 77 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:30.560 degrees every day. 78 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:31.639 Yeah. 79 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.039 I flew home and when I landed. It was seventeen 80 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.680 degrees outside when I walked out the door of the airport. Okay, 81 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.719 all right, not quite the right ache, but not quite. 82 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:41.919 But it was cold, literally it was cold. It was cold. 83 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:48.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, so I heard I've heard 84 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.879 that when you get cold enough, you don't really feel anything. 85 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:52.680 There's not much more. 86 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.520 Yeah, but I would definitely for me, I would say 87 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.439 the heat of the desert. I guess, yeah, as long 88 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:01.120 as you have water. 89 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.199 I was going to say, it doesn't say that you don't. 90 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.360 You can't manage it. So you're either just managing the 91 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.400 heat of the desert or managing the cold of the Arctic. 92 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.000 Yeah, and I think between those two, I would rather manage. 93 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.680 Yeah, I think so too. I think so yeah. Okay, 94 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.800 well I've done it enough that I think I don't 95 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:18.560 have a lot of experience in the Arctic. Just we 96 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.759 live in Michigan. Sometimes we get Arctic. 97 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:27.120 Blasts, right right, Arctic blasts number three? Taco Bell. Would 98 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.120 you rather live in a castle with a secret passages 99 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.680 or a modern mansion with all the latest technology? 100 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.120 No brainer? What modern mansion? 101 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:38.759 This is very hard for me. 102 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:42.920 Yeah, because with all the latest technology, I know but it. 103 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.480 Doesn't say that you can't put some technology in the 104 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:46.319 secret Castle. 105 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:47.600 That's true. That's true. 106 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:49.600 So there's the lawyer in my head too. 107 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.800 That's kind of cool. Secret Castle's kind of cool. 108 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.839 I love the secret Castle thing, man, I love it 109 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:57.160 like nobody's business. 110 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.560 All Right, you get it. I'll come over to your 111 00:04:58.560 --> 00:04:59.120 place and vision. 112 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:00.600 I'm going to say, see Creek Castle. 113 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.879 Okay, okay, yeah. Would you rather have ears that record 114 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:06.600 everything you hear or eyes that record everything you see? 115 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.199 Oh but wait a minute, does that mean that you 116 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:14.040 have no sound on the recording of the eyes? I 117 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:14.480 don't know. 118 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.160 That's what I didn't say that it does. It doesn't 119 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.360 exclude it. It's just saying you remember everything you see, 120 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:20.480 or you remember everything you're here. 121 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.519 But the distinguished is audio or video, That's what it's saying. 122 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.240 I don't think so. I think it's the fact that 123 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:26.279 it's recording everything. 124 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.120 Well, then what then you have the audio? If it's 125 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.680 if your video has audio? 126 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:32.079 Well, she didn't think it through. 127 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:33.199 No, that's not true. 128 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:34.639 She does not exclude anything. 129 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:39.600 It's the intent, Jeff. Okay, So I'm gonna say video anyway. Video, 130 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:40.720 I'm gonna say video. 131 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.600 Well, it's because you already have ears that record everything 132 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:48.560 you say. Right, zar Ball can pull out things from 133 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.839 obscure conversations from like three years ago and to no 134 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.920 I said this, and then you said this, and then 135 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:55.800 I said this. Right, you already have that. 136 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.959 Yeah, well it depends on the topic. But yes, my 137 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.720 wife would say, I'm terrible at the things that really matter, and. 138 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:07.680 You're selective and what you remember. Okay, yeah, I think 139 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.680 I go with the eyes too. I don't know, maybe 140 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.160 ears not ears. I would have ears that record everything. 141 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.000 Oh really yeah, yeah, I think so audio. 142 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.000 Okay. Would you rather your life be a game of 143 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:18.959 SIMS or your life be the Truman Show? 144 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:21.399 Remind me what SIMMS is again. 145 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.199 SIMMS is like a video game where you're kind of, 146 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:30.600 I don't know, developing society, building. 147 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.879 Please build, oh, sim city yeah SIMS Yeah, yeah, sim city, 148 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.480 sim zoo and all that stuff. 149 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.160 Okay, would you rather be the l's like where you're 150 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.480 the one controlling? So the one SIMS is you're controlling society. 151 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:45.240 The Truman Show is everybody. You're living in the show. 152 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:47.839 So you're controlling the show or living in the show. 153 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.199 There's there's no question. Would you rather be in control? 154 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.040 Or be controlled. I'd rather be in controlled. 155 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.399 Yeah, me too, Yeah sims Okay, I. 156 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.639 Mean, is there anybody who'd like to say I'd like 157 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:00.959 to be the planet? 158 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.160 Wait, wake up and discover you're in the in the 159 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:05.120 Truman Show. 160 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.199 Yeah, you're you're the star of a fake life. Yeah 161 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.600 I don't think so. Yeah, I mean we vote for that. 162 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.160 Talking about waking up and being the star of the story. 163 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:15.480 Ooh ooh. 164 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.879 Jonah wakes up one day, wakes up one day, and 165 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.319 God says, Joonah got a big planned for you. We're 166 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:20.839 going to write a whole book about your story. 167 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.040 Wow. And Jonah had no idea when he woke up 168 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:24.079 he can be this star. 169 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.519 He had no idea his own, no idea. 170 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:27.560 Wow. 171 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.439 So we're jumping into the book of Jonah today. That 172 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.120 was pretty good. To stop your It was good, all right, 173 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.759 I liked it. It was a pretty bad transition. So 174 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.920 Jonah chapter one, verse one, We're gonna read the whole 175 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.240 chapter and it says the Lord gave this message to Jonahs, 176 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.920 son of an Amati, get up and go to the great 177 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:45.800 City of nine us. See he got up in the morning. Remember, 178 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.639 he woke up announced my judgment against it because I 179 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.319 have seen how wicked its people are. But Jonah got 180 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.720 up and went in the opposite direction to get away 181 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:56.639 from the Lord. He went down to the port of Joppa, 182 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.639 where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought 183 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.199 a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from 184 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.040 the Lord by sailing to Tarshish. But the Lord hurled 185 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:08.079 a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm 186 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:11.240 that threatened to break the ship apart. Fearing for their lives, 187 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.600 the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and 188 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:16.000 through the cargo overboard the light and the ship. But 189 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.519 all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold, 190 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.079 So the captain went down after him. How can you 191 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.000 sleep at a time like this, he shouted, Get up 192 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.480 and pray to your god. Maybe he will pay attention 193 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.279 to us and spare our lives. Then the crew cast 194 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.240 lots to see which of them had offended the gods 195 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.480 and caused the terrible storm. When they did this, the 196 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.440 lots identified Jonah as the culprit. Why has this awful 197 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.919 storm come down on us? They demanded, Who are you? 198 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.519 What is your line of work? What country are you from? 199 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.679 What's your nationality. Jonah answered, I am a Hebrew, and 200 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.320 I worshiped the Lord, the god of heaven, who made 201 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.039 the sea in the land. Sailors were terrified when they 202 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:50.600 heard this, for he had already told them he was 203 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.320 running away from the Lord. Oh why did you do it, 204 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.120 they groaned. Since the storm was getting worse all the time, 205 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.200 they asked him, what should we do to you to 206 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.679 stop this storm? Me into the sea, Jonah said, and 207 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.080 it will become calm again. I know that this terrible 208 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.799 storm is all my fault. Instead, the sailors rode even 209 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:10.879 harder to get the ship to the land, but the 210 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.000 stormy sea was too violent for them and they couldn't 211 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.879 make it. Then they cried out to the Lord, Jonah's god. 212 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:17.960 Oh Lord, they pleaded, don't make us die for this 213 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.759 man's sin, and don't hold us responsible for his death. 214 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.240 Oh Lord, you have sent this storm upon him for 215 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.200 your own good reasons. Then the sailors picked Jonah up, 216 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.759 threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped 217 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.480 at once. The sailors were awe struck by the Lord's 218 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.000 great power, and they offered him a sacrifice and vowed 219 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.519 to serve him. Now the Lord had arranged for a 220 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.320 great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the 221 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.240 fish for three days and three nights. 222 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.159 We well, we talk about a lot happening from the 223 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:45.240 start of the chapter. 224 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.879 To the end of the sear seventeen verses, right, that 225 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:48.519 is a lot. 226 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.480 And I always think of the I told you. I 227 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.600 think I told you this a long time ago. But 228 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.519 there was a college kid that had written a song 229 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.840 by himself. So the only person that knows this tune 230 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.799 is like me and this college kid, and probably like 231 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.399 my brother Jimmy. But so his music was never popular, 232 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.120 but he got and he sang it for the group 233 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.279 and I still remember it, and he goes, Jonah, Oh, Jonah, 234 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.919 when will you ever learn? The plan of God? Almady 235 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.840 is not a thing to spurn you can. You can't 236 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.240 get away from God no matter how you try. So 237 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.799 do his will, his plan fulfilled, and you'll be a 238 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:31.279 happy guy. It's a good one. It's a lame that's 239 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.039 a good one. But I always think of that when 240 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.559 I think of Jonah for some reason, because I bought 241 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.519 his cassette tape and we played it cassette tape. Yep, 242 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.159 this college kid anyway, that was happening. Yep, it was. 243 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.519 So listen, here's a couple of different things about Jonah. 244 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:56.480 So Jonah is trying to sell sale from Joppa to Tarshish, 245 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:02.080 which is about twelve hundred miles west of where Japa is. 246 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.480 So he's trying to get in the boat, and he's 247 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.519 trying to go west to get away from Ninevah because 248 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:14.879 Ninevah is about six hundred miles north east of where 249 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.720 he is. So if you think about it, Tarshis was northwest. 250 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.240 He's really like running in the opposite direction, right, and 251 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:25.919 he's going by sea, right. He's trying to separate himself, 252 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.240 you know, through the Mediterranean Sea. He's trying to put 253 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.960 as much distance in between him and where God is 254 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.000 telling him to go. And the Ninevah was a very 255 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.919 prominent city, a very important city in the Assyrian Empire, 256 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.360 and Jonah had grown up hating the Assyrians, and the 257 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.559 Assyrians actually just a few years before this had oppressed 258 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.639 the Israelites. So I remember preaching on this one time 259 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.159 just recently. Actually, we just did a series like five 260 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:00.679 six months ago, and I remember thinking this would have 261 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.440 been like just after a few years, after nine to 262 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.759 eleven to go in the middle of Times Square and 263 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.480 to tell a Christian who lived there, Hey, why don't 264 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:15.279 you go into you know, you know, find the the 265 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.519 Arabic Islamic you know, radicalists and go give the Gospel 266 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.080 to them. And that's pretty extreme. Find go find isis 267 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.080 That's what I'm looking for. And and you know, again, 268 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:32.759 I mean the atrocities of the Assyrians were probably that extreme. 269 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:34.120 Yeah, they really were. 270 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.480 They slaughtered people, women, children, They took spoils and oppression 271 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.399 and wars and things like that. So I mean it 272 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:44.279 would have been pretty similar. So we can't quite imagine 273 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.000 the hatred that Jonah had because we're like what you have, Like, 274 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.600 are you racist? Are you? Are you? Are you a bigot? No, 275 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:57.720 he had legitimate disdain towards the Assyrians. And not only that, 276 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:00.879 but if you're an Israelite who loves God, which of 277 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.840 course Jonah does and and did and does. He's proven 278 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.399 to be a person who love and recognizes God. And 279 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:11.639 if you love God, then you you you detest their 280 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:16.240 idolatrous practices, right, so that they were the worst sinners ever. 281 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.039 Even God says that they are. Right, there's some of 282 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.320 the worst, some of the worst, and so and so 283 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:26.080 Jonah is committing the sin of saying they're not worthy 284 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.240 of God's grace. That's what it is, right, So it's 285 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.000 not racism, although it is. It's a little bit of racism, 286 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.639 but that's not the primary objection. 287 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:36.840 Yeah, I don't know that he was against them because 288 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.480 they were Assyrian. He was against the Assyrians because they 289 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.039 were terrifying. That's correct, right, that's a great so. So 290 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:45.879 a person might be terrified to try to go or 291 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:49.960 or not even want God to forgive members of Isis, right, 292 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.039 But that doesn't mean that you're racist towards people from 293 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:56.080 the Middle East. Correct, You just don't like Isis so 294 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.080 much that you want God to judge them, not set 295 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.679 them free. Right, right, And that's how they would have 296 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.799 viewed it. So Assyria at the time, this is about 297 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:06.480 fifty years before Syria became the world power. So they 298 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.440 were ascending. Yep, they were becoming more and more powerful. 299 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.840 They're to the northeast of Israel, and the people knew man, 300 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.960 nobody can stand before them when they come in. They 301 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.639 do horrific things to people. They flay people alive, they 302 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.360 they they they rape the women, they burn everything, they destroyed. 303 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.440 They're just they're horrible, horrible people, and then on top 304 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.759 of that, their worship practices are horrible, everything about them. 305 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.360 So that's kind of what he's looking at. There was 306 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:35.320 I don't think I want God to forgive them, that's right, 307 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.320 So Jonah. So to give you a kind of an 308 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.519 idea where Jonah fits, he's operating during the time of 309 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:46.679 King Uzaiah and before and this would be in the 310 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.879 later years of Joan of Elisha's life. Oh yeah, so 311 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.840 there's a thing in Second Kings that talks about there 312 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.840 was a group of prophets, remember that that one time, 313 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.519 the group of Raphits very likely he was part of 314 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.320 that group of prophets, is what the Jews bel there's 315 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:02.759 the Jewish people believe. Now I'm not sure I've ever 316 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:04.960 had that that Jonah was part of that group of 317 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.759 prophets that Elisha knew. And remember when Leisha was getting 318 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:10.679 old and he wanted that group of prophets. 319 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.000 So that's interesting. 320 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.320 So it would have been about that same time. Yeah, 321 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.080 So here's a man of God. He hears from God. 322 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:19.519 He's a good guy, right, He's one of the heroes 323 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.919 for God's people, And so it just happens to be 324 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.279 this one time. He's like, I really don't how bad 325 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.320 is that that? You're one really bad behavior moments the 326 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.519 only thing that gets recorded for the next twenty eight 327 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.039 hundred years, right right, right right. 328 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.720 But it's a big one. Yeah, it's a big, big 329 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.600 one and it's and it's only big because the city 330 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.279 of Ninevah, you know, there's a there's a there's a 331 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:43.759 big confrontation that's about to happen. We'll get to that 332 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:47.879 in chapter three. But but yeah, it's a it's a 333 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.639 it's a big there's a big happening that takes place there, 334 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.720 and so it's pretty massive. But the assignment is go, yeah, 335 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:55.960 that's the assignment. Right. 336 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:01.480 So Ninevah was the capital city of Syrian Empire. Nineva 337 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:06.320 is in modern day Mosl in Iraq today. So if 338 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.320 you remember back a number of years ago when Isis 339 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:13.200 was destroying the gates to nineva there in Mosil, all 340 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.840 the destruction, they were selling a lot of the artifacts 341 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.039 and stuff from this great city all that it was. 342 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.720 So Mosl was the is where ninev used to be. 343 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.399 And so he goes from there and it said heads 344 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:32.559 to Tarsish and there's witches to the northwest, so there's 345 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:38.200 different arguments about Tarsish. For hundreds of years, scholars said 346 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.879 that they believed that Tarsish was Tartessos in modern day 347 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.399 Spain on the coast. It was a mining city, and 348 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.679 it was like one of the farthest things that people 349 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.519 would have known about. To the west. Right, you're getting 350 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.159 great towards the entrance into the Gibraltar and that that area. 351 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.120 They were afraid to sail past it because the storms 352 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.480 are so big, the you know, all that kind of stuff. 353 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:00.960 They believe you all off the end of the planet. 354 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.119 So this was about as far away as you could go. 355 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:05.920 So for hundreds of years, that's what most of the 356 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:10.440 elogiers believe. There's some thought maybe Tarsia, Tarshish and Tarsus, 357 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.039 remember paul Is. Yeah, that was to the far side 358 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.440 of is Cilicia, which would be in modern day Turkey Greece, 359 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:21.440 you know, but it was still far to the way, 360 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.440 almost as far to the west as he would have 361 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.559 needed to have gone to the east to get the Ninevah. 362 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.640 So that could be it too, some people think, and 363 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:31.480 there's some indication maybe Carthage could have been it. Where 364 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:36.720 where Hannibal was from. Remember when Hannibal invaded Rome. No 365 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:39.880 wrong one. Hannibal was a great warrior that was able 366 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:44.119 to defeat Rome. He brought the elephants and fun univer Okay, anyways, 367 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.720 it's one of the great warriors of history. Carthage was 368 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.359 on the northern northern African coast, which was still far 369 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.000 to the west. 370 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:51.759 Elephants. 371 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.440 Yeah, yeah, wow, ye, yeah, that's cool. Battle elephants. Rome 372 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.480 has never had to deal with that before, so yeah, 373 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.680 it's neat. They came through the mountains, They came through 374 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.799 the Alps. 375 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:02.720 Very fast though a ballot. Elephants. 376 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:07.759 Yeah, they're indefeatable home, undefeatable. Anyways, anyways, you hung up 377 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.519 on the elephants. So anyway, it was to the west. 378 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.640 It's at least as far west as he needed to 379 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.319 have gone east in order to get to end. 380 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:17.359 The point of that was he's going to go to 381 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:18.319 the end of the world as he. 382 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.880 As much as he could. Yeah, it's far away from 383 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.359 this as possible. And isn't it funny how, you know, 384 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.079 when when when we know what we're supposed to do 385 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.119 and we don't want to do it. It's weird to 386 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:35.680 me how often we go in exactly the opposite direction. Yeah, right, 387 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:40.240 the exact opposite direction, whether you know, well, I'm not 388 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.720 getting the specifics. I think anybody listening you know what 389 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.960 we're talking about, that God's drawing you one way, and 390 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.039 you're like, nope, and I'm going to go the opposite direction. 391 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.359 We wind up making so many dumb choices running from God. 392 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.559 So now he's on the boat. He's sleeping soundly right 393 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:56.799 there in the middle of this crazy storm. And it's 394 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.480 not like he's on an ocean liner. He's probably on 395 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:02.839 a boat. It's thirty feet long, fifty feet long, it's 396 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.759 not a huge boat, and they're being battered by the sea. 397 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:12.079 He's asleep down in the bottom. These pagan boat sailors 398 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.599 come down and they roll dice, cast lots. They rolled 399 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.200 dice to try to figure out who's guilty, and the 400 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:21.079 dices land on Jonah, just Jonah, and then like, what 401 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.200