Jonah

[cardboardpunk]

joel, i missed your posts so much.
i decided to go read jonah after reading this thread...and i dont have much to add but..
i think its interesting that in jonahs prayer he referred to the belly of the whale as sheol. just like Jesus being in the 'heart of the earth' three days, three nights.

anyway, the book itself showed me that God loves us so much, despite our stupidity and stubborness. jonah was such a whiner, heh.

[SherAnna07]

From what I understand the person in the Old Testament who was closest to being a representation of Christ was Joseph (not the father of Christ). I think because of his humility.

[blitzkreig]

Jesus said He was the anti-type of Jonah:

Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

There are several studies on the exact points of similarity on line ... Here is a fairly in depth study:

http://biblia.com/jesusbible/jonah.htm

[MasterDummy]

You don't seem to know what the word "type" means when studying Scripture. Nor I suppose the term "anti-type" ...

You might like to learn of the tools before you take up the craft.

:hat

You need to explain the words type and anti-type as I shall show.
TYPE: To tell a story - makes a natural point.
ANTI-TYPE: To use the story in order to illustrate a point - makes a supernatural point.

[Joel]

um, no.

[Joel]

Type

Occurs only once in Scripture (1Co_10:11, A.V. marg.). The Greek word tupos is rendered “print” (Joh_20:25), “figure” (Act_7:43; Rom_5:14), “fashion” (Act_7:44), “manner” (Act_23:25), “form” (Rom_6:17), “example” or “ensample” (1Co_10:6, 1Co_10:11; Phi_3:17; 1Th_1:7; 2Th_3:9; 1Ti_4:12). It properly means a “model” or “pattern” or “mould” into which clay or wax was pressed, that it might take the figure or exact shape of the mould. The word “type” is generally used to denote a resemblance between something present and something future, which is called the “antitype.”

[Joel]

It is clear from these texts that the New Testament writers use the word “type” with some degree of latitude; yet one general idea is common to all, namely, “likeness.” A person, event or thing is so fashioned or appointed as to resemble another; the one is made to answer to the other in some essential feature; in some particulars the one matches the other. The two are called type and antitype; and the link which binds them together is the correspondence, the similarity, of the one with the other.





What are the distinctive features of a type? A type, to be such in reality, must possess three well-defined qualities.

(1) It must be a true picture of the person or the thing it represents or prefigures. A type is a draft or sketch of some well-defined feature of redemption, and therefore it must in some distinct way resemble its antitype, e.g. Aaron as high priest is a rough figure of Christ the Great High Priest, and the Day of Atonement in Israel (Lev 16) must be a true picture of the atoning work of Christ.

(2) The type must be of divine appointment. In its institution it is designed to bear a likeness to the antitype. Both type and antitype are preordained as constituent parts of the scheme of redemption. As centuries sometimes lie between the type and its accomplishment in the antitype, of course infinite wisdom alone can ordain the one to be the picture of the other. Only God can make types.

(3) A type always prefigures something future. A Scriptural type and predictive prophecy are in substance the same, differing only in form. This fact distinguishes between a symbol and a type. A symbol may represent a thing of the present or of the past as well as of the future, e.g. the symbols in the Lord's Supper. A type always looks to the future; an element of prediction must necessarily be in it.

[Joel]

Basically, a type is prophetic. It always represents something (or someone) in the future.

The anti-type is the fulfillment of what that type predicted. It is the prophecy realized.

[Buzzardhut]

Jonah Part One
http://www.heritage-media.com/audio/Bible/floyd-jones/Book-of-Jonah/WinMedia/TheBookOfJonah-1.wma

Jonah Part Two
http://www.heritage-media.com/audio/Bible/floyd-jones/Book-of-Jonah/WinMedia/TheBookOfJonah-2.wma

Jonah Part Three
http://www.heritage-media.com/audio/Bible/floyd-jones/Book-of-Jonah/WinMedia/TheBookOfJonah-3.wma

[Old 33]

Whether she used the right big special words or not, lisalisa made some valid observations about key differences between Jonah and Jesus.

Sure, there are similarities in the Jonah and Jesus narratives, as you've noted. There are also some dissimilarities, mostly involving Jonah's attitude, his stubbornness, and his temper tantrum when he doesn't get to go and smite the people of Ninevah afterall.