Jonah

[Buzzardhut]

I was skimming through Jonah, and realized

Jonah knew they would repent and he knew God would forgive them. He hated them so much, he didn't want to see God forgive them...Jonah 4:2

I think Emily Ruth had some excellent insites to the story, I think a close 'antitype' (trying to be punny) would be if God asked one of us to go a Klu Klux Klan warehouse in Idaho and tell them to repent. Look at what they are doing in the name of Christ, white pride etc, how many of us would be quick to jump on a greyhound and tell them people the 'good news' and if they did repent and God did forgive them, how unhappy would any of us be ....

I just found really facinating that Jonah said "Ah Lord God is this not what I said while I was still in Tarshish" He knew they would repent and God would forgive them remember he was a holy prophet, those guys were perty close to God, He was mad he could forsee what would happen and when it did, was even madder, the only was I can describe it, is a kkk repentence. Know what I mean?
It does not show Jonah's opinion of these people.
Jonah knew 'salvation was of the Jews" , not these Ninevites.
He may have been afraid God was turning from the Jews to the Gentiles.

[blitzkreig]

An interesting incite from Zane C. Hodges "HARMONY WITH GOD" ...

As we have seen in our previous sections, biblical repentance
is not a condition for eternal salvation. Instead it addresses the
need that sinners have (whether saved or unsaved) to repair their
relationship to God in order to prevent, or to terminate, His
temporal judgment on their sins.

The prodigal son, for example, found himself in dire straits in
the far country (Luke 15:14–16), and his miserable condition
prompted his repentance which led to his reunion with his father
(15:17–21). He is a classic example of a Christian backslider who
responds to the discipline of God in his life and returns to
fellowship with his heavenly Father.

Repentance and the Unsaved

But the call to repentance can also be addressed to an
unsaved audience who is either experiencing, or about to
experience, the temporal judgment of God upon their sins. Perhaps
the classic biblical example of this is the case of Nineveh, recorded
in the book of Jonah. So far as the statements of that book are
concerned, the issue was God’s temporal judgment: Yet forty days,
and Nineveh shall be overthrown (Jonah 3:4).

Nineveh’s repentance was impressive, to say the least, and
involved everyone in the city, since this was commanded by the
king and his nobles (3:7ff).

There is not a word in the book of
Jonah about the eternal salvation of the Ninevites, still less is there
any suggestion that God’s favor to them on this occasion was
based on His free grace. On the contrary, the book of Jonah
declares unmistakably:

Then God saw their works, that they turned
from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He
had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it (Jonah 3:10).

None of this is contradicted, of course, by the statement of
Jonah 3:5 that, The Ninevites believed God. As the context shows,
they were believing the divine message proclaimed by Jonah: Yet
forty days and Ninevah shall be overthrown (3:4).

When we come to the New Testament we discover that the
doctrine of repentance is no different there than in the Old
Testament. In fact, both the preaching of John the Baptist and of
our Lord Himself takes the Old Testament doctrine for granted.

Only when we realize this simple, but obvious, fact can we read a
number of New Testament passages with clarity and precision.

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[Wildcat81]

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

Ummm... quick question: Shouldn't it be antetype instead of antitype? From ante meaning "before, prior," rather than anti, which means "opposite to, instead of"?

Jus' wundrin'...

[blitzkreig]

Ummm... quick question: Shouldn't it be antetype instead of antitype? From ante meaning "before, prior," rather than anti, which means "opposite to, instead of"?

Jus' wundrin'...I have no idea. My gift is not spelling. And I am better at reading than writing.

Hey ... I just discovered ... I am a gifted reader. :lol2

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