Jonah 3 - A second chance and a shadow of the new covenant to come
Jonah 3:1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying, Arise go to Nineveh that great city and preach to it the message that I tell you. The picture of Christ Jesus shown in the book of Jonah is visible throughout and is well worth a study. Focusing on chapter 3, we see a picture of both the humanity of Jonah, which should serve as a lesson to ourselves in our application of God's grace, and a picture of God's plan for salvation from the Old Testament through to the New Testament. Jonah 1:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” If we read Jonah chapter 1 we can see that Jonah chapter 3 begins exactly the same way that Jonah 1 began. We know from reading the previous chapters that Jonah refused to obey God in chapter 1. Jonah had his own ideas and instead chose to flee to Tarshish from the port of Joppa (Tel-Aviv) rather than go and give God's message of repentance ...