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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 ...

Following from the previous post, lets continue at Daniel 6 . If you've read any other posts on here, you've grasped the fact that everything in the Bible points to Christ and the Gospel. Lets look at how Daniel is a picture of the Christ to come, approximately 548 years later: Just like Jesus, Daniel faces opposition from the local leaders of his day. Jesus often received hostility from the Saduccees and Pharisees, who made up the Jewish council. ( Daniel 6:4 "...so the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel..."). Similarly, Mark 3:2 states "some Pharisees were trying to find fault with Jesus..." Verse 6 states, "then the Pharisees went out and began to make plans with the Herodians. They wanted to kill Jesus." The religious leaders of Jesus' day were unable to find fault with Him despite their efforts. In Luke 23:4  after interrogating Jesus, Pilate declared "I find no fault in this man" The L...