Most importantly, Sticky, do not forget that Jonah, who spent 3 days in the depth of depths, is a pre-figuring of Jesus Christ, who was resurrected (spit up by "the fish") after 3 days in the "belly of the Earth". And in staying with the "fish motif", it was amongst fisherman that he gathered the apostles, and the miracles of the "loaves and fishes" is expounded in Matthew Ch.16 immediately following his mention of the "sign of Jonah".
Sticky, perhaps the real paradox here is whether or not this generation shall repent in time to avoid the 'carved in stone' prophecy of a nuclear holocaust beginning in the Middle East, and imminently too, as so many children of Abraham seem to profess belief in these days. Look here:
Israel Warns World War III May be Biblical War of Gog and Magog - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Arutz Sheva
WHERE IS OUR HOPE? HERE:
Acts 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
"31"derful verses....
ONE BLOOD, Sticky....ONE BLOOD. Or do you not recognize the authority of St. Paul, the Pharisaic Zealot turned apostle, who called himself the "least of the apostles"? A man who studied under the rabbi Gamaliel, who was surely widely recognized as a master of Israel? Remember, the Old Testament cannot be understood in the proper spirit lest the New Testament, the faithful Gospel of Christ, be recognized as its fulfillment.
Oh,Sticky....oh my beloved non-partisan Sticky.... Paul (formerly Saul, who was also prefigured by King Saul, the same that persecuted David, who in turn was a prefiguring of Christ!...) was converted after he had been KNOCKED OFF his "HIGH HORSE" while on the way to persecute the brethren in Damascus.
To all that even remotely care about the article that Sticky posted, a much better understanding of the significance of Jonah can be found here:
JONAH: GOD?S COMEDY
Yours in Christ,
Al
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And here we lie still, ever enticed by a false hope in this mad prison of glass chains and cotton whips." - Anonymous