JONAH'S STORY

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JONAHS STORY A QUINTESSENTIAL APPLICATION

• STORY
• HISTORY
• ALLEGORY
• ELIS TWO SONS
• EGYPT
• ISRAEL
• CANAAN

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THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, VOL. 1, p. 400

• THE ARK OF GOD
• God reproved Eli for his criminal neglect of
  family discipline. Eli reproved his sons, but did
  not restrain them.

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DESIRE OF AGES, p. 308

• All who obey as He did are likewise declaring
  that the law is "holy, and just, and good."
  Romans 712. On the other hand, all who break
  God's commandments are sustaining Satan's claim
  that the law is unjust, and cannot be obeyed.
  Thus they second the deceptions of the great
  adversary, and cast dishonor upon God. They are
  the children of the wicked one, who was the first
  rebel against God's law. To admit them into
  heaven would again bring in the elements of
  discord and rebellion, and imperil the well-being
  of the universe. No man who willfully disregards
  one principle of the law shall enter the kingdom
  of heaven.

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DISOBEDIENCE EQUALS DECEPTION

• PROCLAIM WORD
• DISOBEDIENT
• DISCEIVED
• DOWNWARD DESECENT
• DIVINE PRESENCE
• DETOUR
• DISPLEASED JONAH 41EXCEEDINGLY
• JONAHS REMEDY SURRENDER COMPLY

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JONAH OUT PICKETING

• PROTEST GOD
• PROVOKE NATURES WRATH
• CASE IN POINT
• ADAM EVE
• ELIS SONS
• JONAH
• JONAH 112
• For I know that for my sake this great tempest
  is upon you.

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JONAHS CRIMINAL NEGLECT

• WINDS TOPPLING THE SHIP
• SEA SINKING THE SHIP
• MARINERS DROWNING AT SEA
• CAPTAIN PRAYER FAST ASLEEP 16
• GENTILES GET CLOSER TO GOD
• LIVES OF THE NINEVITES WERE IN PERIL
• THE MARINERS TOOK THEIR CHANCES.

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PROBINGFINDING PROBABLE CAUSE

• JONAH 17
• And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and
  let us cast lots, that we may know for whose
  cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots,
  and the lot fell upon Jonah.
• ROMANS 224
• For the name of God is blasphemed among the
  Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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INTERROGATION

• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
• JONAH 18
• WHY ALL OF A SUDDENEVIL?
• WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION?
• WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?
• WHAT IS YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN?
• WHAT RACE OR ETHNIC GROUP?

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PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS, p. 494, 495

• THE FALL OF JERICHO
• God's command had been disregarded by one of
  those appointed to execute His judgments. And the
  nation was held accountable for the guilt of the
  transgressor "They have even taken of the
  accursed thing, and have also stolen, and
  dissembled also." Instruction was given to Joshua
  for the discovery and punishment of the criminal.
  The lot was to be employed for the detection of
  the guilty. Step by step the investigation went
  on. Closer and still closer came the fearful
  test. First the tribe, then the family, then the
  household, then the man was taken, and Achan the
  son of Carmi, of the tribe of Judah, was pointed
  out by the finger of God as the troubler of
  Israel.

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JONAHS BLASPHEMOUS TESTIMONY

• JONAH 19
• And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew and I
  fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made
  the sea and the dry land.
• 1 JOHN 418
• There is no fear in love but perfect love
  casteth out fear because fear hath torment.
• JONAH PROVIDENCE
• HE BECAME A PATHOLOGICAL PERJURER

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JONAH RESOLUTE NOT REMORSEFUL

• JONAH 111, 12
• Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto
  thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the
  sea wrought, and was tempestuous. And he said
  unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the
  sea
• Gentiles Try to reach land JONAH 113
• Gentiles Beseech JONAHS God VS.14
• Gentiles ROMANS 120 INVISIBLE POWER
• Wise men East Star MATTHEW 21, 2

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SAME SCENARIO TWO DIFFERENT OUTCOME

• JESUS BOAT MIDDLE OF A TEMPEST ASLEEP
• JESUS AWOKE
• JONAH BOAT MIDDLE OF A TEMPEST ASLEEP
• JONAH REMAIN ASLEEP

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PERILOUS TIMES DO YOU PONDER OR PLUNGE..?

• SEA PIT
• JONAH 21, 2
• Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of
  the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of
  mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me
  out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou
  heardest my voice.
• PSALMS 234
• Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
  shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou
  art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort
  me.

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SEA PIT JONAH BLAMES GOD

• JONAH 23
• For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the
  midst of the seas
• DOWNWARD SPIRAL PROPHET/PERJURER/PRISONER/PIT
  BARS 26
• REVELATION 2213
• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
  the first and the last.

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NEVER ASK OTHERS TO SURRENDER BEFORE YOU COMPLY!

• JONAHS MEMOIRS
• JONAH 28, 9
• They that observe lying vanities forsake their
  own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with
  the voice of thanksgiving I will pay that that
  I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
• JONAH 2 10
• And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited
  out Jonah upon the dry land.

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JONAH PAROLE

• JONAH 31-10 KINDERGARTEN
• JONAH SENT TO NINEVEH SAME TEST
• NINEVITES REPENT AFFLICT THEIR SOULS TURN FROM
  THEIR WICKEDNESS
• GOD SPARES NINEVEH TO JONAHS SURPRISE

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JONAHS REACTION SHOCK AND AWE

• JONAH 41
• But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was
  very angry.
• JONAHS BEHAVIOR CONTRASTED
• KIND HEARTEDHEART WAS KINDLED
• PATERNALPAROCHIAL
• PERSONABLEPECKISH
• POSITIVEPIGHEADED
• PASSIONATEPESSIMISTIC
• PRICELESSSUICIDAL

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JONAH 43

• Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my
  life from me for it is better for me to die
  than to live.
• BITTER NOT BETTER
• MEANER NOT MEEKER
• GODS PROPHET BECAME ANGRY BECAUSE PEOPLE WHOM
  HE THOUGHT WOULD REJECT GOD, ACCEPTED HIM.

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EVANGELIST TURNS ACTIVIST

• STORY JONAH 46-11
• JONAH 49 PLANT JONAH 411 PEOPLE
• IS THIS MESSAGE JUST A
• STORY?
• HISTORY?
• ALLEGORY?
• IN TIMES OF PROSPERITY, FEAR TAKES A BACK SEAT,
  WHILE GREED MOVES INTO THE DRIVERS SEAT. WHILE
  IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY, FEAR TAKES A FRONT SEAT,
  WHILE GREED MOVES TO THE BACK SEAT.

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ROMANS 1133

• O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
  knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his
  judgments, and his ways past finding out!
• OTHER WORLDS
• NOAH WICKED PROSPEROUS
• SODOM WICKED PROSPEROUS
• NINEVITES WICKED PROSPEROUS CRIMINAL NEGLECT
  JONAH 34
• JONAH PREACHED OVERTHROWN 40 DAYS

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LOYALTY POSITION BUT DISPOSITION

• E.G.W BIBLE COMMENTARY, VOL. 5, p. 1131.9
• Position does not make the man. It is Christ
  formed within that makes a man worthy of
  receiving the crown of life, that fadeth not
  away. . . .
• JONAHS PRECIPITOUS DECLINE
• DOWN TO JOPPA JONAH 13
• DOWN INTO THE BOAT 13
• DOWN INTO THE SIDES OF THE BOAT 15
• CAST DOWN INTO THE SEA 115
• DOWN INTO THE FISH BELLY 117 3 DAYS
• DOWN INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA 23
• DOWN BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN 26

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LESSONS JONAHS MEMOIRS

• FAITH NOT FEELINGS FREE VS. FARE JONAH 13
• DIFFERENCE JONAH JESUS
• BOTH PROPHETS/SLEEP/DUTY 13
• 3. GOD CALLS MAN/MESSAGE/MOVEMENT 31-3
• 4. GOD CALLS DENY SELFDEVOTE SAVIOR 41
• COMRADES NOT COWARDS
• GOD IS SEEKING FUGITIVE RUNNING AWAY/RUNNING OUT
  OF TIME
• GAVE COMPLIMENTS TO CAMOUFLAGE CRITICISMS JONAH
  112 CAST ME INTO THE SEA
• 8. JONAHS CONFESSION JONAH 27 CONSEQUENCES
  OF HIS DISOBEDIENCE
• WRONG WILL ALWAYS LEADS YOU DEEP DOWN