Jonah 3 opens with a re-calling of the prophet and Jonah’s second response as he goes east to Nineveh with a prophecy he hopes will be fulfilled: “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” Once again, we find that the gentile world is not only open to hear the word of God, but acts in exemplary repentance from the king down. This is all done in the hope that God will be merciful. 3:10 reads: “God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.” In some ways this is a success story. Jonah warned and the people heeded his call. In another way, Jonah’s prophecy has not been fulfilled as a result of the repentant Gentiles. It raises questions around the nature of prophecy - that this is more than a telling of the future - but an expressing of the heart of God for all. Through Jonah’s obedience a whole, enemy-of-Israel city is saved.
Jonah 3:1-10
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