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Angry at Mercy: A City That Repents and a Prophet Who Cannot Celebrate | Jonah 2–4
Episode Overview
Today we finish Jonah. Chapter 2 is a prayer offered from inside a fish, and it reads like a psalm—seaweed wrapped around his head, the deep closing over him, and then the turn: salvation comes from the Lord. Notice that Jonah's circumstances have not improved at all when he says it. He is still in the fish.
Chapter 3 delivers the most successful sermon in Scripture, and it is eight words long. Jonah walks into Nineveh announcing destruction in forty days, and the entire city believes God—the king comes down off his throne, sits in ashes, and orders fasting so thorough it…
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