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   August,   
      
    DS>  On this day...   
    DS>     Jonah took   
    DS>     No brush   
    DS>     To mop his face   
    DS>     Where Jonah went   
    DS>     He needed space   
      
    AA> HUH? The only Jonah I know is the one in the story of Jonah and   
    AA> the great fish. What does the one above mean?   
      
     It's the same one. He basically was "running from God", as he   
   hated the people who lived in Ninevah. God wanted him to warn them   
   that judgment was imminent, unless repentance was forthcoming. Jonah    
   basically wanted the Ninevites wiped out, as they were a threat to   
   Israel and the Jews.   
      
     So, he boarded a ship going the other way, and God sent a huge   
   storm. When he was thrown overboard, he was swallowed by "a great   
   fish" (possibly a whale). Inside the stomach of the whale (it had   
   to be by Divine Providence that the digestive juices didn't destroy   
   him), Jonah had 3 days and nights to come to his senses. So, he   
   prayed to God, and "The Lord commanded the fish to vomit Jonah out   
   onto dry land". As big as the whale is, his stomach has to be as   
   well.   
      
     Well, Jonah basically was the only preacher who "wanted no converts".   
   He went in and announced "Forty days, and Ninevah shall be overthrown by   
   Divine Judgment". Amazingly, the king commanded all the people and the   
   animals to "repent in sackcloth and ashes"...and God turned from the   
   Judgment He was going to level upon Ninevah.   
      
     However, Jonah still wanted them destroyed, and basically "wished he   
   was dead"...because God didn't destroy the Ninevites. Yet, The Lord   
   told Jonah of "all the people and cattle there". We don't hear anything    
   further about Jonah in the Bible.   
      
     Unfortunately, for Ninevah, the repentance was apparently short lived,   
   as a short time later, they were back to their iniquity...and this time,    
   God did destroy them.   
      
     On a lighter note, in a children's Sunday School class, the teacher   
   asked the class what the story of Jonah and the whale showed. Little   
   Johnny (yes, him again ), said "It proves that you can't keep a good   
   man down"!! :P   
      
     Well, I had thoughts about eating lunch until I typed this reply. :P   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Cooking Rule: If at first you don't succeed, order pizza.   
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