Jonah 1:1
Outline:
I. \\#Jonah 1:1-2:10\\ Jonah’s Disobedience
A. \\#Jonah 1:1-2\\ The Call from God
B. \\#Jonah 1:3\\ The Willfulness of Jonah
C. \\#Jonah 1:4-2:10\\ The Hand of God
1. \\#Jon 1:4\\ The Lord Gets Involved
2. \\#Jon 1:5\\ Jonah’s Reaction
3. \\#Jon 1:5-16\\ The Mariners Labor
4. \\#Jon 1:12\\ Jonah’s Hardness
5. \\#Jon 1:17\\ The Lord’s Fish
6. \\#Jon 1:17\\ Jonah’s Duration
Notes:
I. \\#Jonah 1:1-2:10\\ Jonah’s Disobedience
A. \\#Jonah 1:1-2\\ The Call from God
1. Jonah (DOVE) was the son of Amittai (MY TRUE ONE).
2 Kings 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he
spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which
was of Gathhepher.
a. He was from Gath Hepher, a city in Zebulun, northern Israel.
b. Jonah had been an obedient prophet in Israel and was "being
promoted" by God to work outside his own nation.
2. "Arise, go to Ninevah" - God’s call was for him to go to a nation
which had always been hostile toward Israel.
B. \\#Jonah 1:3\\ The Willfulness of Jonah
1. "But Jonah rose to flee unto Tarshish"
a. Tarshish is believed to have been in Spain.
b. Jonah would rather flee 2500 miles in rebellion than to travel
500 miles in obedience.
2. Perhaps Jonah rebelled because of past confrontations between
Assyria and Israel. Perhaps, the Lord had revealed the future
between Israel and Assyria. \\See 2010Notes on "Jonah 1:1"\\
3. Jonah decided the judgment of disobedience was worth the pleasure of
harboring hatred.
a. \\#Hebrews 10:26-31\\
b. \\#Hebrews 12:29; Ps 50:22; 76:7\\
C. \\#Jonah 1:4-2:10\\ The Hand of God
1. \\#1:4\\ "But the Lord" - God did several things to hinder Jonah’s
flight.
a. "sent out a great wind into the sea" - No doubt, this wind blew
contrary to the ship’s course.
b. "a mighty tempest" - Then God sent a storm.
c. "so that the ship was like to be broken" - The end result was
ship and crew were in mortal nature.
d. God was not punishing Jonah but accomplishing His will.
a. God’s will for His children shall be accomplished.
\\#Romans 8:29-30; Eph 1:4-6, 9-12\\
b. The New Testament teaches that God will chasten His children to
place them on the right track but that punishment was poured
out on Christ. \\#Romans 8:1; 1Co 11:32; He 12:6-8\\
2. \\#1:5\\ "But Jonah…lay…fast asleep" - Jonah’s reaction
demonstrated that:
a. Jonah didn’t care if he died.
b. Jonah knew that he was abusing the grace of God \\#Jonah 4:2\\.
c. Jonah did not care if the mariners suffered or even died.
3. \\#1:5-16\\ The mariners labor - They worked harder to save Jonah
than Jonah worked to save himself.
a. \\#1:5\\ "…cried every man unto his god…." - Their religious
efforts failed.
b. \\#1:7-12\\ "Why hast thou done this?" - Their intellectual
efforts failed.
c. \\#1:13\\ "…the men rowed hard…." - Their human efforts failed.
d. \\#1:11-16\\ So in desperation, they threw Jonah overboard.
4. \\#1:12\\ "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea…"
Note the hardness of Jonah’s heart.
5. \\#1:17\\ "The Lord had prepared a great fish…."
a. The word used in Jonah is typically a fish \\#1:17\\.
b. \\#Matt 12:40\\ The Lord called it a whale.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth.
(1) There the word could mean anything from a "huge fish" to
the mammal which is normally considered a "whale."
(2) There is debate as to whether this creature was a fish or
a whale.
(a) A whale is a mammal which breathes air but can stay
under the water for long periods of time.
(b) A fish extracts its oxygen from the water.
(3) Although critics cast down on the book of Jonah because
of him being swallowed by a "fish" and being spit out
alive, there have been documented accounts of men
swallowed by a whale shark and later found alive.
Walvoord, J. F., Zuck, R. B., & Dallas Theological Seminary. (1983-c1985).
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An exposition of the scriptures (1:1462-1463).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books. Libronix electronic version
c. Regardless, the Bible says "the Lord had prepared" this animal
\\#1:17\\ so it was well capable of doing what God wanted it
to do.
6. \\#1:17\\ "Jonah was in the belly of the fish three
days and three nights." Here is the great type of this
book \\#Mt 12:39-41; Luke 11:29-30\\.
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