JONAH AND NAHUM
JONAH AND NAHUM
6 Lessons by Suzie Klein
“I know that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm” (Jonah 4:2b). “The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked” (Nahum 1:3).
Nineveh was both the greatest and most wicked Assyrian city of Jonah’s day. But God called him to go there and preach a message concerning their sin and God’s wrath. Although Jonah chose to disobey God and run in the opposite direction, to God it was just a detour that ultimately led Jonah to comply with His command. The result was that Nineveh repented and was saved from destruction. But the city of Nineveh does not exist today. From 612 B.C. until 1846 there was not a trace to be found. The prophet Nahum explains why