What Jonah Didn’t Say: Yeshua in the Prophets

When the word of the LORD came to Jonah, the instruction for a prophet was clear: Go to the great city of Nineveh and cry out against its wickedness. Fifty years before Assyria would capture the last part of Israel’s northern kingdom, the LORD was sending a warning of certain doom to its capital. Before taking action, the slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness God of Israel was giving these people a chance to repent. It’s exactly what we would expect from the God of our salvation, but Jonah wanted no part of it.