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

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