The Amazing Jonah Part 1: Running From Your Life
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Word of the Lord Comes to Jonah
The book of Jonah is God's word to his people through a story about a prophet. In the Bible prophets doesn't mean fortune teller or something like that. The most basic definition and role of prophets in the Bible is to speak on God's behalf. And so we turn back to the book of Jonah and we read the first sentence: "The word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amata" This is how all the books of the prophets begin; Abadiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah start with Micah.
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