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The Amazing Jonah Part 1: Running From Your Life

Exploring My Strange Bible

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Jonah's Ultimate Aim Is to Flee From the Set to the Beginning and Right at the End

Jonah is the only prophet in the Bible who runs away from God. He's this upstanding religious man of God, so we think. But yet he's actually running furthest from God than any other character in the story. Why? Why does he do this? And why do you think? I mean, Nineveh is in the habit of skinning people when it conquers a city. This would be like parachuting into Berlin or Munich during World War II and saying "You don't just carry down with that Third Reich"

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