Serving the Lord in Leytonstone, London
It is sometimes said that God cannot be both all-good and all-powerful because if He was there would be no evil. So either He’s in favour of evil, or He can’t do anything about it. This passage shows Jeremiah wrestling with a version of that dilemma
Hebrews addresses Jewish Christians who ought to be teaching their fellow Jews in Jerusalem all about Christ’s fulfilment of the Old Testament.
Through this short story, Jonah has shown himself unwilling to accept God on His own terms.
Jonah has survived a terrible threat of death twice: once in the sea, and once in Assyria.