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No city has suffered like Jerusalem. It has known almost no peace. But there is very good news. God established Jerusalem to be a city of peace—and will one day make sure that it becomes so! It is actually the city from which God will rule the entire universe!
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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Unfortunately, even my own Christian sister thinks that the whale swallowing Jonah was only figurative. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. It was big enough to swallow Jonah and keep him in its belly for 3 days and 3 nights. More contemporary examples of this actually happening to a man can be cited. Whether the story of Jonah is literal or not does not detract from the spiritual significance of the story.
If the account actually happened, yes, there would be a fantastic event to go along with the story but God would be seen as going to extremes at the expense of one of His children. However, if the story of Jonah is an allegory, the story is not diminished in any way. In fact, the story is enhanced since God would not be seen as actually putting someone through that harrowing experience.
The same thing can be said of Job. The most important factor in the story of Jonah is the concept of grace and mercy. In Jonah Chapter 2, Jonah prays a prayer incredibly similar to that which Solomon prayed in 2 Chronicles 6. In that prayer, Solomon is asking for mercy. He asks the Lord to be merciful when Israel sins in the future. Note verses In these verses, Solomon requests that when Israel sins to such a degree that God will carry them away from Israel to a foreign land, that if the people would then turn toward the land and toward the temple and asks once again for mercy, then God forgive their sin.
In the next chapter 2 Chronicles 7 : God tells Solomon that He has heard his prayer of mercy and now has selected the temple as a house of sacrifice; not animal sacrifice but a sacrifice of prayer.
Here is 2 Chronicles Jonah is applying the same truth to himself. He is acknowledging his sin of disobedience of refusing to go to Ninevah and that he has now been carried off to a foreign place far from Israel. He acknowledges that God has made the temple a house of sacrifice, a sacrifice of prayer. Salvation is of the Lord.
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