So, this last chapter of Jonah gives us some insight into the first chapter of Jonah, right? We get a better idea of the personality of Jonah. Why he was stubborn to not do what God had asked him to do. We understand this a little bit better now, don't we? And so, we see that Jonah doesn't like that the Ninevites are repenting. He doesn't like that God is not going to pour out his anger on them, that they will not receive his wrath. Remember, he would have seen them as outsiders.

This chapter of Jonah is really an amazing one, isn't it? Can you imagine a prophet walking through, telling people to repent and people believing it and turning from their sin and fasting and putting on sackcloth? We can't imagine that because we don't know what it looks like, but you understand what I'm saying. Can you imagine people turning from their sin and mass? People turning and repenting and believing God about their sin.

The book of Jonah is a book that I always like to go back to. I think maybe you probably feel some of the same things. It's one of those Bible stories that you know it really well, from having a working knowledge of it to having it be a Sunday school classic, and you come to it, and you learn something because you realize that, Oh, there's this detail that I missed because I was so busy glossing over certain things because I thought I knew it all already.

Here we find ourselves in the very familiar story of Jonah. This is a Sunday school favorite. We see in this story things that we know, but there are some important things that we can learn from this story, even though it's one that we know so well. We see here that Jonah receives the word of the Lord. Jonah is a prophet. He knows that this is God speaking to him.