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decides that Jonah's leadership is less evolved than He thought. God concludes that Jonah is in need of some serious leadership development. And so, a whale rises from the ocean and swallows him. Jonah is now riding the Descending Current. He has to go into the deep and the dark to find his light. Jonah probably does not know this. All he knows is

Second, God’s mercy to (1) send a prophet to warn the Ninevites of the impending judgment upon them and (2) delay his judgment for forty days (plus the three days it took for Jonah to travel throughout the city and preach) makes no sense unless God was extending an opportunity for them to change.

His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 14He did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

emerges. We are not sure what happens for Jonah in the belly of the whale, but we suggest that he is riding both currents of transformation.

God’s ‘tender mercies are on all His works’ (Ps. 145:9). Neither justice nor repentance, sin nor restitution, has ethnic or religious boundaries. The people of Nineveh are God’s creatures no less than others. That is what the book of Jonah is about.

Job 41 [147] “Can you draw out Leviathan[148] with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3 Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you? 4 Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever? 5 Will you play with it as with a