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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

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.