Jonah Final Project

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by Megan Baumann1 view·Updated Apr 27, 2021
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  1. Jonah is ending, Jonah is angry for the Lord's compassion
  2. for the people in Nevada.
  3. The ending of the book of Jonah sequential with a
  4. touch of flashback elements, Jonah is talking about how he
  5. rather die than show compassion for the people in advance.
  6. He has shown the want to die throughout his book
  7. when he requested to be thrown off of the ship
  8. into the angry seat.
  9. Once he was set for you from the great fish,
  10. Jonah makes himself a shelter to Washington via from afar.
  11. God sends him a plan to provide shade for him.
  12. In the meantime, however, he also sends a worm to
  13. eat the plant overnight so it will die and then
  14. Jonah would be stuck in the heat where he wishes
  15. to die.
  16. Yet again.
  17. God tries to explain to him that he did not
  18. tend to the plant.
  19. Therefore it died.
  20. He relates is to the city where he says that
  21. they needed help as they do not know what is
  22. right and wrong that they need to be taken care
  23. of just like his plant needed to be taken care
  24. of God gave Jonah the task in the beginning to
  25. share his word with the people in India.
  26. They needed his needed help in salvation, which Jonah has
  27. experienced time and time again, right?
  28. Yeah, Jonas abrupt ending, Jonah ends his book suddenly and
  29. we are left with so many questions.
  30. It follows the book of Obadiah, the shortest book in
  31. the old testament which is compromised are comprised of a
  32. diatribe against freedom.
  33. The second book after Jonah is not home.
  34. Another die attract this one is against Namibia, the very
  35. city that yeah, we mercifully spared and because of that
  36. dysfunctional ending, we cannot move right into Michael without experience
  37. some of the tension, Jonah was stubborn and I think
  38. he had a small, I think that has a small
  39. part of why he ended it.
  40. Like he did a few personal guesses as to why
  41. maybe he admits to God that he is right and
  42. that he should spare the city or that he does
  43. not want to show his audience his weaknesses.
  44. Jonah knows the power of God and he plays the
  45. runaway prophet who is stubborn and arrogant.
  46. But if it was a show, what if it was
  47. a show for his audience?
  48. This is just speculation.
  49. Of course I said before we are left with so
  50. many questions and not a lot of answers.
  51. I believe he wanted it that way and he wanted
  52. to leave us with these questions to form our own
  53. answers and reasonings.
  54. How does your answer impact your interpretation of Jonah.
  55. As I said before, Jonah wanted to end his story
  56. with everyone asking questions almost as a way of not
  57. being forgotten or purposely leaving us wanting a proper conclusion,
  58. Jonah as a person was not that great.
  59. He constantly refused to follow what God set out for
  60. him to do.
  61. He was always, he always complained about everything and he
  62. was very arrogant.
  63. His story, however, has a lot of good lessons to
  64. be learned.
  65. Jonah is a book written two Good people.
  66. It is a warning that those of us who are
  67. willing to spend our lives serving the Lord can also
  68. be the most prone to forget the very nature of
  69. the Lord.
  70. After years and years of service, we start to forget
  71. just how much we need.
  72. God. We find ourselves just like Jonah sitting in our
  73. safety zone, looking down on the sinful city of place,
  74. desperately in need of God and complaining when we lose
  75. a creature comfort.
  76. Mr Stoneman explains it best for me, Jonah shows us
  77. the compassion and mercy that God gives.
  78. Um He is forever for giving and a God of
  79. 2nd chances.
  80. How do you think his audience reacted to the ending
  81. and how do we react to it today?
  82. I think Jonas audience, we reacted in a similar way
  83. as we do today.
  84. The record recurring theme of unanswered questions leaves us feeling
  85. like we have no closure on his story, Jonas audience
  86. went through a roller coaster of emotions and events with
  87. him and are left with nothing.
  88. In the end, his audience probably felt angry with him
  89. and his decisions to end this story so abruptly.
  90. Currently we react with confusion or find ourselves speculating on
  91. why he ended things without answers.
  92. We are also lived with God having the final word
  93. and showing Jonah that he is still merciful and has
  94. to take care of those who may not know the
  95. right path to follow, Jonah.
  96. And God wanted us to think about his story and
  97. the meaning behind everything that has happened.
  98. Jonah never answered open ending.
  99. Okay, Jonah never answered the open ended question.
  100. But the very openness demands that the audience addressed the
  101. issue Jonah, essentially in modern terms, left us on red
  102. and full of wonder.
  103. And these are the sources that I use for my
  104. project. Thank you.