The Book of Jonah, however, is written as a historical tale with a historical prophet mentioned in II Kings 14:25 and confirmed to have existed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:40-41. Christ here ...

The Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob. At length ...

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things that happened during biblical times and what is happening in our world today. For example, at my church we recently finished a ...

Still, although Simancas felt he had been swallowed, humpback whales have filter feeders which cannot completely eat someone ...

“Don’t you care that we perish?!” But my favorite is Jonah. The reluctant prophet of God wasn’t pushed off a dock into a placid lake, he was flung—chucked, hurled—by a terrified crew ...

Jonah the prophet is not happy when God instructs him to warn the people of Nineveh to change their wicked behavior, thinking Israel’s enemies should be punished for their misdeeds. To avoid ...

drew from the biblical story of Jonah to paint a picture of how sin can desensitize believers, like how the Old Testament prophet slept through the storm that threatened to sink the ship he was on.