Fwd: Book of JonaH

--- In WTC-Terrorism <at> y..., "prosemont" <prosemont <at> y...> wrote:
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their 
wickedness has come up before me."

The city of Neineveh was in Irag! Why is the Lord concerned with the 
beleifs of non-Jews? I thought the Lord, as Jesus, told Paul to 
spread the word of God amongst the gentiles? Paul travels by boat 
over most of the Mediteranean Sea, like Jonah did, for Jonah fled to 
Tarshish to avoid bringing the word of God - to any enemy of Israel?
Does not compute!

Tarshish was a Pheonucian city located in Spain. Iraq is landlocked 
from the Med Sea, and thus, is this story reversed? Did the whale 
take Jonah to Tarshish, and spit him out there, on the coast of 
Spain, where there was a Jewish people long estranged from the nation 
of Israel, they living amongst the Phoenucians, who are related to 
the Jews.

"Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrafice 
unto the Lord and made VOWS."

These vows were made by the men aboard the Phoenucian vessel, who had 
cast Jonah overboard to calm the raging sea. When it became calm, 
they took the vow of the Nazarite. Consider Jesus walking on water, 
he too calming the turbilant sea, he calling his Disciples "Men of 
little faith." Are they kin to the men of Tarshish? 

Note, that everytime Jonah comes in contact with a group of people, 
on the way to save the group the Lord instructed, Jonah finds this 
group already saved, that is to say, they know the words and relgious 
customs of the Lord, each group performing a particular practice of 
honoring the Lord. This is the joke that the Lord played on Jonah 
that made him exceedingly mad, he knowing the Lord was a merciful 
Lord - even unto Strangers in a strange land? Nay, the Lord always 
knows the whereabouts of His sheep! And, He sent a Good shepherd to 
gather them together.

John Presco

Copyright 2002
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