Lesson on Teshuvah, Hashem have mercy to the goyim & one cannot run away from Hashem
1:1 Now Dvar YHWH (יהוה) came unto Yonah Ben Amittai, saying:
1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
1:3 But Yonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of YHWH (יהוה), and went down to Yofa (Joppa); and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of YHWH (יהוה).
1:4
But YHWH (יהוה) sent out a great wind
into the sea, and there
was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to
be broken.
1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and kara (קרא cried) every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Yonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep
In contrast withY Mattityahu 8:23-27; Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25, Yeshua has authority over wind and sea
1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy Elohim (אלהים), if so be that Elohim (אלהים) will think upon us, that we perish not.
1:7 And they said every one to his fellow,
Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us.
So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Yonah.
1:8 Then said they unto him:
"Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil [is] upon us;
What [is] thine occupation? and
Whence comest thou?
What [is] thy country? and
of what people
[art] thou?
1:9 And he said unto them:
I [am] an Hebrew; and
I fear YHWH (יהוה), Elohim (אלהים) Shamayim,
which hath made the sea and the dry [land].
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of YHWH (יהוה), because he had told them.
1:11 Then said they unto him:
"What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
1:12 And he said unto them:
"Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest [is] upon you.
1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
1:14 Wherefore they kara (קרא cried) unto YHWH (יהוה), and said:
"We beseech thee,
O YHWH (יהוה),
we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou,
O YHWH (יהוה),
hast done as it pleased thee.
1:15 So they took up Yonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
1:16 Then the men feared YHWH (יהוה) exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto YHWH (יהוה), and made vows.
1:17 Now YHWH (יהוה) had *prepared a great fish to swallow up Yonah. And YYonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.Y
Author : Yonah Ben Amittai
Theme: Hashem is Merciful and forgiving
Date of writing: 8th Century B.C
Total number of verse 17+10+10+11=48 verse
Background:
Melekhim Bet 14:25 He restored the boundary of Yisrael from the entrance of Chamat unto the yam of the Aravah, according to the Devar YHWH Elohei Yisrael, which He spoke by the hand of His servant ha Navi Yonah Ben Amittai, who was of Gat HaChefer.
Gat HaChefer. ("winepress of the pit) (the Inheritance for Zevulun)
The Story of Yonah or Jonah was featured in the Apostolic writings also in the Koran (Quran) Yonah was a Navi Yisrael who lived about the time of Yerovoam II (2 Kings 14:25, His name means Dove. Having a character of a chauvinist. Sefer Yonah is full of the supernatural, aside from the great fish, there are the vine, the worm and the east wind, and greatest of all, the repentance of the entire city of Nineveh. Yonah's character and Hashem's dealing with him foreshadow the subsequent history of the nation of Yisrael. but miraculously to the nations (Zekaryahu 8:7-23). Yonah typifies Moshiach as the Shaliach meaning the send one, raised from the dead and carrying salvation to the Goyim.
Outline
The Disobedience and Flight of Yonah - 1:1-11
a. Introduction - 1:1
b. Yonah flee from Adonay 1:2-11
1. Hashem's commission -1:2
2. Yonah's Disobedience - 1:3
Yonah and the great fish - 1:12-2:10
a. Yonah swallowed by the fish - 1:12-17
b. Yonah's tefillah - 2:1-9
c. Adonay's Answer - 2:10
The Greatest Revival in history - 3:1-10
a. Yonah's Obedience - 3:1-10
b. Nineveh's make Teshuvah - 3:4-10
The wideness of Hashem's Mercy - 4:1-11
a. Yonah's displeasure - 4:1-3
b. Yonah's rebuked by Adonay - 4:4-11
The language spoken in Nineveh is known as Ashurit (Hebrew "Ktav Ashuri," or Ashurai writing.) The Ashurai are the people of Mesopotamia, or as the land is called in the Ashurai language, Bet Nahrein. They had three capitals, Ashur, Nimrud and Nineveh. The last capital fell in 612 BC. The Ashurai people's ancient Aramaic language is the key to understanding the Scriptures.
Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins (36°22'N 43°09'E), Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris River and the Khosr River within an 1800-acre (730 ha) area circumscribed by a seven and one-half mile (12 km) brick-rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlped in parts by the city of Mosul. Situated at the confluence of the Tigris and Khosr, Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris. Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient citiesPictures of Ruin ancient Nineveh
Kingdom of the East see powerpoint presentation
Yofa (Joppa, modern day Jaffa)- the place of Kefa's vision Acts 9:36, 43
Tarshish - probably in Spain The Septuagent, the Greek version of the Tenakh, translated Tarshish as "Carthage" though at that time "Carthage" (in Tunis, North Africa) also ruled over the former areas of Tarshish in Spain:
Tehillim 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Tehillim 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
*Manah מנה - prepared, to count, assign, to detail (mil) number, reckon appoint, destine, muster, number, (1:17;4:6-8; Tehillim 147:4) By preparing the fish, Hashem made sure that Yonah's mission was not left to chance. Hashem exercised sovereignty not over nature, plants and animals but also over Yonah's life, using animals as small as worm to teach Yonah about His great mercy (Yonah 4:6-8)
Y MattitYahu 12:40 for just as YONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will Ha BEN ADAM be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Y MattitYahu 16:4 "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Yonah." And He left them and went away.
Y Luke 11:30 "For just as Yonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the BEN ADAM be to this generation.