NEWS FLASH: FISH EATS MAN

Obediah and Jonah are both minor prophets. Jonah is the most readable of all of them. It is a historical narrative of which we are all familiar with his story.

Obediah was God's messenger who announced the doom of the Edomites which are descendants of Esau. The descendants of Esau gloried over the downfall of Judah. Obediah also prophesied that the Jews once again would rule over the land that David had formally controlled.

Jonah did not want to go to Ninevah as God had ordered him to do. Instead, he boarded a ship going to Tarshish. The Lord sent a great wind out to sea and the people aboard thought that they would all die. Jonah admitted what he done and was thrown overboard where he was swallowed by a great fish. After three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, Jonah decided to do as God told him to do. The fish then vomited him upon dry land and he went to Ninevah.

Jonah's story tells us two things: First Jesus tells us in Matthew 12:40,41;
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in
judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because
they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold a greater
Jonas is here.
Secondly: We see through all the minor prophets that when we disobey God's will we will be punished for it; but when we repent and do God's will we will be rewarded for it.

There may be times we are called upon to do something that is displeasing to us but if we do God's bidding good things will happen. My prayer is that my eyes will be opened to what God wants from me and that my heart and mind will be willing to do
whatever He requires of me.