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Jonah and the Whale (Jonas et la Baleine)

Artist: Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789)

Date: 1753

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France

Summary

God calls Jonah to be a prophet to the wicked city Nineveh, but Jonah flees across the sea in the opposite direction. When God sends a storm to threaten the ship, the sailors and Jonah dialogue about Jonah’s identity and his purpose on the journey. They learn that he is fleeing from God. The sailors attempt to escape from the storm, but eventually the prophet is thrown overboard. God sends a large fish to rescue Jonah, and, in the fish’s belly, Jonah sings a song of thanks. The fish spits Jonah up on dry land, and God calls Jonah to go to Nineveh a second time. Jonah goes to Nineveh, preaches a short sermon, and the whole city repents. The king of Nineveh issues a decree that all people and animals turn from their evil ways. Jonah becomes angry at this outcome and admits to God that the reason he had fled in the first place was that he had known that God would be merciful to the city. Jonah had wanted the city destroyed. God then uses a plant to try to teach Jonah that God loves all creatures, but Jonah remains angry. The story ends with God’s question to Jonah about God’s concern for Nineveh.

Passages

2 Kings 22:8-23:27 – Huldah the Prophetess

Jonah 1:1-3 – The Call to Nineveh

Jonah 1:17 – The Great Fish

Jonah 4:1-8 – The Mercy of God

Jonah 4:9-11 – A Final Question

Source: Enter the Bible

My wife says she’s not a Bible verse in the bio kind of person, but that if she were, she’d pick Jonah 4:9

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Prophet Jonah, lunette fresco in the Cybo-Soderini Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo by Pieter van Lint, c. 1636.

Inscription on the tablet: "Pick me up and throw me into the sea".

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Profeta Jonás/Jonah y su historia, incluida en toda biblia: un día Dios le ordenó ir a Nínive a predicar la palabra y advertirles de su destrucción inminente. Jonás no quiere y se va en un barco hacia el Tarsis, pero Dios en retaliación provoca una tormeta vuelva barcos. Los marineros arrojan a Jonás por la borda, y un gran pez (ballena) se lo traga. Adentro de esa situación, Jonás se arrepiente y pide perdón a Dios, quien hace a la ballena vomitarlo y dejarlo libre. Jonás entonces va a Nínive a hacer que se arrepientan de su maldad y salva a ese pueblo de la destrucción.

No confundir con Job, al que Dios le hace infinitos retos y desgracias para demostrarle a Satanàs que es un hombre fiel. Weird story.

Pues bien, HERMOSAS BALLENAS

We celebrate the memory of Your prophet Jonah, O Lord; through him we entreat You, save our souls.

The Holy Prophet Jonah lived in the eighth century before the birth of Christ and was a successor of the Prophet Elisha. The Book of the Prophet Jonah contains prophecies about the judgments on the Israelite nation, the sufferings of the Savior, the downfall of Jerusalem, and the end of the world. Besides the prophecies, the Book of Jonah relates how he was sent to the Ninevites to preach repentance (Jon. 3: 3-10).

Our Lord Jesus Christ, addressing the Scribes and the Pharisees who demanded a sign from Him, said that no sign would be given except for the sign of the Prophet Jonah, “As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so also shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights” (Mt. 12: 40). From these words the Lord shows clearly the symbolic meaning of the Book of the Prophet Jonah in relation to Christ’s death on the Cross, descent into Hell, and the Resurrection.

Reproaching the lack of penitence and recalcitrance of the Jews, the Lord said, “The Ninevites shall rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and one greater than Jonah is here” (Mt. 12: 41).

Enlightened by the Spirit, your pure heart became the dwelling place of most splendid prophecy; for you saw things far off as if they were near. Therefore, we honor you, blessed and glorious Prophet Jonah

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In the darkest moment in Yunus (as) life he remembered and turned to Allah (swt), he realized His oneness and exalted him. In a vulnerable and desperate position, he becomes closer to Allah, and Allah (swt) responded to his call and freed Yunus. In the Quran Allah says, “Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil and makes you inheritors of the earth? Is there a deity with Allah ? Little do you remember.” (27:62)

A repeated narrative in the Qur’an that’s very clear is that cultures continually fall into disarray. It’s the natural progression of systems to increase in entropy or disorder as time goes on. The famous Will Durant quote, “A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”. (Epicureanism is a philosophy that seeking pleasure should be the number one priority for living the “good life”)

The story of Yunus (as) is the same but what is an individual to do being born into a corrupted state? If you do nothing, it will remain corrupt, if you give in, it will remain corrupt. The answer has to be to oppose corruption. Allah (swt) had sent Yunus (as) to guide the lost community of Nineveh, now Northern-Iraq.

Yunus (as) tried to show them the foolishness in idolatry and destructive path they were on. But they ignored him. Yunus (as) decided himself that they were beyond saving and his efforts would be appreciated elsewhere, so he left. Yunus (as) denied his responsibility without Allah’s consent and sailed away. Allah (swt) sent a storm for Yunus (as) because he could not deny his destiny – he would need to reconcile and repent. A whale came to the surface and swallowed Yunus (AS) who was thrown overboard and took him into deep waters where he was engulfed into three layers of darkness – the night, the sea, and inside the belly of the whale. Here he recited this du’a for forgiveness.

Be Merciful (Jonah 4:1-11)

Do you have a right to be angry?

Jonah was really upset and angry. So he prayed: Our Lord, I knew from the very beginning that you wouldn’t destroy Nineveh. That’s why I left my own country and headed for Spain. You are a kind and merciful God, and you are very patient. You always show love, and you don’t like to punish anyone. Now let me die! I’d be better off dead. The Lord replied, “What right do you have to be…