The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Mission in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Mission as Jonah having uncomfortable meetings for Morning Manna of the
Sabbath School Lesson Mission”.
The Opening Hymn
will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."
The Sabbath School
Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on pages 61.
The SSnet.org site
allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your
own language to see God speaking also to your heart.
Why do you not
click on this now?
https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ423_05.pdf
---Jo-Ann Davidson wrote the Sabbath School
Quarterly on Jonah in 2003. ---She actually spelled out something in detail
in the final chapter that she did not say in the beginning. It is no error
to her great work. She said about the content of the book: It is about God not
Jonah. It made me think the following lines. ---The Book of Jonah has the wrongname. It
is about God not about Jonah. ---Jonah is in the foreground but God is in
the background in heaven. ---Jonah’s picture is small and tragic but
God’s picture is great, gracious and glorious. ---Although the camera is on God, Jonah kept
coming in the way. ---Ever had that problem with a family
picture and a dog keep coming in the way? ---The War annals of the Assyrians did not
look good for any foreigner. ---Those who analyzed the iconography of the
Assyrians will know that it does not look good. ---It looks like a slaughterhouse for
animals not for people. Iconography of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages
and their persecution, Indian treatment pictures and the Assyrian iconography
had something in common: Satan’s designs of disasters and tragedies. ---So, having people treated this way lead
the enemies to wish the similar rebounce of the same acts on their heads.
Boomerang wishes. ---So Jonah wished a boomerang wish: May
they burn like Sodom and Gemorrah! ---Like Nebuchadnezzar later, he wanted to
have a good view of how they burn. ---Jephet ibn Ali Halevi was a ninth
century BC literal translator of the Hebrew and Aramaic of Daniel into Arabic. ---He said that Nebuchadnezar built himself
a high tower from where he could see into the oven. ---The other favorite Jew of Judaism or more
favorite, is Saadya Gaon. He also wrote a commentary on Daniel in the same
time. Problem? He is not so literal truthful to the text as Halevi. He is more
paraphrastic. ---If you find Jacques Doukhan to be
symbolical or allegorical in his commentaries on the Bible it is because he
wrote his doctoral on Saadya Gaon. But not necessarily. It only helps to
explain. ---But know God. The Trinity decided to
create. Christ was asked to but on behalf of all three because all three are
called creators. ---God the Father loved the world so much He
gave His only Son to die. The Son loved so much that He willingly gave His
life. The Holy Spirit loves so much that He is willing to give heaven up and
stay on earth for 6000+ years to help sinners transform to saved ones. ---So where does Jonah’s wish fit into all this?
Burning of enemies oven style. ---Who needed salvation? ---Jonah. Not the people of Niniveh. ---What about you?