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? ---Call the pastor nearest to you. When? Immediately. No delay.