{"id":1268,"date":"2021-08-18T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:24:11","slug":"lesson-6-jonah-the-reluctant-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/18\/lesson-6-jonah-the-reluctant-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 6: Jonah:  The Reluctant Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. <\/strong>\u2014Titus 2:11<strong><br> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read today\u2019s key verse. Use the following\ndefinitions help you understand it: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>grace:<\/strong> the divine influence upon the heart;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>appeared:<\/strong> become visible; able to be known.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Today we are going to study a prophet that God\nsent to a Gentile nation (they were not Israelites, God\u2019s chosen people). God\nmakes His salvation known to all who need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emphasis: <\/strong>Be encouraged to <strong><em>know<\/em><\/strong> where God wants you to be, and\nto <strong><em>be<\/em><\/strong>\nwhere God wants you to be. Also, to be a faithful witness wherever you may\nbe.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Summary: <\/strong>As we continue studying the Historical Books, we\nwill intermittently study a book of the Prophets as close to the timeframe in\nhistory we are studying as we can. We have learned of the deplorable condition\nof the nation Israel\nas they only had bad kings. None of them led the nation in reformation back to\nthe one, true God. We have remembered two very influential prophets of the\nLord, Elijah and Elisha. Today we will look at another prophet, Jonah. Unlike\nElijah and Elisha who spoke the Word of the Lord to the people of Israel,\nGod sent Jonah to a nation that was the enemy of Israel.\nKing Joash (Jehoash) was the last king in Israel\nof which we read (we will continue with his reign in Lesson 8). Jonah came upon\nthe scene after King Joash (Jehoash) and during the reign of the next king of Israel,\nJeroboam II (who we will study in Lesson 8 \u2014 see 2 Kings 14:23, 25). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonah is a book in the Bible that is very familiar. One in which many people could probably relate without even having to go back and reread the book of Jonah. With that thought in mind if you are teaching a group, prepare to teach your students something about Jonah they may have never considered before. Be encouraged to never become so familiar with an account in the Bible that you don\u2019t want to \u201chear it again.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understand and know that the events that transpired in Jonah really happened. Jesus even compared Himself to the prophet Jonah (called Jonas in the Greek). \u201c39. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale&#8217;s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41. 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 than Jonas <em>is<\/em> here\u201d (Matthew 12:39\u201341). Proof enough to anyone that Jonah was a real prophet who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a whale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-Questions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Year Two Quarter One - Lesson 6 Questions (opens in a new tab)\">Year Two Quarter One &#8211; Lesson 6 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-Childrens-Worksheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Year Two Quarter One - Lesson 6 Children's Worksheets (opens in a new tab)\">Year Two Quarter One &#8211; Lesson 6 Children&#8217;s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Y2Q1-Lesson-6-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> There are many options to show the events from the book of Jonah. I had extra stickers from other projects and made my own picture to remember what happened to Jonah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. \u2014Titus 2:11 Key Verse Thought: Read today\u2019s key verse. Use the following definitions help you understand it: &nbsp;Today we are going to study a prophet that God sent to a Gentile nation (they were not Israelites, God\u2019s chosen people). 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