July 16, 2023 - The Upside Down Mirror Series - "A Misunderstood Message"

Scripture Passage: Jonah 3

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The Upside Down Mirror

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A Second Chance (Pt. 1)
1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

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Translation Issues
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh

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Nineveh was how big?!
3 Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it

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Marathon

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A Misunderstood Message
4 Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
הָפַךְ (haphakh) - flipped over

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An Upside Down Message
5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

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A Second Chance (Pt. 2)
9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.

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Overturned by Mercy
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented