![]() Since we interpret Scripture by other Scriptures, and since our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ told the book of Jonah as history ( Matthew 12:39-41), so must we. Long strands of briny seaweed wrapped around Jonah’s neck and the distinct rankness of a creature’s stomach acid digesting the prophet would remain with Jonah for the rest of his life. He would have very likely carried PTSD and claustrophobia with him for the rest of his life. Liberal scholars might dismiss the story of Jonah’s prayer time in a fish belly as riotous rabbinical storytelling, but Jonah would surely protest. Those who hold Jonah as a mythological yarn seek to strengthen their unbelieving position by adding disbelief in a fish swallowing Jonah and, then, spitting the reluctant revivalist onto the shore. The book of Jonah is often characterized by liberal theologians as a metaphorical story to teach Israel to be more open to others. In the north of modern-day Iraq, next to the city of Mosul, the remains of Nineveh, stand as testimony to the historicity of the story in Jonah. ![]() So great was this monumental world capital that considerable remnants of Nineveh remain to this day. The minor prophet, Jonah, takes place when Nineveh, “that great city,” was the largest city on the face of the earth. God does not want us to forget the lessons of the book of Jonah, nor the destiny of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. Rudyard Kipling, the great English poet of the first part of the 20th century, considered the strengths and influence of the British Empire but warned his fellow subjects of the crown that empires are fleeting.
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