Week 25: Amos-Haggai

Mia:  In Jonah chapter 3, Ninevah repents and is spared.  In the next chapter, the king of Ninevah declares that every man and beast shall wear a sackloth and not eat a thing so that God might show mercy on the city.  They really took Jonah’s prophecy seriously.  It’s almost like they completely new that they were doing evil and wrong all along.  Maybe they were just waiting for someone else to care, ’cause no one corrected them.

Ian:  A wise man taught me once to pay special attention to the text when it breaks from the pattern that you’ve come to expect.  Jonah, in the midst of the “Book of the Twelve,” ran away when the word of the Lord came to him–a different reaction when compare to the preceding Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah.  After reading about what God communicated through those guys, I find myself a little more sympathetic to Jonah.  I’d even say that I see myself in Jonah more than the rest of the Twelve.  Maybe we all do.  So maybe that’s why this book is highlighted the way it is.