Jonah and Micah - Come Follow Me with Sam

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Jonah

The normal story of jonah goes something like this - Jonah was commanded by God to do something, but he didn't so he got swallowed by a whale so he repented and did what God wanted, the end. If we are lucky, we get that bit at the end where Jonah is angry that God delivered the people and God basically showed him that he was under God's mercy just like the others.

Jonah is a story with many layers. I like to start by looking at its chiasm form, the apex of which is reached at the end of Jonah 3

8 They that observe alying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have avowed. bSalvation is of the Lord.

Jonah is speaking for himself as much as he for the people. He mentions the temple multiple times.

For the second portion, Jonah's experience with the gourd leaf and the worm, I like to flip it around. Not focus on Jonah as much and focus more on what God is saying about this people. 

11 And should not I aspare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand bpersons that cannot cdiscern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?


Micah

Micah is unique in that he quotes Isaiah and gives other prophecies directly around the savior's birth

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