The Conversion Of Nineveh

Hi! and happy good mid-week to all of us, GUYS.  For our "daily bread" this Wednesday:

THE GOOD NEWS (17 February 2016)

"The word of YAHWEH  came to Jonah a second time.  'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and announce to them the message I give you.'

In obedience to the word of YAHWEH, Jonah went to Nineveh. It was a very large city, and it took three days just to cross it.  So Jonah walked a single day's journey and began proclaiming, 'Forty days more and Nineveh will be destroyed.' 

Jonah And Nineveh

The people of the city believed GOD.  They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

Upon hearing the news, the king of Nineveh got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth and sat down in ashes.  He issued a proclamation throughout Nineveh:

'By the decree of the king and his nobles, no people or beasts, herd or flock, will taste anything; neither will they eat nor drink.  But let people and beasts be covered with sackcloth.  Let everyone call aloud to GOD, turn from his evil ways and violence.  Who knows?  GOD may yet relent, turn from HIS fierce anger and spare us.'

When GOD saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, HE had compassion and did not carry out the destruction HE had threatened upon them." - Jonah 3:1-10 

(The Ninevites, being sinners, received no other divine sign than the coming of Jonah, who invited them to repent.  JESUS contemporaries believe they are "good" because they belong to the people of GOD, and they do not realize that the hour has come for them to repent as well.)

The Ancient City Of Nineveh