In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and unpleasant, namely, go preach to the Ninevites, the mortal enemies of the Israelites. However, God did not give up on Jonah, or, as we shall see, on the Ninevites, or on us.
Prayer is the element that activates all the other pieces of the armor of God.
The construction of the tabernacle foreshadowed greater dwellings of God, which he keeps building by plundering the nations.
Irony occurs when a situation turns out to be the opposite of what is expected. Dramatic irony is when the author and the audience...