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.
Christian thinking is thinking like Jesus, especially as seen in his becoming one of us to die on the cross.
In this section of Daniel, there is the clearest declaration in the Old Testament of the resurrection and eternal life.
In Stephen's speech before the Jewish Council, he gave a master class on the meaning of Old Testament history, which culminated in Jesus.
