Jonah 1:17 KJV
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Even the most casual reader of this chapter is struck with the working of God in it.
• Jonah hears a call from God
• Jonah is in a storm of God's causing
• Jonah receives the short end if the lot
• Jonah's storm ceases when he us cast overboard
• Jonah is swallowed by a fish made just for him
There is nothing in this chapter that is possible except an all powerful and very concerned God is involved.
And that has been the rub all along. Man refuses to accept such a God. In light of this controversy Scofield has an appropriate note;
"No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 12:39); (Matthew 12:40). Science, "falsely so called" (1Timothy 6:20) failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse (Genesis 3:17-19) is intolerant of miracles. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of divine love, interposing God in a physically and morally disordered universe. (Romans 8:19-23)."
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Even the most casual reader of this chapter is struck with the working of God in it.
• Jonah hears a call from God
• Jonah is in a storm of God's causing
• Jonah receives the short end if the lot
• Jonah's storm ceases when he us cast overboard
• Jonah is swallowed by a fish made just for him
There is nothing in this chapter that is possible except an all powerful and very concerned God is involved.
And that has been the rub all along. Man refuses to accept such a God. In light of this controversy Scofield has an appropriate note;
"No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 12:39); (Matthew 12:40). Science, "falsely so called" (1Timothy 6:20) failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse (Genesis 3:17-19) is intolerant of miracles. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of divine love, interposing God in a physically and morally disordered universe. (Romans 8:19-23)."
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