Today, I am reading and commenting on Jonah 1-4 and Micah 1-2.

When God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach against it, Jonah instead went in the opposite direction.  Later, after the people of Nineveh repented and God relented of bringing the destruction which He had threatened, Jonah explained that he had headed for Tarshish because he did not want God to relent.  Jonah knew that the wickedness of the people of Nineveh would provoke God’s wrath and did not want to warn them because he wanted them to experience God’s wrath.  As a result, he fled and God brought him into the belly of a fish, where he cried out to God.  We need to take a lesson from Jonah and be sure that we do not strive to flee from going to those whom God has called us.  Let us not refuse to say to our enemies and to those who turn away from God’s love for them that salvation comes from the Lord.  Jonah knew that if the people of Nineveh heard God’s message they might turn to God and that if they did God would relent.  We should have the same confidence, but we should also have God’s love for them so that we do not turn from preaching God’s message.

Which brings me to the beginning of Micah’s message.  Micah speaks out against those who plan and plot evil.  He warns them that God is going to bring a disaster upon them that they will be unable to save themselves from.  Micah was prophesying against the people of Israel and Judah.  Unlike the people of Nineveh to whom Jonah prophesied, the prophets of Israel and Judah, who should have been speaking similar words to those of Micah, told him not to prophesy.  Let us be more like the Ninevites than the false prophets of Israel.  Let us turn from our sins and encourage our fellows to do likewise, rather than claim that God will bless us in our sins.

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