Title: God's Rebuke for Jonah/4:5-11
Content 4 Jang Kanghae
Title: God's Rebuke for Jonah
Text:4:5-11
Knowing what God's kindness and mercy are like
Here, in the form of an actual vine, God shows the extent of His mercy and mercy.
This shows God's attitude, pointing out that Jonah's attitude toward Nineveh was broken.
1, there is Jonah's action
“Jonah went out of the city and sat down on the east side of the city.”
This is like what happened after knowing that God would save Nineveh
After 40 days and nights passed and nothing changed, Jonah 1, went out of the city, 2, sat on the east side, 3, built a shelter for him, 4, sat under the shade, 5, and tried to watch it become a city.
2, there is an amazing work of God
“The Lord God Prepared a Gourd Vine”
God prepared a big fish before, =Jon 1:17 This time he prepared a gourd.
Lee Bak 1, made a veil over Jonah 2, and shaded his head 3, so he tried to relieve his suffering.
Jonah rejoiced over the gourd
This shows that Jonah is suffering from a scorching sun
But the next day something else happened.
(1) God prepared worms
Jonah's prayer was short-lived
(2) At dawn the next day, the beetle bit the gourd and immediately withered.
The dawn is before the sun rises Jonah enjoyed the shade of the gourd for only one day, and now that time has passed.
(3) God prepared a scorching east wind after sunrise = 8.
The moving wind was used to emphasize the seriousness of the bodily pain that Jonah suffered.
(4) Jonah cried out, “It is better for me to die than to live, because I am weary and seek death on my own.
God rebuked Jonah's attitude like this, and Jonah said, "Even if I die in anger, it is worthy" = Verse 9, This is the course of the incident related to the gourd.
3, there is God's great mercy
“How much less in Nineveh, the great city, there are about a hundred thousand people who cannot distinguish right and left
God has mercy on Nineveh's one hundred thousand ignorant people
A person who cannot distinguish right and left is not an adult, but a child
Therefore, if we count them as three years old and take 5/1 of the population, the total population is 600.000.
God reminded Jonah that 1, He did not work, 2, He did not cultivate, 3, and the leaf vines that grew and died overnight = 10, reminding Jonah that he spared the people of Inineveh and their livestock. Verse 11, he said
This reveals what God's mercy is and what condition it is.