by f ziamond | Aug 1, 2025
ThisVerseFitz relating to modern times, accepting forgiveness.
On this thirty first Sunday of 2025, August 3, we enter the Book of Jonah. This “fitz” in modern times as people should appreciate forgiveness when the opposition recognizes their wrongdoing and corrects it. And not become angry that they didn’t receive harsh punishment.
The Lord calls on Jonah to go to Nineveh to call out the evils taking place. Jonah has different plans.
Jonah 1:1-3 – “Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.”
God sends a storm around the ship and the mariners question Jonah. They concluded that the storm was brought on because of Jonah. At Jonah’s request, they hurled him into the sea and he is swallowed by a great fish.
Jonah 1:17 – “And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
After Jonah prays, he is eventually vomited up by the whale and he was told again to go to Nineveh
Jonah 3:1-5 – “Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that i tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.”
The King of Nineveh received word of this and commanded the people be covered in sackcloth and turn from their evil ways.
Jonah 3:10 – “When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah was displeased as he wanted the people of Nineveh to be punished. He left the city in anger. He asked the Lord to take his life.
Jonah 4:3-4 – “Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?””
The Lord provided him with a plant to give him shade for comfort.
Jonah 4:6-11 – “Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?””
“God Search in Words” works exactly as a normal “Word Search” with a somewhat higher level of difficulty given the Biblical terms. Once all the words are found, the leftover letters repeat a phrase 3.12 times (meaning the phrase is present 3 times and 12 letters of the phrase are left over). We call this the “AfterPuzzle”.
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