inhimitrust
19th May 2004, 01:42 PM
Book of Jonah
Jonah "dove". Has anyone studied the book of Jonah? I assume there are some bible readers here who might know if what I see in this book could be correct or not.
Jonah appears to represent the whole new testament in one book and is mentioned by Christ "sign of Jonah" in the gosples.
I believe Jonah represents "Christ" in the first part. He is told to preach to Nineveh but runs and boards a "ship". I belive this ship signifies "Jerusalem". The "sailors" appear to represent the "jews"/"romans", he is thrown overboard (crucified), thrown up 3 days later("resurrected"), and turns into "Paul" to preach to the gentiles and I believe Paul was the one that would bind "Peter" and take him where he didn't want to go, as Paul preached against the "old law" which Christ didn't. Christ said He had many more things to say but that was not the time, so of course, Paul comes along to take over).
At the end of Jonah, the vine that grows appears to be "Jerusalem", the worm seems to represent the corrupt jewish priest/rulers, and a scorching "east wind" appears to be the destruction of it.
It was pretty amazing when I was reading thru this for the 7th time and it suddenly just appeared like this. And actually, this may be the only OT scripture that proves Paul coming, as I hear a lot of people saying he was a false apostle or anti semetic. Some messianic jews even try to bring "jews" to Christ by throwing out all of Paul's epistles because they don't agree with what Christ preached. That is a pretty absurd thing to do, as if you discredit even one book in the bible, you discredit the whole bible.
Anyway, this is just a shortened version of my interpretation of this book, and I would like to hear from others on this just for discussion.
Jonah "dove". Has anyone studied the book of Jonah? I assume there are some bible readers here who might know if what I see in this book could be correct or not.
Jonah appears to represent the whole new testament in one book and is mentioned by Christ "sign of Jonah" in the gosples.
I believe Jonah represents "Christ" in the first part. He is told to preach to Nineveh but runs and boards a "ship". I belive this ship signifies "Jerusalem". The "sailors" appear to represent the "jews"/"romans", he is thrown overboard (crucified), thrown up 3 days later("resurrected"), and turns into "Paul" to preach to the gentiles and I believe Paul was the one that would bind "Peter" and take him where he didn't want to go, as Paul preached against the "old law" which Christ didn't. Christ said He had many more things to say but that was not the time, so of course, Paul comes along to take over).
At the end of Jonah, the vine that grows appears to be "Jerusalem", the worm seems to represent the corrupt jewish priest/rulers, and a scorching "east wind" appears to be the destruction of it.
It was pretty amazing when I was reading thru this for the 7th time and it suddenly just appeared like this. And actually, this may be the only OT scripture that proves Paul coming, as I hear a lot of people saying he was a false apostle or anti semetic. Some messianic jews even try to bring "jews" to Christ by throwing out all of Paul's epistles because they don't agree with what Christ preached. That is a pretty absurd thing to do, as if you discredit even one book in the bible, you discredit the whole bible.
Anyway, this is just a shortened version of my interpretation of this book, and I would like to hear from others on this just for discussion.