What is the sign of Jonah in the end times?

[Aijalon]

In an end times context, what is the sign of Jonah, what will it be?

One answer may be that the references to Jonah in Matthew 12 and 16 have nothing to do with the end times, but perhaps more to do with the times of the Jews. There were 40 days for Nineveh to repent, these may be 40 years for Judah to repent from the time when Jesus began his 3 year ministry (AD 30 to AD 70)

But is there something more to it? Jesus spoke at many different levels.

Nineveh did repent upon hearing Jonah, and yet we see that Nineveh is connected to end times prophecy through Nahum and through the 45 days between the 1290 and 1335 days.

Jonah was 3.5 days running away from God, + 40 days of his prophecy, and one and a half days watching the city for a total of 45 days. The 40 days of repentance match the 40 days of testing that God will send upon the whole world when he appears in the clouds. At the end of 40 days in the clouds, he destroys the kingdom of the antichrist and liberates the saints.

 

[Gottservant]

The sign of Ezekiel is the sign of the end times.

This is the vision of man as less than beast.

It accords with Heavenly worship (as seen in Revelation).

If you understand me correctly, it should point you to a higher order than man is able to perceive.

(With regard to the falling away of the Church in the end times, the sign is the first Death of Judas (before he fell into the ravine, which was the Second Death))

 

[Time Watcher]

There is no connection of the sign of Jonah related to the end times

 

[Gottservant]

There is no connection of the sign of Jonah related to the end times

Unless you translate the structure of the scripture in which it is given to a different context.

Granted this is difficult, but with the Holy Spirit it is possible.

Do not underestimate the ability of scripture, to apply to other contexts.

 

[Time Watcher]

This you should not be doing with the "Jonah sign" .... it only creates confusion

There is no connection with the prophetic scriptures still unfulfilled for the time of the end of this present age

The unbelieving Jews asked for a sign that Jesus was the Son of God as He claimed to be and the sign that He gave was that of Jonah's experience paralleling His own coming death and resurrection which they failed to recognize

Today we have the Lord's written word and His direct advanced revelation with regard for who He is and what He is going to do about those who reject Him .... and even though this revelation is given, many still ignore or reject

This behavior is also spelled out and revealed in scripture

He will give no sign or warning just before He intervenes to bring His hour [time] of trial upon the whole world

This event will happen suddenly as the lost world of humanity goes on about their business with no warning [Matthew 24: 36-39; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9]

It is obvious to any who diligently study the Lord's Word that there are many connections, and that it because it is His Word

Jonah's experience was given for a specific purpose to the unbelieving of Israel at the Lord's first advent .... who then missed the related sign

 

[Interplanner]

It doesn't have anything to do with our end times; the "end times" is not firstly future. It was about that decisive generation, which is why a generation was mentioned.

 

[zeke37]

There is no connection of the sign of Jonah related to the end times

ya I agree....
that sign was for His death and Resurrection

 

[ebedmelech]

Jonah was a sign to Israel of their messiah...that's why Jesus said in Matthew 12:38-40:
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;
40 for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

At that point John is a sign to everyone of the resurrection...there won't be another!

 

[YeShallTread]

There is no connection of the sign of Jonah related to the end times


Zeke37 - ya I agree....that sign was for His death and Resurrection

As much as I hate to disagree with Zeke (for I am most often in agreement with him)...I do so here (in part) as I think more is being said and it is indeed related to the end times. I read the OP and thought about it and this is what I am given to see:

Matthew 12:38-40 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from Thee. But He answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

12:41-42 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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The prophet Jonas was a sign himself for it is written...

Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.


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So there are two signs mentioned in the passage. The greatest sign is that of Christ and His death and resurrection and that is a sign believers thank Him for. However the "sign of Jonah" is the sign given to what generation? The evil and adulterous generation. To me that shows that the resurrection is not a sign given to them for it is one that they cannot see. They are only given the sign of Jonah.

I see the "evil and adulterous generation" as being in all generations...not just the one in which the literal Jonah taught. The same applies to the generation of those that seek Him. The "this generation" in the above speaks of all generations since this age began.

Psalm 24:3-6 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

Psalm 22:30-31 A seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this.
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[TargetPractice]

Since a lot of prophecy is cyclical, and has multiple fulfillments, how would the sign of Jonah be seen as an end times prophecy?

 

[YeShallTread]

Since a lot of prophecy is cyclical, and has multiple fulfillments, how would the sign of Jonah be seen as an end times prophecy?

LOL. I think you have answered your own question....as it is cyclical and as it has multiple fulfillments...why would it not be a sign of end times? Especially when you consider that it is given to an "evil and adulterous generation."

As Jonah himself was a sign, as we too are signs, then what does he teach the evil generation, for it is all generations of flesh?

Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.

Well Jonah balked at this as he didn't think Nineveh/Babylon the great city was worthy of redemption...so he was put in the belly of the whale then vomited up and then....
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3:1-3 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

Jonah preached the Word of the Lord and warned that they would be overthrown. That is what is still preached to the evil and adulterous generation.
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[Interplanner]

Did Jesus use the Jonah sign as though it was multiple? If Lk 21 is true, that the events of the DofJ were "a punishment in fulfillment of all that was written," why would it repeat? Your multiplicity theory weakens the force of what happened in the 1st century to Israel.

So does futurism in general.

 

[parousia70]

Did Jesus use the Jonah sign as though it was multiple? If Lk 21 is true, that the events of the DofJ were "a punishment in fulfillment of all that was written," why would it repeat? Your multiplicity theory weakens the force of what happened in the 1st century to Israel.

So does futurism in general.

Well Said.
Should we be looking for another Virgin Birth? Another Crusifixion?

If Prophesy has multiple fulfillments how can anyone know when it is fully-ful-filled?... (hows that for redundancy?)

The Multiple fulfillment theory renders the very word "fulfillment" meaningless.

Luke 21 is indeed true, Jesus words can be trusted.

 

[YeShallTread]

Did Jesus use the Jonah sign as though it was multiple?

Yes for an "evil and adulterous generation" is inclusive of all time. The generation encompasses all ages of man.

If Lk 21 is true, that the events of the DofJ were "a punishment in fulfillment of all that was written," why would it repeat? Your multiplicity theory weakens the force of what happened in the 1st century to Israel.

So does futurism in general.

The weakness is found in the thinking of people that consider the destruction of the temple in 70AD to be the fulfillment of prophecy.

Luke 21:5-7 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And they asked Him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
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Has all been fulfilled? No, so the generation He spoke of has not passed away.

Mark 13:1-2 And as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples saith unto Him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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The temple was destroyed...however all the buildings of the temple were not for the western wall is included in the "buildings of the temple," and they are "one stone upon another."

 

[YeShallTread]

Well Said.
Should we be looking for another Virgin Birth? Another Crusifixion?

If Prophesy has multiple fulfillments how can anyone know when it is fully-ful-filled?... (hows that for redundancy?)

The Multiple fulfillment theory renders the very word "fulfillment" meaningless.

Luke 21 is indeed true, Jesus words can be trusted.

Luke 21 is indeed true and the words of Jesus can indeed be trusted however...they must first be understood.

 

[parousia70]

The temple was destroyed...however all the buildings of the temple were not for the western wall is included in the "buildings of the temple,"

What scripture teaches that the western wall is included?

 

[YeShallTread]

What scripture teaches that the western wall is included?

Is there a Scripture teaching that the western wall is not to be included with "the buildings of the temple?" Are they "one great stone upon another?" Where is the mount of Olives, where Christ stood at that time, in relation to the western wall? Would the great stones, one upon another, be exactly what He was looking at as He said those words?

E.W. Bullinger wrote...."The buildings of the temple - these consisted of the courts, halls, colonnades, towers and wings."

The Kotel.org.....The Western Wall is the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount, the one that was closest to the Holy of Holies when the Temple stood.
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[peterlindner]

And the LORD God prepared a PUMPKIN(gourd), and made it to come up over Jonah.

The days(before the flood ended) of Noe...27th of the 2nd month is OCTOBER 31st this year.

Sheni Passover is one month late Passover=(results in) one month late Tabernacles.

Feast is 14 days (Solomon). Month late (cheshvan) 14th/15th to 27th/28th.

This years Hallows Eve lines up as does Thanksgiving with Hannukah.