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The Worm
01.19.06 (5:18 pm)   [edit]
I was listening to Keith Green talk about the prophet Jonah and mentioning the worm in Chapter 4. It's all the same story, Jonah runs from God, gets tossed from the ship on the way to Tarshish, swallowed and burped out by appointed whale, and goes to do preaching. He said Jonah's preaching was '40 days and Nineveh would be destroyed.' AND not "if you repent." Just destroyed. So when the King ordered sackcloth on every man and beast, and to sit in ashes, the Lord saw and had mercy on them. So Chapter 4 rolls around, and Jonah's "bummed out," that he didn't see them shake and bake. And he's angry. And said, "I wish I were dead." Then he said he fled because he knew God would relent and spare them, that He was merciful. Jonah went out and made a booth outside the city to watch it, and see what would happen to it, I suppose expecting the Lord to turn and destroy it. This is the meat of it: God appointed a gourd to represent Nineveh, a tall castor-oil producing tree. And Jonah loved it, like air conditioning. So the prophet is like how the Lord now sees Nineveh, Lord had mercy on that city. So God appoints a worm - a tiny little soldier - to come and smote the gourd. I don't know how a worm can eat a tree, or cause it to whither overnight, but the Lord prepared it, just like the whale. It falls down, Jonah's angry. But he doesn't seem to realize what God's representing here. Jonah was the worm. He was eating Nineveh. That's what the Lord was trying to say. So He asked Jonah... "Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?" And Jonah miserably says, "It does me well even unto death..." Meaning the Lord spared that city, it pleased Him to do it, and now He wants Jonah to see that if He did what Jonah wanted, it would anger Him - the city's reaction pleased Him. That's when the Lord tells him... You neither made the gourd grow up, nor did you make the world it grew from. You had pity on the gourd, and you didn't prepare it or take care of it, yet you had pity on it when it went down. So should I, who made the world Nineveh grew out from, and Nineveh, destroy that city? Don't I have pity on it? Then says they don't know their left hand from their right, and yet the Lord was very patient with them. From knowing Christ, I know that that last statement means they didn't know His law, but when Jonah came and preached that they were evil in God's sight, they knew them and repented from them. And so Christ uses that, "Just as Jonah was in the whale three days, so shall the Son of man be in the earth 3 days." And so if you go to Psalms Chapter 22, and read where it says Jesus' words on the Cross, and His method of death before the Romans invented it (tidbit of knowledge there...), He says, "I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people," and so He was referring to the prophet Jonah. His burial. His death. That's what was a part of Paul's Gospel, init? 1. Jesus died, according to the scriptures. 2. Was buried. (3) Was raised up, according to the scriptures. Amazing how it all interconnects. But I'd love to find out more about this worm... It's funny to think about how small I truly am, yet the Lord has mercy and pity enough on me to even be able to suffer for His name. For what He's doing. And in the end, my only dream and lasting wish is for the Lord to say what He says in scripture, "Well done, you good and faithful slave." Enter into My rest... And I'd like to make a post about Jesus's parable that had Abraham's Bosom in it, which relates to Naomi's bosom, a type of father Abraham, a type of Israel (grandfather of Jacob), which is the book of Ruth Chapter 4, Verse 16, one day.
 


posted by: exsuscito (reply)
post date: 01.20.06 (9:04 am)

Actually this is feedback for your blog in general; the present color scheme leaves me to believe that you tend to feel blue.



posted by: Isaac (reply)
post date: 01.20.06 (10:47 am)

The color scheme is blue for two reasons. (1) When I first started following Christ, I would stare up at the sky as I walked around, amazed. I was so fascinated by the smaller things, and by things I couldn't see, I made that the object of my affection, the Lord. TBlog changed the design, but the header background is of clouds, so it's a sky theme. And (2) the colors are from the Chexbox.com that went dead after I couldn't afford to pay for it.
It has nothing to do with sadness.



posted by: Isaac (reply)
post date: 01.20.06 (10:48 am)

Reply to: exsuscito
The color scheme is blue for two reasons. (1) When I first started following Christ, I would stare up at the sky as I walked around, amazed. I was so fascinated by the smaller things, and by things I couldn't see, I made that the object of my affection, the Lord. TBlog changed the design, but the header background is of clouds, so it's a sky theme. And (2) the colors are from the Chexbox.com that went dead after I couldn't afford to pay for it.
It has nothing to do with sadness.



posted by: exsuscito (reply)
post date: 01.23.06 (12:15 pm)

Wow, I'm humbled by the potential diversity of perceptions. I would have never guessed this; I haven't given it much thought, but my own association of color with Christ would most likely be similar to sunlight, white and yellow.



posted by: Isaac (reply)
post date: 01.23.06 (7:55 pm)

Reply to: exsuscito
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