Everyone. Here's a reading from Jonah three 10 through four 11. And this is a very interesting part, Jenna, because right before this week, Jonah, and you go up in Nineveh, which is where God told Johnny to go first. And Jonah was not really a, a fan of that. He sort of went the opposite way. To the opposite ends of the earth, we try to.

Right. So he gets on the boat and things don't go, well, he ends up in the belly of a Leviathan or fish or whale, or, yeah, it depends on how you translate it. Um, big sea creature and, uh, Jonah doesn't, uh, think he's going to make it. And lo and behold, because he gives us what a deliverance and a song of deliverance, the fish things, but some out.

And Jonah makes his way over to Nineveh. He curses, Nineveh thinking like this is futile and here's where it gets interesting for our chapter here, because Jonah has just given his basically like Oracle of destruction, like, Hey, Hey, Nineveh. You're not going to make it because you're terrible people. And you're not worth my time as a profit.

Right. And. Jonah is just in distressed. The King of a Siri hears this and all the people have a Siri hears that, hear this and all the cattle and all the, all the animals in Syria and Nineveh. And none of them being the capital of Syria at the time here are this. And they, uh, they repenting lo and behold, according to Jonah, not necessarily historically true, but that's not the point.

Right? So Jonah three, uh, First 10 30 chapter four, verse 11, when God saw what they did, the Ninevites the people in Nineveh that, that, uh, Jenna had just preached too, how they turned from their evil ways. God changed. God's mind about the calamity that God had said God would bring upon them. God changes.

God's mind only in like exit us. Do we see that kind of thing where Moses says, Hey, you know, I don't speak too well. And God says, Oh, you'll be fine. And Moses says, nah, I'm not that great of a public speaker. And God says, yeah, you know, you're right. Take ticket with you. So God changes. God's mind there and here in Jonah, uh, and God did not do it.

God did not bring destruction upon Nineveh like Jonah prophesied, but this was very displeasing to Jonah. And Jonah became angry. He prayed to the Lord and said, Oh Lord is not this what I said while I was still in my own country. This is why I fled to, she said at the beginning for, I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and ready to relent from punishing.

And now Lord, please take my life for me for it is better for me to die than to live. And the Lord said, is it right for you to be angry? God, just kind of throws all that away about living in death. And it says, is it right for you to be angry? Then Jonah went out of the city, any sat East of the city, none of them, which was large city.

It took days to walk across, according to Joni here. And he made a booth for himself there booth meaning like a covering. So we have the festival of booths. Right. And, and Judaism still, um, it's, it's nomadic kind of covering that you would make. And the desert, uh, he sat under it in the shade waiting to see what would become of the city.

The Lord, God appointed a Bush and made it come up over Janet. It gives shade over his head to save him from his own discount. So Jonah was very happy about the Bush, but when Dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that tack the Bush so that it withered. When the sun Rose God prepared a sultry East wind.

Which is a hot wind in this part of the world and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, is it better for me to die than to live? But God said to Jonah again, is it right for you to be angry about the Bush? And he said, yes, angry enough to die. We can all sympathize with that sometimes.

Right. Then the Lord said, you're concerned about the Bush. For which you did not labor and what you did not grow. It came into being in a night and perished in a night in which there are, uh, and should I not be concerned about 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 many animals.

So. God was trying to teach gen ed lesson here as God has been doing this entire book. And that's how the book of Jonah ends. So next we get into Micah in our Christian Canon. So it's really interesting to me how, you know, w we get this, uh, very, uh, detailed kind of metaphorical telling of, of. Pursuing a call.

And when God calls you, what do you do? Do you go to the other end of the world? And then when you finally gets bit by a fish and you ended up where you're supposed to be, uh, you're still going bitter and angry, and God says, Hey, don't worry about living or dying. Don't be angry. Or do you have the right to be angry?

Anyway, great story. I love this story. Loved Jonah, and I think it's definitely something we should be listening to today.