Why

Seven?
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U-
Alger Prajes
TURN
JONAH 1-4
“BUT JONAH ROSE UP
TO FLEE UNTO
TARSHISH FROM THE
PRESENCE OF
THE LORD, AND WENT
DOWN TO JOPPA; AND
HE FOUND A SHIP
GOING TO TARSHISH:
SO HE PAID THE FARE
THEREOF, AND WENT
DOWN INTO IT, TO GO
WITH THEM UNTO
TARSHISH FROM THE
PRESENCE OF
THE LORD.”

JONAH 1:3 KJV

WHY FLEE?
“
HE WAS THE ONE WHO
RESTORED THE BOUNDARIES OF
ISRAEL FROM LEBO HAMATH TO
THE DEAD SEA,[A] IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD
OF THE LORD, THE GOD OF
ISRAEL, SPOKEN THROUGH HIS
SERVANT JONAH SON OF AMITTAI,
THE PROPHET FROM GATH
HEPHER.”

11 KINGS 14:25 NIV

JEROBOAM, IN GOD'S GOOD PROVIDENCE (
2KI 14:26-27), CAPITALIZED ON ASSYRIA'S
DEFEAT OF DAMASCUS (IN THE LATTER HALF
OF THE NINTH CENTURY), WHICH
TEMPORARILY CRUSHED THAT CENTER OF
ARAMEAN POWER. PRIOR TO THAT TIME, NOT
ONLY HAD ISRAEL BEEN CONSIDERABLY
REDUCED IN SIZE, BUT THE KING OF
DAMASCUS HAD EVEN BEEN ABLE TO
CONTROL INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM (2KI 13:7).

HOWEVER, AFTER THE ASSYRIAN CAMPAIGN

AGAINST DAMASCUS IN 797, JEHOASH KING
OF ISRAEL HAD BEEN ABLE TO RECOVER THE
TERRITORY LOST TO THE KING OF
DAMASCUS (2KI 13:25). INTERNAL TROUBLES
IN ASSYRIA SUBSEQUENTLY ALLOWED
JEROBOAM TO COMPLETE THE
RESTORATION OF ISRAEL'S NORTHERN
BORDERS. NEVERTHELESS, ASSYRIA
REMAINED THE REAL THREAT FROM THE
NORTH AT THIS TIME.
WHY WOULD GOD
ORDERED JONAH TO
GO NINEVEH?
 ARISE, GO TO
“2 

NINEVEH, THAT GREAT

CITY, AND CRY
AGAINST IT; FOR
THEIR WICKEDNESS IS
COME UP BEFORE ME.”

JONAH 1:2 KJV

4 
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest
in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5 
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth
the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was
gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
But the prayers of the man who had
turned aside from the path of duty
brought no help. The mariners,
impressed with the thought that the
strange violence of the storm
betokened the anger of their gods,
proposed as a last resort the casting
of lots, “that we may know,” they
said, “for whose cause this evil is
upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot
fell upon Jonah. Then said they unto
him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose
cause this evil is upon us; what is
thine occupation? and whence comest
thou? what is thy country? and of
what people art thou? 
Ellen G White (PK 267.3)
There are about 88
accounts of casting
lot in the Old
Testament and
seven in New
Testament.

Acts 1:26
Casting lots is
Biblical and as
part of Religious
practices of
searching or
determining who
the person was.
“Nevertheless the men rowed
hard to bring it to the land; but
they could not: for the sea
wrought, and was tempestuous
against them. Wherefore they
cried unto the Lord, and said, We
beseech Thee, O Lord, we beseech
Thee, let us not perish for this
man's life, and lay not upon us
innocent blood: for Thou, O Lord,
hast done as it pleased Thee. So
they took up Jonah, and cast him
forth into the sea: and the sea
ceased from her raging. Then the
men feared the Lord exceedingly,
and offered a sacrifice unto the
Lord, and made vows. 
“Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord
his God out of the fish's belly, and
said: PK 268.6
“I cried by reason of mine
affliction unto the Lord, 
And He heard me; 
Out of the belly of hell cried I, 
And Thou heardest my voice. PK
268.7
“For Thou hadst cast me into the
deep, 
In the midst of the seas; 
And the floods compassed me
about: 
And Thy billows and Thy waves
passed over me. PK 269.1
“Then I said, I am cast out of Thy
sight; 
Yet I will look again toward Thy
holy temple. 
The waters compassed me about, 
Even to the soul: PK 269.2
“The depth closed me round about, 
The weeds were wrapped about my
head. 
I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains; 
The earth with her bars was about me
forever: PK 269.3
“Yet hast Thou brought up my life
from corruption, O 
Lord my God. 
When my soul fainted within me I
remembered the 
Lord: 
And my prayer came in unto Thee, 
Into Thine holy temple. PK 269.4
“They that observe lying vanities
forsake their own mercy. 
But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the
voice of thanksgiving; 
I will pay that that I have vowed. 
Salvation is of the Lord.” PK 269.5
“1And the word of
the Lord came unto
Jonah the second
time, saying,
2 
Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great
city, and preach unto it
the preaching that I
bid thee.
Jonah 1:1-2 KJV
4 And Jonah began
to enter into the
city a day's
journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet
forty days, and
Nineveh shall be
overthrown.”
Jonah 3:4 KJV
5 The Ninevites
believed God. A fast
was proclaimed, and
all of them, from the
greatest to the least,
put on sackcloth.
Jonah 3:5 KJV
6 Then word came to the king of
Nineveh; and he arose from his
throne and laid aside his robe,
covered himself with
sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7 And
he caused it to be proclaimed and
published throughout Nineveh by
the decree of the king and his [b
]
nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor
flock, taste anything; do not let
them eat, or drink water. 8 But let
man and beast be covered with
sackcloth, and cry mightily to God;
yes, let everyone turn from his evil
way and from the violence that is in
his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will
turn and relent, and turn away from
His fierce anger, so that we may not
perish? Jonah 3:6-9 NKJV
 WHEN GOD SAW WHAT
10 

THEY DID, HOW THEY

TURNED FROM THEIR
EVIL WAY, GOD
RELENTED OF THE
DISASTER THAT HE HAD
SAID HE WOULD DO TO
THEM, AND HE DID NOT
DO IT.

JONAH 3:10 ESV

WHEN JONAH LEARNED OF GOD’S PURPOSE TO
SPARE THE CITY THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING
ITS WICKEDNESS, HAD BEEN LED TO REPENT
IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES, HE SHOULD HAVE
BEEN THE FIRST TO REJOICE BECAUSE OF
GOD’S AMAZING GRACE; BUT INSTEAD HE
ALLOWED HIS MIND TO DWELL UPON THE
POSSIBILITY OF HIS BEING REGARDED AS A
FALSE PROPHET. JEALOUS OF HIS
REPUTATION, HE LOST SIGHT OF THE
INFINITELY GREATER VALUE OF THE SOULS IN
THAT WRETCHED CITY.
 AND SHOULD NOT I
11 

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?” JONAH 4:11 ESV
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