The Book Of Jonah

Agenda

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Introduction

Purpose

Themes

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 Introduction
• Author -Son of Amitai, From the town of Gath-Hepher, near Nazareth
that later came to be known as Galilee (2 Kings 14:25)
• Original Audience – People of Israel
• Date Written Approximately 985-760 BC
• Key Verse – 4:11

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 Settings
• Jonah preceded Amos
• Under Jeroboam II, Israel’s most powerful king (2 Kings 14:23-25)
• Assyria was Israel’s great enemy, they conquered Israel in 722 BC
• Nineveh’s repentance has been short lived because the city was
destroyed in 612 BC

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 Purpose
• To show the extent of God’s grace, that the message of Salvation is for
all people

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 Blue Print
• Jonah forsakes his mission (1:1-2:10)-
• Jonah fulfills his mission (3:1-4:11)

• He was a reluctant prophet given a mission he found distasteful. He

chose to run away from God rather than obey him.

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 Theme
• God’s Sovereignty – God is always in control. Even though Jonah tried
to run away from God and His plan, by controlling the stormy seas and
the great fish. God displayed the absolute yet loving guidance.
• God’s message to all people – God has given Jonah a purpose – to preach
the great Assyrian City of Nineveh.
• Repentance – When the reluctant preacher went to Nineveh, there was a
great response. The people repented and turned to God. It is a great
rebuked to the people of Israel, who thought they were better people than
the Assyrian but had refused to respond to God’s message.
• God’s Compassion – God’s mercy and forgiveness was not for the
people of Israel’s alone.
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 Summary
• Jeroboam II (793-753 BC) was an evil king before the Lord but during
his reign, Israel’s stood among the nations, though in a political and not
in a spiritual sense.
• The increased prosperity resulted in a materialistic culture that thrived to
the poor and oppressed,
• Rather than direct Jonah to prophesy to his own people God
commissioned him to the Assyrian capital Nineveh.
• Unwilling to delivers God message, Jonah turned and aimed for the
farthest westward point known as Tarshish (Modern day Spain).

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 Summary
• After God turned him to the right direction, the prophet obediently
prophesied to the people of Nineveh while Ashurdan III (772-754 BC).
• Though Assyria had been in a politically weakened state, their cruelty to
the captives and ither undesirables was well known in Israel.

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 Why is Jonah Important?
• Jonah was one of only 4 writing prophets that Jesus mentioned during
his earthly ministry. (Isaiah, Daniel, Zechariah).
• Jesus noting Jonah’s experience as a foreshadowing of His own death
and resurrection. (Matthew 12:39-41)
• Jesus’s identification with the prophet at the lowest point of Jonah’s life
finds echoes in the book of Hebrews. (Hebrews 2:17)
• The blook of Jonah stands as an important link in the prophetic chain.

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 What is my takeaway?

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Primary goals
Annual revenue growth
 Quarterly performance
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Series 3 Series 2 Series 1

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 Areas of growth
B2B Supply chain ROI E-commerce

Q1 4.5 2.3 1.7 5.0

Q2 3.2 5.1 4.4 3.0

Q3 2.1 1.7 2.5 2.8

Q4 4.5 2.2 1.7 7.0

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 Meet our team

Takuma Hayashi​ Mirjam Nilsson​ Flora Berggren​ Rajesh Santoshi​

President Chief Executive Officer Chief Operations Officer VP Marketing

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 Meet our extended team

Takuma Hayashi​ Mirjam Nilsson​ Flora Berggren​ Rajesh Santoshi​

President Chief Executive Officer Chief Operations Officer VP Marketing

Graham Barnes Rowan Murphy Elizabeth Moore Robin Kline

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 Plan for product launch

Planning Marketing Design Strategy Launch

Synergize scalable Disseminate Coordinate e- Foster holistically Deploy strategic

e-commerce standardized business superior networks with
metrics applications methodologies compelling e-
business needs

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 Timeline

Sep 20XX Jan 20XX May 20XX

Synergize scalable e-commerce Coordinate e-business Deploy strategic networks with
applications compelling e-business needs

Foster holistically superior

Disseminate standardized metrics methodologies
Nov 20XX Mar 20XX

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 Areas of focus

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B2B market scenarios
• Develop winning strategies to keep ahead of the
competition
• Capitalize on low-hanging fruit to identify a ballpark
value
• Visualize customer directed convergence

Cloud-based opportunities
• Iterative approaches to corporate strategy
• Establish a management framework from the inside

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 How we get there

ROI Niche markets Supply chains

• Envision multimedia-based • Pursue scalable customer service • Cultivate one-to-one customer
expertise and cross-media growth through sustainable strategies service with robust ideas
strategies
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• Visualize quality intellectual with cutting-edge deliverables real-time schemas
capital
• Engage worldwide methodologies
with web-enabled technologies

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 Summary
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 Mirjam Nilsson​

Thank you mirjam@contoso.com

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