The Real Meaning of Life

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As I said earlier, scripture doesn’t say, but for some reason Jonah had had differences with the city of Nineveh. He didn’t like it, he didn’t like being called to do God’s work in it, and he surely was disappointed and angry about it.

Because Jonah walked through the street preaching, the people listened and turned back to God and repented of their sins.

Scripture says, and I’m paraphrasing, “God relented from His punishment”…it wasn’t God that was going to do anything to them. God knows what happens to us when we stray from Him. He knows the perils of trying to live life on our own without Him, and He was simply warning the people of Nineveh what would happen if their actions continued. I should really rename this blog to “The Broken Record” because of the message I shout, but it is the same message over and over throughout the Bible. God is Jesus and Jesus is God, two distinct beings yet together one. If you think Jesus had the character that He would have destroy Nineveh for their sins, then okay, God would too. But that’s not the character I read about in Jesus. Nor is it God’s character.

From reading the Old Testament, the Pharisees pictured the Messiah coming in armor, riding a white horst, sword in hand, reading the lead the children of Israel into battle to slay the Romans and the sinners. Because that is the character that is portrayed in the Old Testament.

Can we not learn from the Pharisees, that their perception of God and the Messiah were deeply skewed, and that ours is too?