The Sign of Jonah

(~1h15m timestamp) The Sign of Jonah is more than resurrection.

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I mean, we're going to go into deep weeds here if you let me, you know, this is, I'm not filibustering like President Putin did, but, right, you look at the book Jonah in particular: he flees not because he's afraid of the Assyrians, right? Like that's what people think, is like he's scared to go there?

No. Like you read the end of the Book of Jonah, and he's arguing with God at the end, and He's saying, I knew that you would show mercy on these people, right? I knew you would the mercy, that's why I didn't want to go, right.

He was out with God, like trick God into not being gracious to these Gentiles, because he knows in the law, right, in Deuteronomy, right, one of the signs that Israel is about to be cursed is that he is going to call nations, the Gentiles, nations that do not know him to himself. He's going to go to the Gentiles and away from Israel.

And that means judgment is going come upon Israel.

So, Jonah knows this. He is like, I am going the opposite direction. I'm going to Tarshish, to Spain, because I am not going to let God judge my people, right?

That's why he's angry about this.

And it gets even more interesting because Jesus talks about the sign of Jonah to Israel and people think, oh, well, Jonah's, he's talking about the resurrection, being in the ground for three days and three nights.

I mean, that's symbolic. That's typological. He's drawing on the typology.

But it's not about that.

It's that what's going to happen? Gentiles are going to hear the gospel and not you. Right? And that judgment is going to come on Israel, right? Judgment is going to come this generation. And that's what Jesus says at the beginning of Matthew 24 is these things are going happen in this generation, right. He is walking with disciples in the temple, and they're marveling at the temple. We would marvel too. I mean, beautiful, like the whole thing is clad in gold on the outside is gorgeous, beautiful. Giant, I mean massive stones that you, it boggles your mind how human beings can move these things and build this stuff without, you know, modern power tools, right? They're marveling at the temple.

And Jesus is like, what are you looking at?

Do you not know that not one stone is going to be left upon another very soon?