Week 5: Jonah

Week 5: Jonah

Objective: 

Resources:

Activity for every week: Can you recite the 12 minor prophets?

Reading:

Key verse(s):

I have been cast out of Your sight, Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

NOTE TO SERVANT:

Minor Prophets introduction:

Minor Prophets

Before Assyrian Captivity


Directed to the North Kingdom

After Assyrian and before Babylonian captivities


Directed to the South Kingdom

After Captivity

1.     Hosea

2.     Joel

3.     Amos

4.     Obadiah (Edom)

5.     Jonah

6.     Micah

7.     Nahum (Nineveh)

8.     Habakkuk

9.     Zephaniah

10.  Haggai

11.  Zechariah

12.  Malachi

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Comments:

Theme of Jonah: The Lord's mercy and forgiveness
Messianic Prophecy: Jonah is a type of Jesus Christ (He came out alive after three days and the Ninevites were saved. Our Lord rose on the third day and delivered His people)

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

  1. Why did Jonah run from God?
  2. What effect did God stirring and stilling the storm have on the sailors?
  3. How do you see Jonah’s prayer: a cry for help, for forgiveness or for thanksgiving?
  4. Give verses showing Jonah’s assurance of the deliverance of God.
  5. What was the Ninevites' reaction to Jonah’s message?
  6. Mention four commands in the decree given by the king.
  7. Show Jonah’s selfishness through this Holy Book.
  8. After reading the Book of Jonah, prove that salvation comes from the Lord to everyone who believes.

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

  1. The Lord asked Jonah to go to:
    a) Tarshish b) Nineveh c) Joppa
  2. What was Jonah doing when the storm started?
    a) praying b) eating c) sleeping
  3. Jonah was in the belly of the fish for:
    a) forty days b) one week c) three days and three nights
  4. While in the belly of the fish Jonah was:
    a) praying b) singing c) crying d) all of these
  5. How many days did the Ninevites have before the city was overthrown?
    a) three b) ten c) forty
  6. When the Ninevites heard Jonah’s message they:
    a) proclaimed a fast b) believed God c) put on sackcloth d) all of these
  7. The plant was damaged by:
    a) fire b) a worm c) wind d) rain
  8. How many people lived in Nineveh?
    a) 20,000 b) 200 c) 120,000

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Created 5 August 2024 01:42:29 by Mena Ibrahim
Updated 8 November 2024 15:40:21 by Mena Ibrahim