TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

JONAH 1:3a

BIBLE TEXT: “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…So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging…Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” (Jonah 1:3, 15, 17 KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: Notice, when Jonah was running from God he went down to Joppa, down into a ship, down into the sea, and down into the belly of a whale. The moral of this story is obvious, the only way you can go when you're running from God is down.

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: Although some argue that the book of Jonah doesn’t say that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, but by “a great fish,” Jesus said, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40)