Great prophets


A greater prophet than Jonah


A greater prophet than Jonah is that someone must have boasted about Jonah. We need to know how Jonah was called a great man.

The identity of the prophet Jonah is told to us in the Bible in the Old Testament chapter of the Little Prophets. There are surprising things about this prophet in the book of Jonah to tell about this little prophet.


Jonah's thoughts

 The Bible tells us that before Jonah was great, his life was worthless and cowardly. God will call Jonah and destroy the city of Nineveh in 40 days. If God says go and tell the people of Nineveh. Jonah left for Tarnish without going to Nineveh. We can understand the reason for leaving for Tarnish. Jonah was afraid because the people of Nineveh were not the nation of Israel, they were the nation that did not know the God of Israel, and they were not even religiously related. But we can see in the Acts of the Apostles that Judea Christians opposed Peter Cornelius for preaching the gospel to his family and his community. 

 In this way he would cause trouble for his own people and for the Gentiles, and they would kill me, or beat me, and would not let me enter their city, saying, 'The Lord God of Israel has said that he will destroy your city in 40 days.' Thinking that God would not destroy such a large city, he saw Tarnish fleeing in a ship.


Jonah's journey disrupted

But the LORD God caused Jonah to be thrown into the sea, and he was troubled in the sea. The big fish of the sea swallowed Jonah, and Jonah was alive in the belly of the fish. Realizing that he was not dead, Jonah began to pray to Jehovah from the belly of the fish. Three days later the fish brought Jonah ashore. When Jonah understood what had happened, he went to Nineveh and proclaimed the word of the Lord to them. After the proclamation I went away into the city, and sat down in a small shadowy place to see what God would do to the city. He looked at God so that the city would not be destroyed.





The nature of Jonah

How can we say that Jonah was such a great prophet that people in true Christianity would call him an anti-Christian, a man who did not accept Christ, as if he were glorifying Christ? But when Jonah preached the gospel to the Gentiles, Nineveh made the people repent and repent. Nineveh was saved. Thus no prophet proclaimed the gospel of God to the Gentiles as Jonah proclaimed. So Jonah was told of the Gentiles and of Israel, the greatest of all the prophets.


Who is a greater prophet than Jonah?

If we look at anyone who is a greater prophet than Jonah who was a prophet to the people of Israel and to the Gentiles, he is the one who persuaded Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh, to proclaim, and to keep Jonah alive in the belly of the great fish of the sea, lest he should go to Tarnish. He is our Lord Jesus Christ. In John 3:16 God loved the world so much that He did this by His own handiwork of prophets and many others to save the world when He was not in the flesh. We can understand the love of Jesus Christ if we remember what the Bible says. Jonah had a hard time telling the people of Nineveh the good news. Nineveh was not the one who proclaimed love to the people.


The greatness of Jesus Christ

In the 2nd chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, the apostle Paul speaks of his greatness in Jesus Christ, leaving his position of equality with God and leaving to save the world. So God magnified Jesus, and glorified him exceedingly, that the tongue of every one that is upon the earth, and that which is under the earth, may confess that he is Lord of God. The Bible says.

Jesus loved the world so much. He came to save the Israelites and the Gentiles without distinction. Moses told the Israelites in the Law about Jesus Christ. However, because they did not recognize Jesus Christ, they said in Luke 11:32 that he was a greater prophet than Jonah. The apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans that all have sinned. That is why Jesus Christ gave his life for our sins. The Bible says that all who believe that Jesus Christ is Savior will be saved.