Post by Jo Smith on Feb 12, 2023 13:02:41 GMT -5
Sign of Jonas
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas 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.
When Jonah, asa Jonas, was in the ship and the storm came up, threatening to sink the boat, this was showing the troubling times when the Jews were attempting to kill Jesus.
When they threw Jonah into the sea and the whale swallowed him, this is clearly showing the death of Jesus and the time he was in hell. Jesus himself said this.
So, when the whale vomited Jonah up onto the shore this is showing the resurrection of Jesus.
Nineveh was set for destruction due to their sins.
But they repented at the preaching of Jonah and were spared. This is showing that after Jesus was resurrected the preaching of the gospel saved the people who repent.
Jonah 1: 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
This is telling the world to ‘cast’ Jesus into the Sea, or that old law system or the OT people, via the preaching of the gospel, and the sea will be calm to them or no longer destroy them.
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
This is showing that they tried many things, other than throwing Jonah into the sea, to save themselves: they killed animals; they burned incense; they paid tithes, etc. But see, none of these things could save them. They finally had to crucify Jesus.
If you never see anything in Scripture except the ‘story’ you are not seeing it as spiritual. This is the spiritual revelation of Jonah.
15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.
When they saw the ’sea’ be still to them then they realized that their idols were of no value and they then feared the Lord and began to worship Him.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
This is one of the prayers of Jesus while he was in hell. IT is recorded in Psalm. Now pay close attention to verse 8:
Lying vanities are your idols; your Santa your bunny rabbits, your skeletons, your Xmess trees your valentines, etc. All of these things are lying vanities. If you observe them, means adore them and do them, you forsake your own mercy! Is it worth it to you? You had better deal with this soon, for time is running out.
3 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
There is something very important about the SECOND TIME. I considered placing that in with this message, but decided not to. It is such an important message that it needs to be a message all its own.
This second calling to Jonah is the one that gets the job done. Very important.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Forty is the number of judgment or a great change. Their judgment was changed because they repented and humbled themselves to the Lord of Heaven and Earth.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
This is what it would take for our nation/world to now be spared the wrath of God. Will it happen?
This may seem to be a great departure from this subject, but I will show you a great connection.
1Cor 15: 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Adam is the old serpent/satan. No matter how many deny this it is still the truth.
Ezekiel 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Ezekiel 31:17
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
This is speaking of everyone being under the shadow of old Adam/humanity. This is the SHADOW OF DEATH. As in Adam all die. How can you deny this?
Now to show you the connection with Jonah.
Jonah 4: 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
Sitting under booths is part of the OT law system. See, Jonah is still trying to resort to the OT law system but God is going to show him a great change.
See, Jonah is still under the SHADOW of old Adam.
6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
A marvelous thing is shown here: The Lord God which is Jesus, prepared another covering for Jonah to deliver him from his grief.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
The NEXT DAY, AFTER that day of Law. Aw yes. Now this revelation is going high: God which is the Father, prepared a worm when THE NEXT DAY came, and it SMOTE the gourd that it withered. The new covering is the blood of Jesus; not animals. The Next DAY IS GRACE. This WORM is Jesus. He smote that OLD LAW SYSTEM or the false covering of Adam.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
East shows going away from a place or thing. This EAST wind is the coming of the BAPTISM of the Holy Ghost. Yes, it is now down to Pentecost.
So, who fainted? Those that did not wait on the Lord. They wished to die. Why? So they could be renewed and born again, without sin and death. HE said IT IS BETTER FOR ME TO DIE. Yes, better for the old man, Adam, to die and Christ Jesus be born into us.
Wow, what a glorious message. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for being my teacher.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Peter, are you glad to die? Yes, Lord thou hast the words of eternal life. You had pity on the gourd but It was not a good or lasting covering.
So I have pity on those who cannot discern right or left. Sixty thousand persons; Sixty the first number leading up to the other two numbers of the times that old Adam attempts to hold dominion over this earth.
By: Jo Smith…. This day of February 12, 2023.
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas 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.
When Jonah, asa Jonas, was in the ship and the storm came up, threatening to sink the boat, this was showing the troubling times when the Jews were attempting to kill Jesus.
When they threw Jonah into the sea and the whale swallowed him, this is clearly showing the death of Jesus and the time he was in hell. Jesus himself said this.
So, when the whale vomited Jonah up onto the shore this is showing the resurrection of Jesus.
Nineveh was set for destruction due to their sins.
But they repented at the preaching of Jonah and were spared. This is showing that after Jesus was resurrected the preaching of the gospel saved the people who repent.
Jonah 1: 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
This is telling the world to ‘cast’ Jesus into the Sea, or that old law system or the OT people, via the preaching of the gospel, and the sea will be calm to them or no longer destroy them.
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
This is showing that they tried many things, other than throwing Jonah into the sea, to save themselves: they killed animals; they burned incense; they paid tithes, etc. But see, none of these things could save them. They finally had to crucify Jesus.
If you never see anything in Scripture except the ‘story’ you are not seeing it as spiritual. This is the spiritual revelation of Jonah.
15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.
When they saw the ’sea’ be still to them then they realized that their idols were of no value and they then feared the Lord and began to worship Him.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
This is one of the prayers of Jesus while he was in hell. IT is recorded in Psalm. Now pay close attention to verse 8:
Lying vanities are your idols; your Santa your bunny rabbits, your skeletons, your Xmess trees your valentines, etc. All of these things are lying vanities. If you observe them, means adore them and do them, you forsake your own mercy! Is it worth it to you? You had better deal with this soon, for time is running out.
3 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
There is something very important about the SECOND TIME. I considered placing that in with this message, but decided not to. It is such an important message that it needs to be a message all its own.
This second calling to Jonah is the one that gets the job done. Very important.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Forty is the number of judgment or a great change. Their judgment was changed because they repented and humbled themselves to the Lord of Heaven and Earth.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
This is what it would take for our nation/world to now be spared the wrath of God. Will it happen?
This may seem to be a great departure from this subject, but I will show you a great connection.
1Cor 15: 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Adam is the old serpent/satan. No matter how many deny this it is still the truth.
Ezekiel 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Ezekiel 31:17
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
This is speaking of everyone being under the shadow of old Adam/humanity. This is the SHADOW OF DEATH. As in Adam all die. How can you deny this?
Now to show you the connection with Jonah.
Jonah 4: 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
Sitting under booths is part of the OT law system. See, Jonah is still trying to resort to the OT law system but God is going to show him a great change.
See, Jonah is still under the SHADOW of old Adam.
6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
A marvelous thing is shown here: The Lord God which is Jesus, prepared another covering for Jonah to deliver him from his grief.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
The NEXT DAY, AFTER that day of Law. Aw yes. Now this revelation is going high: God which is the Father, prepared a worm when THE NEXT DAY came, and it SMOTE the gourd that it withered. The new covering is the blood of Jesus; not animals. The Next DAY IS GRACE. This WORM is Jesus. He smote that OLD LAW SYSTEM or the false covering of Adam.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
East shows going away from a place or thing. This EAST wind is the coming of the BAPTISM of the Holy Ghost. Yes, it is now down to Pentecost.
So, who fainted? Those that did not wait on the Lord. They wished to die. Why? So they could be renewed and born again, without sin and death. HE said IT IS BETTER FOR ME TO DIE. Yes, better for the old man, Adam, to die and Christ Jesus be born into us.
Wow, what a glorious message. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for being my teacher.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Peter, are you glad to die? Yes, Lord thou hast the words of eternal life. You had pity on the gourd but It was not a good or lasting covering.
So I have pity on those who cannot discern right or left. Sixty thousand persons; Sixty the first number leading up to the other two numbers of the times that old Adam attempts to hold dominion over this earth.
By: Jo Smith…. This day of February 12, 2023.