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Who Cast Jonah into the Sea?
—by Joe Keim
You ofen hear Christans talk about
how
Jonah was cast into the sea by the
men who ran the ship. And, that of
course is backed up with the following
Scripture in Jonah 1:15.
Then said they unto him *Jonah+,
What shall we do unto thee, that
the sea may be calm unto us? ...
And he said unto them, Take me
up, and cast me forth into the
sea; so shall the sea be calm unto
you: ... So they took up Jonah,
and cast him forth into the sea:
and the sea ceased from her rag-
ing. —Jonah 1:11-15
However, Jonah gives us a SECOND
perspectve, several verses later in
chapter 2.
I *Jonah+ cried by reason of mine
aficton unto the LORD, and He
heard me; ... For thou *Lord+ hast
cast me into the deep, in the
midst of the seas; and the foods
compassed me about: all Thy
billows and Thy waves passed
over me. —Jonah 2:2-3
The answer, in case you didn't catch it,
God cast Jonah into the sea. It’s just
that He used human beings to do the
castng.
Who normally gets the blame for it?
The men on the ship do!
Ofentmes, such as in this situaton, we
are so earthly minded that we forget
the fact that God is Sovereign (King of
kings and Lord of Lords). And as is so
ofen the case, when situatons like
Jonah happen, we jump to immediate
conclusions and think we know all the
“why’s”, “how's” and where's” of
things. Chances are, if we could see
what God sees, we would ofen be
wrong.
Here is a second Bible story that ofen
gets taught with the wrong perspectve
in mind:
As children (and even adults), we are
ofen taught
that it was Joseph's evil
brothers that sold him to Egypt. But,
was it really the evil brothers that…
—turn to page 7 for the rest of the story —