Jonah’s displeasure
Ronald Hanko examines Jonah's anger at God's mercy toward Nineveh, arguing that Jonah's displeasure reveals his resistance to God's sovereign will in election and reprobation. Through exegesis of Jonah 4:1-4, Hanko demonstrates how Jonah's complaint against God's gracious choice to spare Gentiles while judging Israel reflects a fundamental rejection of God's absolute sovereignty in salvation, a sin shared by all who grudge God's mercy.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?...
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