Jonah’s storm
Ronald Hanko examines the storm in Jonah 1:4-6 as a demonstration of God's sovereign providence, arguing that this divinely-sent tempest was specifically orchestrated for Jonah's repentance and conversion as well as the salvation of the mariners. Through careful exegesis, Hanko reveals how God's providential control over natural phenomena serves His redemptive purposes for His people, grounding the theological principle in Scripture's own testimony about God's governance over creation.
But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will...
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