“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. If we knew everything like God, how could we handle the vastness of this knowledge? So, maybe, God does let us know some of the details of His future plans, and He only reveals what He wants us to know. God knew and had compassion on Nineveh because He created them and cared for them ( Jonah 4:10). But God explains later that Jonah has no right to be angry at Him for saving Nineveh. Maybe he was so mad because his people in northern Israel were destroyed and God saved the people that destroyed that part of Israel.
#Abilty to see glims of the future full#
Jonah was angry and full of so much bitterness that he wanted to perish. When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, and it withered. Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant. Then the Lord God appointed a plant, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city. Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. So, how did Jonah know that God would react this way?Īs we continue to read through Jonah chapter 4:5-7, we see that God sets a physical example of why God did not destroy Nineveh at that time:
In Jonah 4, Jonah knew God would be merciful and full of unfailing love towards Nineveh’s repentance. He was so engulfed with bitterness and anger from how Nineveh treated the Israelites (Nahum and Jonah 3). Jonah was fleeing from what God had commanded Him to do. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord ( Jonah 1:1-3). Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. For this reason, let us trust God to reveal His plan to us as He wills and let the future be completely in God’s hands. Our seeking anything other than God is a storm that we shouldn't want to walk into. Our seeking for the future can lead us to be lost in a sea of mysteries. The future is where most of our eyes seek, but sometimes seeking the future leads us astray. In the book of Revelation, the Bible speaks about how Jesus will come back and how the enemy will forever be destroyed. In the Book of Isaiah, God speaks about Jesus in chapters 52 and 53. All throughout the Bible, God speaks about the future.
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