For 40 Days – Day 30: Doomsday: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” (Jonah 4:4 ESVUK) When the people of Nineveh received the Doomsday message – God would wipe them out in 40 days – they took it seriously and repented. The messenger, however, was unhappy about God’s relenting and complained to God, showing hypocrisy […]

For 40 Days – Day 29: Doomsday: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” (Jonah 1:14 ESVUK) It’s about a guy who stays in a whale for three days, isn’t it? That’s a very crude […]

For 40 Days – Day 28: Doomsday: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. (Jonah 3:10 ESVUK) The book of Jonah covers one episode in the life of the prophet. The episode, among […]

For 40 Days – Day 27: Doomsday: Content

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows. (Jonah 1:15-16 ESVUK) Nineveh was 40 Days from Doomsday. This was the message that Jonah was tasked with communicating to them. […]

For 40 Days – Day 26: Doomsday: Context

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” (Jonah 1:1-2 ESVUK) God created the heavens and the earth. God made man in His own image and set Him in a garden to look after […]

For 40 Days – Day 25: Man’s End: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Kings chapters 18 and 19 and 2 Kings chapter 2 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.” And he said, “You have asked […]

For 40 Days – Day 24: Man’s End: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Kings chapters 18 and 19 and 2 Kings chapter 2 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and […]

For 40 Days – Day 23: Man’s End: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Kings chapters 18 and 19 and 2 Kings chapter 2 “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat […]