The OT is full of prophecy and foreshadowings of the Savior’s coming, His dying, and His resurrection. But would you expect to find the Gospel message previewed in Jonah’s story of a runaway prophet and a great big fish! Consider Jonah 1:17 and Matthew 12:38-41. We can pull these two texts tightly together because Jesus did. Here’s what we find: God delivers disobedient Jonah to preach to wicked Nineveh (which will repent). Eight centuries later Jesus interprets the reluctant prophet’s preservation-in-the-fish as a sign that symbolizes a greater sign, of a greater prophet, with a greater message of a greater deliverance: the death, burial & resurrection of Jesus the Son of Man. Those who repented at Jonah’s lesser sign will testify in eternity against those who rejected Jesus' greater sign. We'll frame-up this Old Testament-New Testament connection as "two witnesses of a miraculous sign": i.) a sign to Nineveh (Jonah 1:17); ii.) a sign to Israel (Matthew 12:38-41).
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