God was pleased to use Jonah's preaching unto the effecting of a widespread awakening amongst the people of Nineveh. It even reached into the halls of government. The nature of true repentance is illustrated in Nineveh's repentance. Yet awakening and its influences did not last in Nineveh. Just over a century later Nahum prophesied, "There is no relief for your breakdown, your wound is incurable. Behold I am against you." Nineveh went from sweeping awakening to irreversible decline in just over a century. Has that pattern been replicated in the American Nineveh?
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“ Great Sermon! ” Pastor McDearmon is helpful here in his definition of revival and awakening.(2)I certainly agree with him that the Ninevites experienced many conversions, not just an awakening and an outward reformation. The latter conclusion would fail to consider that an awakening that doesn't issue in a conversion renders the subjects more guilty. More light that doesn't result in conversion means that all reformation is done by mercenary motives, trying to appease a God that the heart is still at enmity against. This would make the Ninevites to have been more culpable. As the theologian A.H.Strong states that the soul is the most guilty the moment before it is regenerated because against more light than ever it is still at war with God.
That is precisely WHY the Ninevites will rise up in judgment against the generation that lived in Christ's day. Matthew 12:41 The Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonah.
