I'm the Only One

When last we looked at this book, Jonah had received a call from God to preach a message of warning to the pagan city of Nineveh. Yet he deemed it an undesirable calling, and so he quit the ministry and chose to retire to Spain.

En route, the Lord sent a storm against the ship which culminated in Jonah preaching the gospel to a group of pagan sailors who turned from their sin unto God. Jonah eventually was thrown overboard where a large fish swallowed him and so preserved him alive. Here Jonah was brought to the end of himself.

After all of this he vowed to serve the Lord. Then the fish then spit the prophet back on land where we pick up the story in our passage.