Jonah's Perplexing Assignment

Jonah's Perplexing Assignment

Jonah 1:1-4

Introduction to the Book of Jonah

Date: Around 550 B.C. (Post-Exile)

Act 1: Stage-Setting Episode (1:1-4)
Act 1: Pre-Peak Episode (1:5-17)
Act 1: Peak Episode (2:1-10)
Act 2: Stage-Setting Episode (3:1-3)
Act 2: Pre-Peak Episode (3:4-10)
Act 2: Peak Episode (4:1-4)
Act 2: Post-Peak Episode (4:5-11)

I. The LORD commissions. (Vv. 1-2)

II. The Prophet disobeys. (V. 3)

III. The LORD rebukes. (V. 4)