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Unlike most prophetic books in the Bible, Jonah is mostly narrative. It does not contain lengthy prophetic messages, but rather it is a record of events—dramatic, action-packed events. The lessons it teaches can effect one for eternity! Butler examines Jonah in the following chapters: • Duty • Disobedience • Disturbance • Detection • Dialogue • Debarkation • Disbelief ...

actions reveal it emphatically. Our own devotional habits will also reflect whether we are living an obedient life or not. Disobedience will produce a decline in our interest in reading and studying the Word of God and in praying. These things, as we noted above, reflect the presence of God; and we will flee from them when we walk in disobedience. Our church attendance will oftentimes reveal our obedience or lack thereof, too. Disobedience does not like the presence of God; and since worship speaks
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