Day: November 13, 2023

Monday, November 13, 2023

“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40 KJV).

Let us consider one of the most misunderstood and most ridiculed accounts presented in the Holy Bible….

Natural laws govern the world around us. They determine the size and shape of matter; dictate the amount of force, time, and distance required to set objects in motion or cause them to rest; control the chemical reactions necessary for physical bodies to live and function; influence our weather conditions and climate; provide us land on which to live, oxygen to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink; to name just a few of these principles in action.

Such laws do not suddenly or randomly appear. Their existence automatically demands a Lawgiver, an intelligent mind behind those rules. As Bible believers, we understand this Great Lawgiver is the Creator God—known as the LORD God, JEHOVAH God, or the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the origin of the heaven and the earth and all things therein, having formulated even the very basic principles that led to their construction as well as their maintenance. What that means is that He existed prior to those laws, and though we are subject to them, He is not obligated to follow them because He is outside of them or isolated from them.

The first objection mockers raise against Jonah is that they deem it preposterous—impossible—how a man could live three days and three nights in a whale’s (or fish’s) belly. If God wanted, He could have quite easily kept Jonah alive for three days and three nights in the whale’s (or fish’s) belly. What is impossible for us is possible with Him. Remember, we cannot create life, yet it exists (are we not lifeforms?!), so we know life can be and was created (though impossible for us, it is possible for Him). However, the Scriptures seem to suggest Jonah was not actually alive all three days and three nights. We will take yet another look into God’s infallible Book….