Jonah and the Whale: Lesson Five

God prepares the way out before you need it.

The LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. God had a plan for Jonah in the middle of the sea.

Jonah 1:17 (KJV): Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

When it was time, the LORD spoke to the fish, and Jonah was put out on dry land.

Jonah 2:10 (KJV): And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Jesus pointed to Jonah's three days and three nights as a sign of His own burial.

Matthew 12:40 (KJV): 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.

It is because of the mercy of the LORD that we are not consumed.

Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV): It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Scripture References: Jonah 1:17 Jonah 2:10 Matthew 12:40 Lamentations 3:22-23