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<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2167S0803.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 938 Download Link --> <p>Jonah 1-2 We are in the Exile Stream reading from the New Living Translation. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Stream | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Lord, don't let us even think of running away from our calling.  You have joyous things planned for us, regardless of what we think.  Amen.</blockquote> <div>This book is far beyond a fish story about a rebel who has a grumpiness problem.  It is a true story that parallels Christ arriving. It is kingdom operatives in full force.  There is evangelism, transformation, and triumph that is truly found in biblical proportions.</div> <div>1 - Jonah was raised in a small village very near to where Jesus OF NAZARETH was raised.  Had they been contemporaries as young boys, they would have been able to trot to each-others' homes in a manner of minutes.  Nonetheless, the king during Jonah's life was Jeroboam II, whose time was 793-753 B.C. that we read of in The Kings.  Israel is late in its time during Jonah - remember they were in a 190 year long death spiral of ungodliness 920 - 722 B.C.  They lost territory to Assyria decade after decade. However during Jonah&Jeroboam II 's time they were 'on a brief rise' and gained some of the territory back.</div> <div>God calls him to go and to preach to Nineveh and ...... "<span style="font-size: large;">God are you serious</span>?!" Jonah is <strong>livid</strong> at the assignment. Nineveh was a city in the middle of its 300-year prominence that ran from 900-605 B.C. They were ghoulishly diabolical. Their practices and tactics were fiendish and grisly to put it mildly. Assyria's invasion and decimation of Israel in 722 B.C. just a generation later, is a scenario that Hollywood, even today with all its tendency to "push t