UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 32 OF 39
Jonah
Yonah — “Dove”
MINOR PROPHETS
- Author / Era
- Jonah · approx. 785–760 BC
- Setting
- From Israel to a storm at sea, to the belly of a fish, to the streets of Nineveh.
- Key Figures
- Jonah, the sailors, the great fish, the Ninevites
- Watch For
- Jesus calls this story “the sign of the prophet Jonas” — three days, three nights, then resurrection.
- Connects To
- Matthew 12:39–41 · Luke 11:29–32 · Acts 10
Key Verse
“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
Points to Christ: The Greater Jonah
Buried three days, raised the third, and the Gentiles came running.
For the Fire Pit
The earliest Christians painted Jonah on their burial walls. They knew the fish was not the point. The third day was.
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