if a human is swallowed by a large sea creature then it would take Jonah only a few seconds for the enzymes and stomach acid to suffocate and completely digest him in a matter of hours but the Bible describes Jonah surviving and preying inside a great fish for 3 days and three nights challenging the principles of basic science that deprivation from oxygen can lead to brain death in just 5 minutes you might think and say that God probably just saved him miraculously but the Bible actually does not explicitly State this instead it gives us a hidden
message that Jonah's survival in the fish wasn't just a simple Miracle but a foreshadowing of something far greater therefore this leaves us with two possible explanations for what could have happened to Jonah during the 3 days in the belly of the fish but Jesus said something even more mysterious about Jonah's story that has led many Bible scholars fail to diverge if Jonah himself had a free will in his Simplicity but I will leave that at the end of the video While others believe that God supernaturally preserved Jonah inside the fish which is not strictly biblical
the resurrection theory states that Jonah may have died and was revived when the fish spat him out foreshadowing Jesus's resurrection just as Jesus said it however some argue that the fish itself was a miraculous one since the Bible said that now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah in Jonah 11:17 see the Book of Jonah contains some of the most overlooked prophetic verses in all the Bible especially in Jonah 2 when Jonah actually mentioned that he was in the realm of the dead and yet he was just in the belly of the
fish Jonah 2:1 and 2 says from inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God he said in my distress I called to the Lord and he answered me from deep in the realm of the Dead I called for help and you listened to my cry so why would Jonah pray a prayer as if he had descended to the realm of the Dead if he only was in the belly of the fish see the book of the prophets have always painted a bigger picture since the beginning of time from Abraham who was given a
ram to sacrifice on the same Mountain where Jesus was crucified to Moses who like Jesus performed Miracles over water fasted for 40 days in the desert and faced a king who sought to kill him these stories have always pointed to Jesus 1 Peter 318 acts 2:27 and Psalm 16 all spoke of the anointing Ed one who is Jesus being taken to the realm of the dead but not being left to decay in the grave and similarly Jesus also spoke of himself facing similar struggles and death just as Jonah did foreshadowing the coming messiah in Matthew
12:38 but this prophecy of Jonah even serves as a shadow of something much much greater this is because just as Jonah after being in the belly of the whale was sent to preach to the disobedient city of Nineveh facing God's Wrath so too did Jesus after his death descend into hell there he preached to the disobedient Spirits from the days of Noah as described in 1 Peter 3:18 this parallel highlights how the story of Jonah foreshadows Jesus mission to bring Salvation even to those who had once rejected God although this accurate foreshadowing in the Bible
has impressed many people over the years others also began to question the existence of Free Will in its Simplicity see predestination suggests that all events including human actions are determined in advance Often by a higher power but free will on the other hand is the concept that individuals have the power to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or divine intervention but the question I will leave you with is did God predestined Jonah to refuse listening to him so that God could send a storm and a fish to swallow him for 3 Days
foreshadowing the death and resurrection of Jesus or did Jonah use his free will to disobey God and in doing so accidentally becoming part of a greater plan that unfolded through his choices which is which oh
