Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible Jonah and the Whale (2003)

Jonah And The Whale is a great adventure storybut is much more than that On its deepest level it is a commentary on Gods willingness to punish sinnersand on His capacity for forgiveness Now you can share this wonderful story with your entire family The story begins when Jonah is a mere boy The forces of the Assyrian Empire have been terrorizing Jonah and his peopleand Jonah quickly grows to hate them He vows that he will one day take his revenge But years later God asks Jonah to go and preach to the Assyrians If Jonah convinces them to renounce their sinful ways God will forgive them Jonah of course wants them to suffer he wants them to feel the Lords wrath And so he foolishly tries to run away Needless to say God catches up with him And when He does Jonah learns a series of important lessons about the power of Gods wrath and the power of His love for all mankind