Rather Die Than Live - Jonah

by William M. Pickard

Jonah, trying to escape God and God's call to go to Nineveh to save the people there, found himself swallowed by a big fish. Jonah's confinement in the fish is symbolic of the way he continued to box himself in. He was not willing to live the life to which God called him and, indeed, resented God's interest in "foreign" people. As the story ends, Jonah is quite unhappy with God for loving the Ninevites, allowing them to repent and forgiving them for their wickedness. He would rather die than live for a God who expected that he do the same.

140 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1974