New Study on Evangelism

EVENGELISM 101

I have heard many excuses for not fulfilling the great commission…….
Or you may ask……. What is this great commission?????

(Mat 28:18) And יהושע came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

(Mat 28:19) “Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in MY NAME.

(Mat 28:20) teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Amĕn.

I can imagine that there are people getting nervous at this point and are worried about what they know, or…. how they talk or….. for that matter what to do ………

So with the scriptures as our training manual, lets take a look at the life of two men.

One is one of the greatest, if not the greatest apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher there ever was.

The other……well, you decide

(Eph 4:11) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

(Eph 4:12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of the Messiah:

Now this individual didn’t have any formal training,

absolutely no cemetery…or rather seminary training……

he was just a Sheppard…

in a desert………

in a land far away.

Turn with me if you would to the Book of Shemoth, or Exodus.
We will start in chapter 1 vs 6

Exo 1:6 And Yoseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exo 1:7 And the children of Yisra’ĕl bore fruit and increased very much, multiplied and became very strong, and the land was filled with them.

Did you know that only about 75 people started in Mitsrayiam (Egypt) when Yoseph had all his family with him?

Exo 1:8 Then a new sovereign arose over Mitsrayim, who did not know Yosĕph,
Exo 1:9 and he said to his people, “See, the people of the children of Yisra’ĕl are more and stronger than we,

It looks like the Blessing of Abraham was working.

Here is the blessing given to Abraham

Gen 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

And of coarse it was handed down generation to generation.

To continue:

Exo 1:10 come, let us act wisely towards them, lest they increase, and it shall be when fighting befalls us, that they shall join our enemies and fight against us, and shall go up out of the land.”

Exo 1:11 So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raʽamses.
Exo 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and grew, and they were in dread of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 1:13 And the Mitsrites made the children of Yisra’ĕl serve with harshness,

Even thou there were records of what Yoseph and his family did, They didn’t care……..

So here we are in Mitsrayim, or Egypt,

Yoseph had died, and a new pharaoh was in power,

The children of Yisreal were multiplying, and the Egyptians were becoming
worried.

They were being tough on the children of Yisrael .

It says “serve with hardness” in other words, they were being very cruel to them.

Exo 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all kinds of work in the field, all their work which they made them do was with harshness.
Exo 1:15 Then the sovereign of Mitsrayim spoke to the Heḇrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puʽah,
Exo 1:16 and he said, “When you deliver the Heḇrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death, but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Now we see that the pharaoh is worried about being out numbered by the Hebrews.

So he institutes a form of birth control.

Unfortunately for him the Hebrew midwives feared YAHWEH!

Exo 1:17 But the midwives feared Elohim, and did not do as the sovereign of Mitsrayim commanded them, and kept the male children alive.
Exo 1:18 So the sovereign of Mitsrayim called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and kept the male children alive?”
Exo 1:19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Heḇrew women are not like the Mitsrite women. For they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”
Exo 1:20 So Elohim was good to the midwives, and the people increased and became very numerous.
Exo 1:21 And it came to be, because the midwives feared Elohim, that He provided households for them.
Exo 1:22 And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Throw every son who is born into the river, and keep alive every daughter.”

Pharaoh was relentless.

He wanted the Hebrews to stop having children,……..But it wasn’t to be so.

In all of this one must see that YAHWEH had a plan….

About 400 years earlier a young boy was sold into slavery so that YAHWEH’S people could become a nation……..

Now,………… physically, that was fixen to happen.

Exo 2:1 And a man of the house of Lĕwi went and married a daughter of Lĕwi.
Exo 2:2 And the woman conceived and bore a son. And she saw that he was a lovely child, and she hid him three months.
Exo 2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took an ark of wicker for him, and coated it with tar and pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the edge of the river.
Exo 2:4 And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
Exo 2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her young women were walking by the river-side. And when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her female servant to get it,
Exo 2:6 and opened it and saw the child, and see, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the children of the Heḇrews.”
Exo 2:7 And his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
Exo 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” And the girl went and called the child’s mother.
Exo 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, then I shall pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
Exo 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Mosheh, saying, “Because I have drawn him out of the water.”

Now what is beginning to happen will set the course for all of mankind, yes even you and me!

Exo 2:11 And in those days it came to be, when Mosheh was grown, that he went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens. And he saw a Mitsrite beating a Heḇrew, one of his brothers.
Exo 2:12 So he turned this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he smote the Mitsrite and hid him in the sand.
Exo 2:13 And he went out the second day and saw two Heḇrew men fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why do you smite your neighbour?”
Exo 2:14 And he said, “Who made you a head and a judge over us? Do you intend to slay me as you slew the Mitsrite?” And Mosheh feared and said, “Truly, the matter is known!”
Exo 2:15 And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and he sought to kill Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Miḏyan. And he sat down by a well.

From most accounts, people say Mosheh is about 40 years old.

Things have become topsey turvy at this point, so lets go over what has happened to date……

He was born,

Put in the river…

Found by an Egyptian princes,

Became a prince of Egypt.

Then killed an Egyptian over serer,

And got out of town to save his own life.

Wow, what an experience to this point….

Let’s continue and see what happens.

Exo 2:16 And the priest of Miḏyan had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock,
Exo 2:17 but the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Mosheh stood up and came to their rescue, and watered their flock.
Exo 2:18 And they came to Reʽuw’ĕl their father, and he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”
Exo 2:19 And they said, “A Mitsrite rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”
Exo 2:20 And he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him and let him eat bread.”
Exo 2:21 And Mosheh agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave Tsipporah his daughter to Mosheh.
Exo 2:22 And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gĕreshom, for he said, “I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.”
Exo 2:23 And it came to be after these many days that the sovereign of Mitsrayim died. And the children of Yisra’ĕl groaned because of the slavery, and they cried out. And their cry came up to Elohim because of the slavery.
Exo 2:24 And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered His covenant with Aḇraham, with Yitsḥaq, and with Yaʽaqoḇ.
Exo 2:25 And Elohim looked on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and Elohim knew!

Well the stage is being set for the biggest show since the Flood.

And we all know how that turned out……..

Even today, in our being, we must have it ingrained in us, that Yahweh will never leave us or forsake us.

As we see here, he remembered the covenant he had with Aḇraham, with Yitsḥaq, and with Yaʽaqoḇ.

Now YAHWEH uses man to work thru….

you, me, the next guy……

HE is looking for those whom love HIM and will trust him.

There are many, many verses in the Tanach alone that talks about trust. But to me this one sums it all up.

Pro 3:5 Trust in יהוה with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

Pro 3:6 Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight.

How can we ever doubt when we have a promise like that!

When we go out to evangelize……. (our way of life) go with this scripture in mind.

Fall back on it and know that YAHWEH is with you.

Now lets get back to our story.

Exo 3:1 And Mosheh was shepherding the flock of Yithro his father-in-law, the priest of Miḏyan. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to Ḥorĕḇ, the mountain of Elohim.
Exo 3:2 And the Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.
Exo 3:3 And Mosheh said, “Let me turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

This would be an amazing sight know matter where you were.

Put yourself there,………what would be going thru your mind!!!!

Exo 3:4 And יהוה saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Mosheh! Mosheh!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Exo 3:5 And He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is set-apart ground.”
Exo 3:6 And He said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ.” And Mosheh hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim.
Exo 3:7 And יהוה said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows.
Exo 3:8 “And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Kenaʽanites and the Ḥittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites.
Exo 3:9 “And now, see, the cry of the children of Yisra’ĕl has come to Me, , and I have also seen the oppression with which the Mitsrites oppress them.

OK………,

Mosheh sees this burning bush and goes to investigate.

The bush is burning, but it isn’t being consumed………

As he nears this burning bush, he hears a voice to remove his shoes……

I would love to know what is going thru his mind at this point. I guess I would have to ask you…….what would you be thinking??????

Ask yourself this. What readied him for this……

How many years in intensive scripture classes did he attend……..

How long had he been in cemetery er….. seminary……

You know the answer to all these questions…….. a big fat 0, nadda, ……

Just a plain ole’ guy like you and me.

So what did YAHWEH see in him????

And what would ready him for what was ahead???

Good question, I think……….

Exo 3:10 “And now, come, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the children of Yisra’ĕl, out of Mitsrayim.”
Exo 3:11 And Mosheh said to Elohim, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim?”
Exo 3:12 And He said, “Because I am with you. And this is to you the sign that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Mitsrayim, you are to serve Elohim on this mountain.”
Exo 3:13 And Mosheh said to Elohim, “See, when I come to the children of Yisra’ĕl and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His Name?’ what shall I say to them?”
Exo 3:14 And Elohim said to Mosheh, “I am that which I am.”1 And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
Exo 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh, “Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.’
Exo 3:16 “Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra’ĕl together, and say to them, ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, of Yitsḥaq, and of Yaʽaqoḇ, appeared to me, saying, “I have indeed visited you and seen what is done to you in Mitsrayim;
Exo 3:17 and I say: I am bringing you up out of the affliction of Mitsrayim to the land of the Kenaʽanite and the Ḥittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
Exo 3:18 “And they shall listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Yisra’ĕl, to the sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, ‘יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews has met with us. And now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness to slaughter to יהוה our Elohim.’

Without catching HIS breath, YAHWEH continues.

`Exo 3:19 “But I know that the sovereign of Mitsrayim is not going to let `you go, not even by a strong hand.
Exo 3:20 “And I shall stretch out My hand and smite Mitsrayim with all My wonders which I shall do in its midst. And after that he shall let you go.
Exo 3:21 “And I shall give this people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And it shall be, that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
Exo 3:22 “But every woman shall ask from her neighbour and from the stranger in her house, objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments. And you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters, and shall plunder the Mitsrites.”

Now YAHWEH has just laid out the whole plan….

from start to finish……

What was going to happen, and how it would happen….

Makes you think that HE just might be in control!

And if you do, what makes you think that HE wouldn’t be in control now??????

Well, Mosheh didn’t quite understand this at all……

First of all, why did you pick me?

And,….. had many reasons why not to pick him…..

Exo 4:1 And Mosheh answered and said, “And if they do not believe me, nor listen to my voice, and say, ‘יהוה has not appeared to you?’ ”
Exo 4:2 And יהוה said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A rod.”
Exo 4:3 And He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent. And Mosheh fled from it.
Exo 4:4 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” – so he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand –
Exo 4:5 so that they believe that יהוה Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ, has appeared to you.”
Exo 4:6 And יהוה said to him again, “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, and see, his hand was leprous, like snow.
Exo 4:7 And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and see, it was restored like his other flesh.
Exo 4:8 “And it shall be, if they do not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the first sign, they shall believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exo 4:9 “And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land.”
Exo 4:10 And Mosheh said to יהוה, “O יהוה, I am not a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
Exo 4:11 And יהוה said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, יהוה?
Exo 4:12 “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say.”
Exo 4:13 But he said, “O יהוה, please send by the hand of him whom You would send.”
Exo 4:14 And the displeasure of יהוה burned against Mosheh, and He said, “Is not Aharon the Lĕwite your brother? I know that he speaks well. And see, he is also coming out to meet you. And when he sees you, he shall be glad in his heart.
Exo 4:15 “And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I am with your mouth and with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do.
Exo 4:16 “And he shall speak for you to the people. And it shall be that he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be an elohim1 for him.
Exo 4:17 “And take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

I think that at this point Mosheh was convinced he was to go……

He may not have actually thought he was the man for the job, but at this point he was going.

I can’t see where Mosheh has show a lot of confidence in what was going on, or what was to happen.

Yet he has resigned himself to the fact that he is going to go.

Let’s continue.

Exo 4:18 Then Mosheh went and returned to Yithro his father-in-law, and
said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in
Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh,
“Go in peace.”
Exo 4:19 And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miḏyan, “Go, return to Mitsrayim, for all
the men are dead who sought your life.”
Exo 4:20 So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey,
and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of
Elohim in his hand.
Exo 4:21 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “As you go back to Mitsrayim, see that
you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand.
But I am going to harden his heart, so that he does not let the people go.

Excuse me………you are going to what…….harden his heart!

Exo 4:22 “And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Yisra’ĕl is My son,
My first-born,
Exo 4:23 so I say to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let
him go, see, I am killing your son, your first-born.
Exo 4:24 And it came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that יהוה met
him and sought to kill him.
Exo 4:25 And Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her
son and threw it at Mosheh’s feet, and said, “You are indeed a bridegroom
of blood to me!”
Exo 4:26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,”
because of the circumcision.
Exo 4:27 And יהוה said to Aharon, “Go to meet Mosheh in the wilderness.”
And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim, and kissed him.
Exo 4:28 Mosheh then told Aharon all the words of יהוה who had sent him,
and all the signs which He had commanded him.
Exo 4:29 And Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the
elders of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 4:30 And Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to Mosheh.
Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people.
Exo 4:31 And the people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited the
children of Yisra’ĕl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they
bowed their heads and did obeisance.

Well, I encourage you to read “the rest of the story……”

all the way to the “Promice Land”.

In that, you will see all the heart ache, and the jubilation
that Mosheh must have felt.

You can see, that YAHWEH took an unsuspecting shepherd,
He molded and grumed him to do what he was called to do…..

Remember YAHWEH said that HE would be his mouth…….

All he needed to do was to do what he was told to do……..

And as long as he did that, he was a success.

Remember, YAHWEH also told him that pharaoh would harden his heart,

And they would go thru many plagues till he would be broken enough to let the people of Yisra’el go.

You need to remember that YAHWEH told him HE would not forsake him…….

Now, to compare that to another Evangelist/prophet. I am sure you have heard all the stories, and red the book of……”Yonah or (Jonah)”………….

Now Yonah was an interesting fellow.

Lets jump in and see just what kind of guy he was!

Jon 1:1 And the word of יהוה came to Yonah son of Amittai, saying,
Jon 1:2 “Arise, go to Ninewĕh, the great city, and cry out against it, for
their evils have come up before Me.”
Jon 1:3 But Yonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of יהוה, and
went down to Yapho, and found a ship going to Tarshish. And he paid the
fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the
presence of יהוה.

Wooooah!!!! Can you believe that!

This guy is a prophet of YAHWEH.

YAHWEH speaks to him directly, away he goes….

BUT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!!!!!

Does that sound familiar?
Has this ever happened to us?????????

Well anyway, back to the story…….

Jon 1:4 And יהוה sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was thought to be broken up.
Jon 1:5 And the seamen were afraid, and each one cried out to his mighty one, and threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Yonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, and he lay down, and was fast asleep.
Jon 1:6 And the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, cry out to your Elohim, if so be that Elohim shall think about us, so that we do not perish.”
Jon 1:7 And they said to each other, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we know for whose sake this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Yonah.

Now Yonah is in real trouble. Not only does “he” know that he is running,……

Now everybody in the ship knows,…..what is he to do?


Jon 1:8 So they said to him, “Please explain to us! For whose sake is this evil upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And from what people are you?”
Jon 1:9 And he said to them, “I am a Heḇrew. And I am fearing יהוה, the Elohim of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Jon 1:10 And the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of יהוה, for he had informed them.
Jon 1:11 And they said to him, “What are we to do to you to make the sea calm for us?” For the sea was growing more stormy.
Jon 1:12 And he said to them, “Take me and throw me into the sea, so that the sea becomes calm for you. For I know that this great storm is because of me.”
Jon 1:13 However, the men rowed hard to bring the ship to land, but were unable, for the sea continued to grow more stormy against them.
Jon 1:14 And they cried out to יהוה and said, “We pray, O יהוה, please, let us not perish for this man’s life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O יהוה, have done as it pleased You.”
Jon 1:15 Then they took Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
Jon 1:16 And the men feared יהוה exceedingly, and brought an offering to יהוה and made vows.

Oh my gosh………. If this isn’t a fine kettle….LOL…. of fish to be in……..

Now what is Yonah going to do?

Then to add insult to injury, check out what YAHWEH does.

Jon 1:17 But יהוה appointed a great fish to swallow Yonah. And Yonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

I have been in some pretty tough spots in my life, but nothing compares to this……

can you imagine…….

I mean how could you even……..well…….breath in there?

Yet,………. we serve a compassionate abba.

And no mater what we have done,……

or where we are,…………

HE does hear our prayer.

Jon 2:1 And Yonah prayed to יהוה his Elohim from the stomach of the fish.
Jon 2:2 And he said, “I called to יהוה because of my distress, and He answered me. From the stomach of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.
Jon 2:3 “For You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
Jon 2:4 “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your eyes. Would I ever look again toward Your set-apart Hĕḵal?’
Jon 2:5 “Waters encompassed me, unto life, the deep closed around me, weeds were wrapped around my head.
Jon 2:6 “I went down to the base of the mountains, the earth with its bars were behind me forever. But You brought up my life from the pit, O יהוה, my Elohim.
Jon 2:7 “When my life fainted within me, I remembered יהוה. And my prayer went up to You, into Your set-apart Hĕḵal.
Jon 2:8 “Those observing false worthlessnesses forsake their own kindness.
Jon 2:9 “But I offer to You with the voice of thanksgiving, I pay what I have vowed. Deliverance is of יהוה.”
Jon 2:10 Then יהוה spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah on the dry land.

Hummmm………

Let”s recap this……

YAHWEH calls me…..

I run from YAHWEH……..

A bunch of guys want me dead, and throw me overboard in to a raging sea……

Then…….

A giant fish swallows me,……..

AND I’M ALIVE, IN HIS BELLY!!!!

So after 3 day’s, I pray to Abba YAHWEH…..

HE hears my cry, and this giant fish vomits me up……

On dry land!!!………

Hollywood couldn’t write a script this good……..

Now as if nothing had happened, Yonah has YAHWEH speak to him a second time………..

Jon 3:1 And the word of יהוה came to Yonah the second time, saying,
Jon 3:2 “Arise, go to Ninewĕh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am speaking to you.”
Jon 3:3 And Yonah arose and went to Ninewĕh, according to the word of יהוה. Now Ninewĕh was a great city before Elohim, of three day’s journey.
Jon 3:4 And Yonah began to go in to the city on the first day’s walk. And he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Ninewĕh shall be overthrown!”
Jon 3:5 And the men of Ninewĕh believed in Elohim, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Jon 3:6 And the word reached the sovereign of Ninewĕh, so he arose from his throne and took off his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 And he proclaimed and said throughout Ninewĕh, “By decree of the sovereign and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, shall taste whatever – let them not eat, let them not even drink water.
Jon 3:8 “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and call mightily to Elohim. And let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jon 3:9 “Who knows whether Elohim does turn and relent, and shall turn away from the heat of His displeasure, so that we do not perish?”
Jon 3:10 And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And Elohim relented from the evil which He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.

Can you believe this……

Yonah gets up…….walks THRU Nineweh for 3 days……..

Preaching repentance in the streets of Nineweh,

Everybody…..I mean everybody including the King turns from there wicked ways,

And then the king makes all the people and the animals put on sackcloth and ashes.

YAHWEH sees there heart, and forgives them……….WOW! that must have been some preaching……..

Those were some inspiring words.

We see that YAHWEH forgave them and HE didn’t destroy them.

So what about poor Yonah……

What happened to him after the city repented and YAHWEH spared them.

Jon 4:1 But it greatly displeased Yonah, and he was grieved.
Jon 4:2 And he prayed to יהוה, and he said, “Please, יהוה, was this not what I said while I was in my own land? This is why I went ahead and fled to Tarshish. For I know that You are an Ěl showing favour, and compassionate, patient and of great kindness, and relenting from doing evil.
Jon 4:3 “And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
Jon 4:4 And יהוה said, “Are you right to be displeased?”
Jon 4:5 Then Yonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a shelter there, and sat under it in the shade, to see what would become of the city.
Jon 4:6 And יהוה Elohim appointed a plant and made it come up over Yonah, to be a shade for his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Yonah greatly rejoiced over the plant.
Jon 4:7 But as morning dawned the next day Elohim appointed a worm which attacked the plant so that it withered.
Jon 4:8 And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Jon 4:9 And Elohim said to Yonah, “Have you rightly become displeased over the plant?” And he said, “I have rightly become displeased, even to death!”
Jon 4:10 And יהוה said, “You felt sorry for the plant for which you have not laboured, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
Jon 4:11 “And should I not pardon Ninewĕh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand beings who have not known their right hand from their left, and much cattle?”

Pretty sad isn’t it……….

I told this story for a reason……..

We can never discern the motive of YAHWEH.

You see, Yonah was mad due to the repentance of Ninewwh………..

he wanted them to be destroyed………..it doesn’t say why, he just had distain for them.

Yet YAHWEH loved them…….

YAHWEH even had mercy on Yonah, and let a large plant grow over him for shade.

Yonah had more compassion for the plant than for human life………..

Then the story ends………we never hear about Yonah again………not a word……..

What is the moral of this story??????

YAHWEH IS IN CHARGE!!!!!

My friends, once we become a follower, we are not our own master.

HIS priorities have now become our priorities.

We have no right to choose our own ways or our own priorities.

We beckon to HIS callings.

We no longer serve ourselves; we become the servant of all.

Two different men, The same calling…….the same ending………….

Mosheh, after leading YAHWEH’S people for 40 years……

never entered the Promiced Land because of disobedience to YAHWEH’S word and anger toward HIS people,

Yonah, the same thing…….

Disobedience to YAHWEH’S word and anger towards HIS people.

Yonah was never to be heard of again…….put on the shelf…….taken out of the game………………

The stakes in Evangelism are high.

We are dealing with life and death.

We don’t give life, and we surely don’t take it away………..

But there is no higher calling than to lead someone to repentance.

We are just a spokesman…….

As YAHWEH said to Mosheh………

Exo 4:12 “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say.”

I leave you where we started……The words of Messiah YAHUSHUA


(Mat 28:19) “Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in MY NAME

(Mat 28:20) teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

Amĕn.