![]() The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.” For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. OK, so where am I going with this? Remember when Jesus refused to give the Pharisees a sign? What was his reply? He said: God had mercy on him and raised him from the dead, and he was able to carry out his mission. So actually, the atheist has a good point Jonah probably did die in the belly of a great fish, or whale. Mark 5:41reads: “Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, “Talitha Kum!” (which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!“) This is the same word Jesus used when he raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead. Lastly, when God says to Jonah “arise” this is the Hebrew word קוּם.Secondly, the Hebrew says that his soul or nephesh fainted, meaning he took his last breath like a dying man.First, the phrases belly of Sheol and the Pit are Old Testament terms that refer to the realm of the dead.Let’s consider these three key points from this text: Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh…” “While I was fainting away, I remembered the Lord…“Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. The earth with its bars was around me forever, but you have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God. “I descended to the roots of the mountains. The great deep engulfed me, weeds were wrapped around my head. ![]() …“Water encompassed me to the point of death. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol you heard my voice… Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish, and he said, “I called out of my distress to the Lord, and he answered me. ![]() Let’s read Jonah’s parts of the prayer from the whale’s belly: Whoever wrote the book of Jonah probably understood that human beings don’t normally get swallowed by whales, let alone survive if they did.īut did Jonah survive? No, and yes. Science tells us what nature does when left to itself miracles happen because nature is not left to itself. Lewis, believed it was the latter), this meme misses the point. Here’s the thing: No matter if you believe Jonah is historical or ahistorical (and some Christians, like C.S. They suggest that removal of the parasites reduces irritation and makes swimming more efficient.Recently I stumbled across what I thought was a rather silly meme: For that reason, the researchers began targeting those areas using a small plastic knife to remove and bag the parasites.Īs time passed, the researchers gathered samples from the same shark more than once, and the sharks seemed to remember the encounters fondly-they began slowing their swimming rate when the researchers approached, and in some cases, stopped swimming altogether, making it easier for the researchers to do their work. The copepods clinging to areas around the mouth and fins are left intact. They also noted that suckerfish, which cling to the sharks, do so as a means to eat the copepods-but tend only to clear copepods on flat, easy-to-reach parts of the skin. In more recent years, they found they could get roughly the same data by collecting copepods (a type of small parasitic crustacean) that adhere to the skin of the sharks. The researchers have been studying the sharks for nearly a decade, collecting samples of skin and tissue samples to learn more about what the sharks might be eating and how deep they dive. Scientists study them to learn more about them and the environment in which they live-the open sea. Their large size, however, poses a risk of injury to other creatures that venture too close. ![]() The sharks are filter feeders and thus pose little risk of biting. They are sharks, not whales, and got their name due to their large size-the largest confirmed size is 18.8 meters in length. The sharks represent the largest known living fish and the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. Marine scientists have been collecting skin and/or parasite samples from whale sharks for many years.
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