Jul 11 2008
The Biggest Fish Story of All Time
But it isn’t what you think it is!
Almost everyone has heard the story of the huge sea creature that swallowed Jonah, and about Jonah’s pitiful prayer for deliverance while inside its stomach (Ch. 1-2). But the real fish story takes place in chapter 3. To understand this, consider an event that would transpire some seven centuries later in northern Israel:
“And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Pater, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fisher of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him” (Mt. 4:18-20).
In this passage Jesus taught that the ‘fish’ God is looking to catch are sinful men, and the real ‘fishermen’ are soulwinners! In Jonah 3, after the prophet’s preaching, history’s greatest revival took place. In other words, Jonah caught more ‘fish’ in his net than ever before—thus we have the greatest fish story of all time!