King's Business - 1922-04

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Look Out— Little Mani

This is the professor’s whopping whale story, as it came to us: There was no Jonah and no whale, but there were two ancient tribes one called the “ Jonah tribe” and the other, the “ whale tribe. These tribes were constantly at war with each other. Finally the .whale tribe eliminated the Jonah tribe, and from this event came the story that the whale swallowed Here is the joke,—that the professor is able to make people really be­ lieve this to be true, but here, too, is the sorrow of it all: O u r L o r d Jesus Christ set His seal to the story of Jonah and the great fish and used it to illustrate the most significant epoch in His life,—-His bodily resurrection from the tomb. (Matt. 12:39, 40.) “For as Jonah was throe days and three nights in the whale s beuy, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heartof the earth. The Scribes and Pharisees sought a sign from Him. He has but one sign for them, and repeats the same message in Matthew 16:1-4. | How about the men of Nineveh? Did they repent when the “ whaleites defeated the “ Jonahites” ? Did our Lord use a legend? Did the Jews be­ lieve in the story of Jonah, or did they think it was a joke of our Lord s? Will the men of Nineveh rise up in the judgment against these wonderful Twentieth Century professed professors who play the fool as they seek to play upon the credulity of the poor people? When will God’s people arise in their wrath and denounce the cheap charlatans who, for gain, dare to gainsay the truth of our Lord’s own words? He did spend three da^s in the heart of the earth; and He did come forth in a glorified body, recognized by His own, who worshipped Him; and He did ascend on high; and He is, in His glorified body, now waiting for the

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