And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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… commanded you to do? Verse 5 so the people of Nineveh believed God proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them a change was created in the city in the nation among the people when Jonah obeyed God I wonder what would happen in your family, in your finances, when you obey God. Oh, I felt something right there. I felt a quickening down in my spirit that God's trying to tell somebody, obey him. Be obedient to what God wants you to do. And it produces change. This scripture says in verse number five, the people who never believed God and they proclaimed the fast and they put on sackcloth from the from the greatest to the least of them verse six then the word came to the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes and he and he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his noble saying let neither man nor beast herd or nor flock taste anything do not let them eat or drink water but Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily to God. …
… judgment. But if we fast and pray, God will hold back the judgment that we deserve. Put in your margin, Jonah chapter 3, VERSE 5, so the people of nineva believed God and proclaimed to fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them." Now Jonah had come to Nineveh and he preached judgment, but the people had rather been, have forgiveness. And so they proclaimed a fast. They humbled themselves before God. And God stayed the judgment that Nineveh was due. Jonah chapter three verse ten, and God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. Now listen, and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not. God said to nineva, I'm going to judge you. Nineva said, no, Lord, we will fast and pray. And God says, very well then, I will not judge you. Now nineva was the capital of of, of Assyria. It was ripe for judgment. Put this in your heart and in your mind. God had rather show mercy than judgment. God wants to forgive. God wants to show mercy. Have we crossed a deadline in America? Is it too late for our nation? No, absolutely not. Jeremiah chapter 18, VERSES 7 AND 8. Listen to this, God says, at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to pull down and destroy it, if that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil, I will …
It was for this end, to avert the wrath of God, that Daniel sought God “with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.” This appears from the whole tenor of his prayer, particularly from the solemn conclusion of it: “o Lord, according to all thy righteousness,” or mercies, “let thy anger be turned away from thy holy mountain. — Hear the prayer of thy servant, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate. — o Lord, hear; o Lord, forgive; o Lord, hearken and do, for thine own sake.” (Dan. 9:3, 16.) 8. But it is not only from the people of God that we learn, when his anger is moved, to seek him by fasting and prayer; but even from the Heathens. When Jonah had declared, “Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown,” the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them unto the least. “For the King of Nineveh arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: Let them not feed, nor drink water:” (Not that the beast had sinned, or could repent; but that, by their example, man might be admonished, considering that, for his sin, the anger of God was hanging over all creatures:) “Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?” And their labour was not in vain. The fierce anger of God was turned away from them. “God saw their works;” (the fruits of that repentance and faith which he had wrought in them by his Prophet;) “and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not.” (Jonah 3:4.) …