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Is It Too Late for Our Nation? When we think of the prophet Jonah in the Bible, we usually think of him in the belly of a whale. (Actually, it was not a whale, but a large fish.) He got there by trying to run away from God, which is never a good idea. God wanted him to go to the city of Nineveh and cry out to the people living there against their wickedness. Jonah didn’t want to do that, so he caught a ship going in the opposite direction. It’s quite a story and you can read all about it in your Bible, but he ends up getting thrown overboard by his fellow travelers into a stormy sea and it looked like the end for the reluctant prophet. But the Bible tells us God had “prepared” a “great fish” to save Jonah’s life and take him back in