![]() ![]() How did God react? “God saw their works, that they turned from then evil way and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto them” (Jonah 3:10). ![]() “He laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth,” and actually “sat in ashes.” And then, “he proclaimed a fast…saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God.” (Jonah 3:5-9). When the king of Nineveh heard this, he did not merely “smear” a little bit of ashes on his forehead he did more. Jonah walked into Nineveh and proclaimed, “Yet forty days and and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jonah 2:4). Job, after suffering tremendous loss, sat down in ashes (Job 2:8). The use of ashes has a long, long history in the Bible. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ![]()
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