Jonah 2

"Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. 2 And he said:

“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,
And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice." vv.1-2

Read chapter 2.

Does anyone else think of the movie Pinocchio when Geppetto is swallowed by the giant whale and he's alive inside playing the piano? Maybe just me;)  Well there's a couple of difference of what happened to Jonah verses Geppetto.  For one it wasn't necessarily a whale but says "great fish" in 1:17.  Also Jonah wasn't alive kickin' it inside the fish playing the piano, but was dead.  A better person to compare Jonah to is Jesus Christ, because even Jesus compares himself to Jonah.  In Matthew 12:40 Jesus says "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."  So if we believe Jesus died and resurrected after 3 days and 3 nights, this must be true of Jonah.  Jonah died and was resurrected!  This isn't an uncommon thing as we see others resurrected throughout scripture too.  Also notice how Jonah's prayer is all in the past tense.  He's recalling his prayer when he was drowning in the sea and inside a large fish (easily could have happened in seconds) after he's been resurrected and not the present tense.  So what ya thinking now?  Has this changed your previous thoughts of what happened to Jonah?