Edited sentence: "</blockquote> Jonah's story teaches us about obedience, willingness of spirit, gratitude, compassion and God's mercy.During this period of history, Assyria was a powerful, evil nation and Israel's most dread enemy.God here's his prays and has the whale spit him out onto shore.God spoke to Jonah and told him to go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, and preach.He finally confess that he disobeyed God and to throw him over.He goes and the people repent.He is given a second chance to do what he was suppose to do in the beginning.He is saved from drowning.He was suppose to travel to the capital of Assyria.He was supposed to tell the Ninevites to repent or suffer the consequences of their evil behaviour.Here is the great mercy God had for Jonah.Jonah instead has other ideas and heads to Tarshish, Spain.Jonah is now on the boat heading to Tarshish, Spain when all of sudden a storm massively grows which toss's the boat around.Jonah seats in the belly of the whale for three days where he prays and realized how thankful he is that God spared his life.Jonah was a prophet from Galilee.So they do, but at the same time a big whale swallows him