Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
IV. Jonah's opposition to God's will did not end with his deliverance from death, nor with the actual fact of half a million Gentiles "believing in God."  No!  Jonah was still against it, even preferring death to the very sight of such a thing.  This is a perfect type of Israel's continued opposition to God's will, even after the resurrection of Christ, after the conversion of millions of Gentiles.  It was the genius of the apostle Paul that discovered in the very manner of Melchizedek's presentation in Scripture, as having neither beginning of days nor end of life, a glorious type of the Lord Jesus Christ; and one cannot help seeing in this very same phenomenon, the peculiar deployment of this record upon the sacred page, a type of the perpetual hardness of Israel, and thus we interpret it. The Book of Jonah closes with sullen and unwilling Jonah still preferring death to God's outpouring of mercy upon anyone except Jonah and his Jewish relatives!  This is the perfect type of fleshly Israel's rejection of Christ and of Christianity throughout history.