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?"
VII. Jonah is the perfect type of the uncertainty which clouds the future of fleshly Israel.  The prophetic record in Jonah comes to a dramatic, sudden, and startling conclusion with the issue still undecided, as to whether or not, Jonah will accept God's will.  The history concludes with Jonah still protesting that he would rather die than see the will of God accomplished for the Gentiles; and we simply have no way of knowing either when Jonah changed his mind, or even if he ever did!  This is a perfect type of the uncertainty that must forever prevail with regard to the future of fleshly Israel.  The Holy Scriptures do not prophesy the future conversion of Israel, despite, the popular misunderstanding concerning it; and, at the same time, they do not prophesy that it will never occur.  The wonder which we feel with reference to the ultimate resolution of Jonah's attitude applies with equal force to the antitype, fleshly Israel.