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?"
Many of the lists of Old Testament types do not include Jonah at all, despite the truth that this book has the unique distinction of being the only one singled out by the Christ himself as having material in it which he designated as typical of himself.  An exploration of this truth reveals some very extraordinary scriptural information.  Since the Lord Jesus himself was typified by the first Israel, there being many particulars in which the old Israel was a type of Christ the true Israel, Jonah is therefore a type of the Old Israel also.  This typical resemblance and correspondence between the old Israel in their wilderness wanderings, for example, and the experiences of the church of our Lord (the body or Christ) during this present period of their probation and suffering, is usually thought of as pertaining merely to Christ's spiritual body, but it also includes Christ.  Israel as a type of Christ may be seen in other comparisons.  Matthew, for example, quoted Hosea, "Out of Egypt have I called my son," applying it first to the coming up out of slavery in Egypt by the Israelites, and in the second instance to Christ's coming up out of Egypt, following the flight of Joseph, Mary and Jesus into that country, during the period of Jesus' infancy  (Matthew 2:15).  The apostolic church pointed out many of such similarities.  As Richardson noted: