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?"
III. Jonah was compelled by the Lord, even against Jonah's will, to deliver God's message to the Gentiles.  This is magnificently fulfilled by the fleshly Israel, who this very day, through their glorious Scriptures, are preaching Christ all over the world (against the will of fleshly Israel).  It is the Jewish scriptures which "testify" of Christ, as Jesus said (John 5:39).  In the very nature of things, Jonah found no way to thwart the will of God who laid upon him the necessity of preaching to Nineveh; and, likewise, fleshly Israel found absolutely no way to remove the authentic witness of the truth and supernatural nature of Christianity from their Holy Scriptures.  We agree with DeHaan that: