Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
I fear the great God, Yahweh, the Creator of the universe.Francis Schaeffer says that the term god is being so commonly used by people today without definition, that as we speak of God we need to become more definitive. And we probably should say, "The living God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth," so that we define to people the God that we are talking about, because there are so many gods. And people use the term God so freely, and so liberally to express almost anything.So here he defines Yahweh who made the sea and the land.