Yes, he did. Dead as they come.
I am so very tired of hearing grown MEN declare how Jonah did not die. I am also exhausted from seeing the shock and defense on their faces if you dare to care to mention that he really did die.
What is it with grown men that can't get passed a little childhood brainwashing? Are they that chlorine in the water defective?
Never mind how for the life of us Jonah could actually stay alive in the belly of a fish { whale } for 3 days and 3 nights, especially since just mere fish are devoured and dissolved in the natural process, but that my friends is a scientific proof that Jonah most certainly did die, and a given.
Today though, I want to prove it to you from the Bible. Which would be some benefit to you - if nothing else but to secure that the Bible has all the answers. We just have to find them.
Matthew 12
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jonah was in the belly of the whale for 3 days and 3 nights. Don't suppose he had a ton of air with oxygen with him too. Either that he was pretty good at holding his breath.
Seriously though,
Now, Jesus died, and went down into the belly of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights before he was resurrected.
That means he really died. He LEFT his body.
Likewise, Jonah died and left his body too.
But you still might not believe me that he died so I thought I'd add this in here as well:
Jonah 2
King James Version (KJV)
2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
Yeah, so you MEN read your bible, real closely. Don't get up to PREACH until you have.
