A bit of trivia for you ...

barbara_thomas

You can sell tickets to it...

Many use the phrase "You can sell tickets to it ...", so as to assure someone that a certain thing is going to happen, or to assure someone that a certain thing will get done, without ever knowing where that phrase came from. So here's a bit of trivia for you

The early days prophet Jonah was told by God to prophesy that the great city of Nineveh would be overthrown in 40 days. So, after Jonah prophesied that to the king of Nineveh, the king ordered all of his people to give up their sins. However, Jonah had gone to the "outside" of the city, set up a booth, and so to speak, began selling tickets to the event of Nineveh being destroyed

Although the facts are that Jonah's prophecy of forty days never came to pass. A few years later, Nineveh once again turned from God, and it was then totally destroyed. However, the claim that Jonah sold tickets to the event never actually happened. This part of Jonah's prophecy was simply fabricated by modern day "story telling expert" preachers so as to make the Book of Jonah more interesting

The Book of Jonah does however prove that God does not always do as He tells His prophets to prophesy. This fact as well makes it quite clear that modern day preachers simply fabricated the obviously false teaching that "prophets can never be wrong, otherwise they are false prophets

Knowing full well that such is the case: Modern preachers created the false teaching that "If a person even appears to make a mistake in their prophecies, they are a false prophet", to discredit modern day prophets, so as to allow preachers to escape God's scrutiny

Whereas, God's purpose for having prophets has always been to teach, or to otherwise correct the church. That is, to edify it, as an editor corrects the copy in his newspaper. So, with all the lies and obviously false doctrines todays "God loves you, He will never do you harm, in fact He wants you to be rich" churches are teaching, pastors, preachers and teachers really can't AFFORD to have their congregations listening to prophets, for fear of being exposed for their own church's teaching of lies and false doctrines

Moreover, the fact that you hear a prophecy, then it doesn't come to pass "on time", does NOT mean it won't come to pass ... In fact, that usually means nothing more than that your nation and its people have been both warned, and advised, to get their act together, and to KEEP it together. Or else...

O'Coonassa

barbara_thomas wrote: »

[SIZE=+2] Or else ...[/SIZE]

Or else what?

rockmongrel

Ow... my eyes...

barbara_thomas

Prophets do their part, as Jonah did in this case.
Those that listened and heeded to God's warnings lived and those who didn't always ended up dying.
I am just posting a thread, those that need answers can read their Bibles and find them.
Take note, i did not post this in the debates.

PDN

barbara_thomas wrote: »

Take note, i did not post this in the debates.

No, you posted it on an internet discussion board. So people will discuss.

I must say I've never heard the phrase "You can see tickets to it" used in the way you describe. Nor have I ever heard a preacher silly enough to say that Jonah was selling tickets at a booth (I've heard plenty of preachers say other silly things, but that's another story).

This all smells as if you've cut and pasted it from another source, almost certainly in the United States. Am I right?