by: Craig Allison I have always thought that the book of Jonah ended strangely. In truth, I laugh every time I read the very last verse of that book. God had just orchestrated one of the most dramatic reversals in all of Scripture. A reluctant and severely depressed prophet, swallowed by a great fish, gets vomited up on a beach several days later, and ends up preaching to Israel’s most feared enemy. Against all odds, the entire city of Nineveh repents. God relents from judgme