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Sep 2025
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Jonah & The Beast II

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# 233 - Jonah & The Beast P. 2 - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, Jonah runs hard from God’s call to show mercy to Nineveh—straight into a storm, a casting of lots, and the belly of a great fish, where rebellion finally turns into prayer. This episode dives into Jonah 1–2 to show how the “belly of the beast” becomes a womb of grace, where teshuvah (return) begins and salvation belongs to the Lord.

Episode 233 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.

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Today's opening prayer is inspired by Jonah 4:11, And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Show Notes:

(02:10) Intro with Yael Eckstein

(03:34) Jonah & The Beast P. 2

(26:19) Reflection with Yael Eckstein

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