Listen to God's Voice

And then in the story of Jonah and his message to Nineveh, we read how he walked into the city, a very wicked, violent, evil city, and he proclaimed that in forty days the city would be destroyed. Now that was a message from God. How did the inhabitants of Nineveh respond?

“Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. He caused the whole city to fast, even the animals fasted.”

And it says at the end of that,

“Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.”

A Gentile city, notorious for its wickedness, heard the message of one prophet once, repented with fasting and mourning, and God spared the entire city.