but anyway so they put on sackcloth and it says in verse 6 for word came unto
the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid his robe from I mean
this guy's got the fancy royal garment you know you picture the purple robe
with the white and black fur collar around it you know and he's got the
fancy things I mean he gets when he hears this preaching when he hears the
word of God he takes off his robe he covers him with sackcloth and he sat in
ashes I mean this is the king he's sitting in some gold throne he's got all
his fancy garments the scepter the rings on his fingers you know the big gold
necklace everything I mean this guy gets up and just takes all that off puts on
sackcloth goes and sits in the dirt he's putting dirt on his head like whoa unto
us now you wonder like how could this sermon just reach the whole nation
because when that when the leadership gets right I mean it's that's gonna you
know people are gonna see that that's gonna be shocked I mean can you imagine
if the president of the United States you know whether it was Obama or Trump
or Bush or what you know whichever the president from recent history just
imagine any of these guys just saying like you know what I've heard the
preaching from faith for Baptist Church or you know you know somehow I heard the
preaching from you know pastor Roger Jimenez or I heard brother Corbin
wrestled sermon on Sunday morning you know down in Tucson you know somehow it
would get to the president and what if the president would literally just say
we are our nation is so wicked and we need to get right with God and he's
putting dirt on his head and he's ripping off his power tie and everything
and and basically you know he's begging God for mercy and we need you know we
need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ we need the Word of God you know we've
got to stop the sodomites I mean just all of a sudden he's just like just does
a complete 180 I mean that would really impact a lot of people especially there's
a popular president you know obviously our country is extremely divided there's
like a hardcore polarization where no matter who's president half the people
love him and half people hate him all right all of all the conservatives hate
Obama all the liberals hate Trump you know but but imagine a play there are a
lot of countries in the world though where the leader everybody kind of likes
him or he's kind of popular you know you think about popular presidents in the
past that had a really high approval rating imagine if a guy like that just
got right with God and started preaching the Bible and just started doing
fireside chats with the nation where he's just like ripping face and
preaching the Bible and talking about how we need to repent of all this
wickedness that's what's happening and you know it's not every day that a king
puts off his royal garments and goes and sits in ashes sits in the dirt I mean
look ashes are something that gets you dirtier than anything I mean you could
go roll around in the dirt you know it's even roll around the ashes you're
gonna need more of a shower I mean ashes stain you am I right I mean this guy is
rolling around in soot and ashes and just getting dirty and putting on
sackcloth and saying hey everybody needs to put on sackcloth we are wicked our
nation is wicked we need to get right with God God's gonna destroy us let's
pray for mercy okay and so when he does this he caused it to be proclaimed and
published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying let
neither man nor beast heard nor flock taste anything let them not feed nor
drink he's like no we're gonna fast our pets are gonna fast animals are gonna
fast we're gonna feed the dog we're not gonna feed our cattle we're gonna take
away the cat's water dish we need to get right with God here okay let man and
beast be covered with sackcloth there he's like put sackcloth on the animals
now this is unprecedented about nowhere did God command this nowhere did God say
hey your animals need to fast your animals better be in sackcloth you know
your animals need to get right with God that's foreign description remember this
guy he doesn't know the Bible I mean is this guy a Bible believing Christian no
he doesn't know the Bible he's a heathen but when he hears the preaching of God's
Word God doesn't work in his heart and he ends up through the power of God's
Word through the power of the Spirit of God he ends up just saying we need to
get right and he's just like what do we do what do I do you know look okay
everybody's in sackcloth now what put it on the animals you know what do we do
here right now you can see why God backs off from his threat