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Turn to Jonah chapter two, verse one. Jonah chapter two, verse one. Now Jonah's swallowed by this great fish or whale. The Bible says, Jesus said it was a whale. So Jonah was swallowed. And you know, how did he survive those three days and three nights? Well, obviously, God allowed him to survive. So, but he was in affliction. You know, I'm sure he had to deal with some stomach acid and some weeds and whatever else. I mean, it probably isn't a good feeling to be swallowed by a whale, you know? They're pretty big, they're pretty, you know, they probably got bad breath. You know, when I was a kid when I was like probably four years old, I had a dream that Jaws ate me. I must have saw a commercial on television or something like that, but Jaws is a great white shark, okay? But in the dream that I had, I dreamed that I was going to hell. And so that, you know, why would I think that? Like, it's not like I went to church. How would I know that? Why would, how would I draw that parallel? Why would that come into my brain as like a three or four year old kid? You know, but I woke up screaming. I remember the feeling was hot. I remember being, you know, I feel like that's just like the initial point where God just kind of started to work with me a little bit. And you know, how did I know even what hell was? How did I know? I mean, how did I know I was in hell in this dream as a small child? I mean, I think that, you know, maybe we just forget things that God does to kind of move us along that path, but I never have forgotten that dream and I was a little kid. I'm old now and I still remember it, so. But compare it, I mean, so it's easy for me to see the parallels here with Jonah because he was swallowed by a whale and like in my dream, I was swallowed by Jaws and thought, and I felt like I was in hell. It was dark. You know, he didn't chomp me up or anything. And he just swallowed me, you know? And I just remember going into his mouth and like it was darkness. But that's what the Bible explains that hell is like darkness. I'm not saying like I saw some vision or something, okay? I mean, it was a dream. I can't explain how I knew what hell was, though, so I think that that's pretty interesting. But anyway, Jonah chapter two verse one says, Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly and said, I cry by reason of my affliction unto the Lord and he heard me out of the belly of hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice. So right away, I mean, obviously the Old Testament shows us pictures and parallels of Christ. Well, you know, Christ was in affliction. Christ was in hell. It says by the reason of my affliction, you know, he cried out of the belly of hell. He says out of hell. Thou heardest my voice, for thou hast cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas. You know, and like I said, it's going back and forth to the story of like Jonah. It's, you know, it's definitely talking about Jonah also, but it says, for thou hast cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas and the floods compass me about all the billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight, that I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compass me about even to the soul. The depth closed me round about. The weeds were wrapped around my head. And then, you know, in verse six, you know, it says I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with her bars was about me forever. So here you have like, it's talking about the bottoms of the mountains. Like that's, you're not gonna get to the bottoms of the mountains by being in some, you know, small sea or something. And it says that, it says his bars were about me forever. So was Jonah in the whale forever? No, he was in the whale for three days, right? So just like Christ was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly. So it's a comparison. It actually talks about, Jesus Christ talks about that comparison between Jonah as, you know, he said, I'm not gonna show you a sign except for the sign of Jonah the prophet. And so he compares the three days and three nights that Jonah went through to the three days and three nights that he was gonna go through. It says, yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God? So God rose Jesus Christ from the dead. The Holy Spirit rose Jesus Christ from the dead. Christ took his life back because all three are God, amen? It says, thou has brought my life up from corruption, O Lord my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remember the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee and to thine holy temple they that observed lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. And the Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. So here's the picture. Christ is praying to get out of hell. Christ is raised up from the dead and the picture of that is, Jonah is also praying to the Lord to get out of this fish, to get out of this whale, and then the Lord spake unto the fish and the fish vomited him out onto dry land. So after three days in the whale's belly, he rose essentially from the dead because if he gets swallowed by a whale, I mean, you're pretty much gonna die, right? But God kept him there and it's as if he was there forever. And that's why I think that when Christ died and went to hell for three days and three nights, it's as if he experienced that forever.