Jonah being swallowed by a big fish...

[thelord's_pearl]

As the title says... I was wondering, so is it possible to be swallowed by a big fish and still live in the belly? Is the belly empty like that like in Pinocchio? lol! please help me to understand this anatomically, thanks! I want to build my faith and for my faith to increase if I can understand this part. Thanks, I want my knowledge and understanding to catch up with my Spirit.

 

[GISMYS_7]

Who thinks Almighty,eternal God the creator of the universe has a problem creating a fish to swallow Jonah and Jonah live????

 

[thelord's_pearl]

No, I am not making fun of this, I am just asking for help to understand this and wondering about the anatomy of a fish, if that is possible, trying to understand.

 

[thelord's_pearl]

I looked up ''anatomy of a big fish'' and it does seem to look empty in there as if you can just be swallowed up in a big fish and still live in there, lol! but it'll be nice to have more help on this. Thanks!

 

[Lambano]

Modern Day Jonah 1

Modern Day Jonah 2

Here's a couple of reports of men who were swallowed by whales and lived to tell about it.

Of course, when God is involved, all bets are off. God is quite capable of keeping a human being alive inside, say, a large Grouper fish indefinitely.

 

[thelord's_pearl]

Modern Day Jonah 1

Modern Day Jonah 2

Here's a couple of reports of men who were swallowed by whales and lived to tell about it.

Of course, when God is involved, all bets are off. God is quite capable of keeping a human being alive inside, say, a large Grouper fish indefinitely.

interesting!! lol!

 

[thelord's_pearl]

I guess you can end up in the belly (stomach) of a fish, but once you're in the intestines then you can't still be alive, is that right? And how can someone stay for so many days in the belly of the fish and not go down anywhere else where they can't survive anymore? Again, I am not educated in this so answers would be nice.

 

[Randy Kluth]

As the title says... I was wondering, so is it possible to be swallowed by a big fish and still live in the belly? Is the belly empty like that like in Pinocchio? lol! please help me to understand this anatomically, thanks! I want to build my faith and for my faith to increase if I can understand this part. Thanks, I want my knowledge and understanding to catch up with my Spirit.

We don't know that it was a whale. But I don't have a clue how Jonah survived?

However, I picked up an article many years ago about a young girl who was about to drown far from shore, and was picked up by a fish and deposited closer to shore. I still have the article somewhere, I think?

I think the story is really indicated to be miraculous. It sounds no more reasonable than a man who never walked suddenly getting up when Paul saw he had faith and told him to get up.

 

[Deborah_]

Fish have a "swim bladder" connected to the gut which contains air and helps them to control their buoyancy. It's possible that Jonah ended up in that part of the fish's anatomy.
But the Hebrew of chapter 2 suggests that Jonah did actually die (at least for a time). He speaks of being "in the realm of the dead" (verse 2) .

We can only speculate. The story has a prophetic meaning (which Jesus points out in Matthew 12), and doesn't describe anything "normal".

 

[quietthinker]

Fishy business or no, who is that understands how God calls into existence things that previously didn't exist?

For Jonah the fish opened his mouth, for Daniel the lions closed theirs, for Elijah fire came from heaven, for dead Lazarus his ears heard the command of Jesus to come out of the tomb, and for Jesus, he raised himself from the dead as he said he had authority to do.

John 10:18
'No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.'

 

[thelord's_pearl]

I forgot how long Jonah was in the belly of a fish, I think it was 3 days?
I see that he died but then survived after in scripture.
I have more of an understanding now. Thanks
Thanks for the insights, it could've also been a miraculous and abnormal experience.
Anyone else?

 

[Bob Estey]

As the title says... I was wondering, so is it possible to be swallowed by a big fish and still live in the belly? Is the belly empty like that like in Pinocchio? lol! please help me to understand this anatomically, thanks! I want to build my faith and for my faith to increase if I can understand this part. Thanks, I want my knowledge and understanding to catch up with my Spirit.

I'm not a biologist but I don't know why a person couldn't live a little while in the belly of a big fish.

 

[gordon7]

Jonah afterwards still wanted to die as the end of the story shows...


Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
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?


So here is advice for all:


Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

 

[Jericho]

I don't think he survived. He specifically said, “Out of the belly of Sheol [hell] I cried." I think he died and went to Abraham's bosom, the "good" part of hell that was partitioned off for the saved souls until the resurrection of Christ, and they could ascend to heaven. I think God caused the fish to vomit his body up, and he was resurrected like Lazarus.

 

[Hepzibah]

As was the death of Christ, who was resurrected after three days in the tomb, Jonah was a type of Christ, so it is more likely that he died and was brought back to life after that time.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

As the title says... I was wondering, so is it possible to be swallowed by a big fish and still live in the belly? Is the belly empty like that like in Pinocchio? lol! please help me to understand this anatomically, thanks! I want to build my faith and for my faith to increase if I can understand this part. Thanks, I want my knowledge and understanding to catch up with my Spirit.

God supernaturally preserved Him. Just as He did for Daniels 3 friends in the furnace, and Paul when He was stoned and bitten by the snake. God preserves people everyday, near death experiences, recovering from severe emotional trauma, etc. I can relate to some of this myself. i attribute it only to God. Its a miracle.

 

[Webers_Home]

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At some point during his nautical adventure, Jonah was taken to a place
identified as sheol (Jonah 2:2) which he situated at the bottoms of the
mountains. (Jonah 2:6)

Well; the bottoms of the mountains aren't situated in the tummies of fish,
nor are they situated under the sea, no; they're situated deep underground.
So, the only way that Jonah could possibly be at the bottoms of the mountains
while simultaneously in a fish's tummy was for the man and his body to part
company and go their separate ways.

Also, the language of Jonah's recorded prayer strongly suggests that he
underwent a resurrection.

"But out of the pit you proceeded to bring up my life, O Jehovah my God."
(Jonah 2:6)

The Hebrew word for "pit" in that verse speaks of putrefaction. The very
same Hebrew word is located in Ps 16:8-10, which Acts 2:25-31 verifies is
speaking of a dead body.

FAQ: Why should we care whether Jonah was dead or alive?

REPLY: There are missionaries at large insisting human life is entirely
physical, viz: when people die they go completely out of existence. But
Jonah's prayer --not the one he prayed from inside the fish, rather, the one
he prayed while down at the bottoms of the mountains --strongly suggests
that he existed beyond death; which likewise strongly suggests Jesus existed
beyond death too because he likened his own afterlife experience to Jonah's.

● Matt 12:40 . . Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of
the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.

Now when you think about it, Jesus' crucified dead body wasn't laid to rest in
the heart of the earth. In point of fact it was laid to rest up on the surface;
and even then not in the earth's soil but was above the soil in a rock tomb.
So in order for Jesus to be in two places simultaneously, the man and his
remains had to part company and go their separate ways; the same as in
Jonah's adventure.

* Incidentally: Jesus mentioned a confinement in the afterlife consisting of
gates. (Matt 16:18) Jonah mentioned a confinement consisting of bars. (Jon
2:6) The Hebrew word for "bars" indicates a device known as a bolt (as in
dead bolt) which was typically an adjustable beam back then to lock-down
city gates, e.g. Judg 16:3 & Neh 3:13. Although bars in our day are an
antiquated way to secure gates; they're still useful for preventing break-ins
and/or break-outs.
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