Jewish Prophets
Jonah
Prophet to: Foreign Nation
Quick History
Sent to warn the inhabitants of the Assyrian capital of Ninevah about God's Judgement. Jonah fled his call because it was the Assyrians who were destroying the Jews. As he was escaping on a ship bound for Tarshish a great storm arose. The sailors concluded that this tempest came on account of Jonah so they threw him overboard. He was immediately swallowed by a great sea monster prepared by God. Jonah repented in the bowels of the creature and was released the third morning. He went to Nineveh and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" (Jonah 3:4)
As a result of his preaching the people changed their ways and God spared the city.
Joel
Prophet to: Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Kings: Uzziah
Quick History
Joel prophesied during a devastating plague of locusts, warning all of the inhabitants of Israel of devastation that would sweep across the land in the days soon to come. He called for a season of fasting, mourning, and repentance. Joel likened the locusts to the greater judgement that would come on "the Day of the Lord" in the last days. (Joel 1:15, Joel 2:11)
He also gave a message of hope and prophesied of great blessings that would follow and the glories of the Messiah's kingdom.
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