Obama and the Whale
Most of us have heard of the story of Jonah, recounted in the Bible, in the Book of Jonah. Jonah was a great prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel. Jonah was told by the Lord to go to Nineveh, a pagan Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. At that time, Nineveh, the Capital of Ashur, “Assyria,” was Israel’s greatest enemy. It was a wicked place. It would be like walking into Mosul today, with ISIS in charge. In fact, that’s exactly where Mosul is today – in and about the ancient city of Nineveh....
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