Decades back, I was inspired by a book titled “Where are the Elijahs of God?” by Leonard Ravenhill. I woke up to an ignored reality; I wrote an article in a local magazine with gleanings from the book. It was about the people of God who lay lethargic with no passion for the assignment God has sent them with and the huge responsibility God has bestowed on them.

Here are the Jonahs of God! is about the so-called people of God (Oh No in this book) and their indifference towards the perishing world even though they have an unambiguous mandate from their Lord to evangelise unto the ends of the earth. And the best historical character in the Bible that perfectly reveals today’s believers’ attitude towards the lost is Jonah, the Jewish prophet, a man full of selfishness, ego and apathy.

When we look around with the spirit of discernment (it is a gift of the Holy Spirit and is all the more essential during these end-times), we see self-made preachers, deceitful prophets and money-seeking evangelists who have little or no compassion on the billions of souls that are lost and are still ignorant about the difference between what matters the most and what are vain passions. And the believers who need to reveal Christ and God’s love through them to the world all the while warning them about the impending judgement of the ungodly, are proud, passive and lazy, keeping such masses in the dark as to what is true heavenly blessedness and what is deceptive, worldly, and destructive.

My intention of writing this satire is to stop believers and ministers of God who are flowing with the tide not giving a thought as to why they lead such an insensitive life unstirred by the pounding heart of God and are un-empathetic towards the valuable souls that are rushing towards a Godless destiny at a frenzy pace. I want to redirect them to the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you wake up to the prompting of this book and your heart is stirred up too, I have met my objective. -Author.

Additions in the Online version:

Jonah's attitude might have been slightly different - he might have been sent to an enemy nation to preach the warning message. However, Oh No is not sent to any enemy nation but to his own people - the entire mankind. So, Oh No's attitude is more apathy than enmity.

Again, why Oh No, a name change? I wanted to be sarcastic with even the name. Modern-day Jonahs' reaction would be a typical "Oh no, not me. Let God send somebody else; I will pursue my own agenda". Or, "Oh no, why is God behaving like this?" "Oh no, why is God treating me like this?" "Oh no, I knew even from the beginning this would happen" -Author.

(I had to add this paragraph in the online version of this book because I am unable to find this 'italics' feature in the running text that comes from a database).

All text between // double slashes // are comments I am making about the content dealt with, preceding it or following it. I have used italics to differentiate this from the others in the printed / pdf version of this book. This is done to show how modern day Oh Nos are identical to the historical Jonah of the Bible and how the content is relevant for the modern times.