Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."The way this story is often presented, the people hear Jonah telling them to repent, and do so. But that's not how the story actually goes. Jonah didn't preach a message of repentance that we know of; he preached one of destruction, plain and simple.
The people didn't know that God would spare them if they repented. They simply were told that the city was doomed on its current path. They took a chance that God would hold back if they did repent, but they had no guarantee; they could have been making themselves uncomfortable for nothing.
Shouldn't that be a lesson for us, that even when we don't know what God will do, we should still do the right thing?
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