A prophet is an individual. They were said to be the descendant from heaven, who were called to receive the words of God.
Known to be Gods spokesperson Their purpose was to spread the covenant of God to the nations and the people in Israel.
"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."
- Jonah 1: 17
Prophet jonah and the whale
The Moral of the story
The message of Jonah was simply one warning to the people in Nineveh.
The main message of the story Jonah is that no matter what happens, we can never run from the Lord, because he's always with us. If you do God a good deed, He'll do us the same. He'll be our God and we'll be his children that follow. God will always forgive us no matter how many times we may fault. We just have to realise when we do sin, we not only ask forgiveness from God, but ask forgiveness to those affected by your actions. We also have to understand that every action has consequences.
The prophets
Major prophets
Isiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
Lamentations
Minor Prophets
Baruch
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Noah
Abraham
Moses
The meaning of Major and Minor Prophets is not classified by each of their significance but the length of the books.