 And God called Jonah to take God's message to the people of Nineveh who were renowned for their wickedness and cruelty. And Jonah flat out refused and he got a boat going in the opposite direction from a little place called Joppa. I have been to Joppa. It is a seaport in Israel. And it is a beautiful little spot actually. And so there at Joppa Jonah ran from God. You know the rest of the story. A great storm came.