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Originally Posted by Zog Has-fallen
Jonah 3:4
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
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When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. --
Jonah 3:10 (ESV)
That was poor phrasing on my behalf. You are absolutely correct it didn't literally happen, but Jonah did speak what he was told to speak. God just happened to see the city's repentance and changed His mind.
So describe for me what it means to be a prophet in training; one that often fails. What exactly does that look like?