“And he said unto them, which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I can not rise and give them. I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Luke 11:5-10, KJV)

No, this is not a political piece, God knows we have quite enough of those floating around these days. Have you ever noticed how the Bible always refers to the right side of things? The right side of the boat (John 21:6), the right hand of God (Psalms 110:1, Psalms 118:16, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:13, Psalms 89:13, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 8:1, Hebrews 12:2, 1st Peter 3:22, Acts 2:33, Acts 7:56, Acts 5:31, Romans 8:34) and so on and so on.

Everybody knows the story. Jonah is a prophet who disobeys God, gets swallowed by a gigantic fish, lives inside the belly of this fish for three days and eventually gets spit out onto the shore and reluctantly goes to the city of Nineveh to preach. But what if this is not what this story is actually about. Remember, the Bible is not a book of secular history (despite popular belief) but rather a book of consciousness which is addressed to the human imagination. So, with this in mind, we need to ask ourselves what the real message is here. The Bible is one big allegory from start to finish, so this story of Jonah and the Whale is not what it appears to be on the surface level, there is a secret of reality creation hiding in plain sight within the words.