So you are agreeing that God's will led a resistant man somewhere to do something he did not wish to do?
Glfredrick:
You are not understanding my post.
The Calvinist model is that God compells, and the subject/elect agrees...........He/she has no choice but to agree........
Jonah did not agree.............but God got His will done never the less.
Jonah exercised his "chooser/will" diametrically opposed to God's will, but the Jonah book teaches us that God is omnipotent despite our free-will to choose/refuse.
I.E. Don't you see/understand? Jonah wanted the Ninevites toasted to ash.............God didn't, cause He loved the Ninevites and Jonah didn't seem to be filled with either Godly compassion, nor forgiveness........
In that book we witness man's freewill, that is opposed to God's will, yet Jonah is loved by God as He/God patiently uses Jonah despite his contrary attitude/will towards God's will/plan for Ninevah.
Ninevites were spared................Why? Cause God foreknew the outcome and the Ninevite's hearts and knew they would bow a knee, and not follow the way of Sodom's plight.
Was Jonah of the elect? I'd say so, but he/Jonah sure didn't go with God's will. Jonah was stubborn, and lacked the love and compassion that God extends to all mankind. Was Jonah a useable vessel. Not really. Never the less Ninevah got the message of God's impending judgement, and also received God's overwhelming compassion and forgiveness.
Ninevah in later years, was wiped from the face of the earth............So, what are we to say here. God love'em, and then didn't or they were "elect" and then were removed from the "elect" list?