draft dodgers were running from the govt. and it was illegal. people are running from the Lord because they are afraid of joining the Army of the Lord.
Draft dodger
a person who illegally
avoids joining the armed services.
running
AWOL- absent from ones post but without intent to desert
why are you running From God?
Jonah 1:3 (ESV)
But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
jon 1 2 ““Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.””
jon 1 4 “But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.”
