Waterfall ---this is just my thoughts on this
I believe they did repent because they believed God would do as He said -------so yes they repented because they had Faith in God's word coming to pass -----verse 5 says they believed God ------ as far as Faith building Blocks go -----they had God who dealt with the people Himself -----so God can change one's heart ---and His word which Jonah delivered apparently did that ----I am sure these People had many personal visions of God's word coming to pass -----as it says in
Isaiah 55 :11 ---11
My word, which comes from my mouth, is like the rain and snow.
It will not come back to me without results.It will accomplish whatever I wantand achieve whatever I send it to do.”
Jonah 3 GW
Nineveh Turns from Its Wicked Ways
Then the Lords poke his word to Jonah a second time. He said,2 “Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people the message I have given you.”
3 Jonah immediately went to Nineveh as the Lord told him. Nineveh was a very large city. It took three days to walk through[
a]it.4 Jonah entered the city and walked for about a day.
Then he said, “In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed.”
5 The people of Nineveh believed God. They decided to fast, and everyone, from the most important to the least important, dressed in sackcloth.
6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.7 Then he made this announcement and sent it throughout the city:
Your Quote ----How wouid you feel if Chansen and Pavlos make it into heaven and you don't? Is that even possible
Well Waterfall ----anyone can get into Heaven if they believe have Faith that Jesus Christ died and was resurrected and shed His Blood to cover all sin for all people forever and have the Holy Spirit they will have eternal life -------- if Chansen and Pavlos were to get into Heaven
without receiving Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour ---then under the New Covenant God would be a lair and a respecter of persons ---- and God says This about that ---God never varies from His word ------and
God is not a respecter of persons but is a respecter of His word -----
Acts 10:34
Then Peter began to speak:
"I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
and Jesus made ti very clear in John 3 ----you must be born again ----so there is no chance that God will allow sin in heaven ----His Kingdom is a Holy Place and He states in Revelations 21:27 ---nothing unholy can enter ------and your name has to be in the Lambs Book of life -----
New International Version
Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.