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The LORD Speaks (Part 4)
We just have a few weeks left in Job.
As such, if you have developed any questions, please make a note of them and you can give them to me or email them.
We will plan to do a Q&R after we get through the book.
We have a final creature we are going to look at today.
As a reminder, we have covered...
The created divine beings (stars)
The creatures with breath (animals)
The chaos land creature (behemoth)
The chaos sea creature (leviathan)
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Leviathan, today
In all this, when we are done with the LORD’s poem, we will have covered all creation...
EXCEPT…humans.
Before we get to this creature, let’s look at what Isaiah the prophet wrote:
What is written of Leviathan is extensive, and not just modern writings.
People have written about this creature since the 13th and 12th BCE.
Mot’s Message to His Messengers (Continued)
1–4 “When you killed Litan, the Fleeing Serpent,
Annihilated the Twisty Serpent,
The Potentate with Seven Heads,
The heavens grew hot, they withered.
4–6 But let me tear you to pieces,
Let me eat flanks, innards, forearms.
6–8 Surely you will descend into Divine Mot’s throat,
Into the gullet of El’s Beloved, the Hero.”
These lines are from a tablet from ancient Ugarit, a site that was discovered in 1928.
The tablets come from the 13th century BCE (1300)
They are full of allusions that marry up with the religious writings of the biblical authors.
In short, the biblical authors are striking out against the Baal religions.
In all, Leviathan is the mythological creature of:
Mythological creatures:
Leviathan, Yam (Sea), Tannin (Dragon), Tiamat (Tehom), all ruled with Mot (Death) and Baal (Lord) and El (God).
Baal and Leviathan (Ugarit)
Marduk and Tiamat (Babylon)
Zeus and Thyphon (Greek)
Thor and Midgard Serpent (Norse)
Yahweh and Tehom (Gen 1)
Yahweh and Rahab (Egypt, Akkadian)
Yahweh and the Seas
As you can see, the stories have crossed many ancient cultures and times.
With this in mind, let’s read Chapter 41
Here is where I am with this:
It is not a dinosaur
It is not a crocodile
What good is a God of creation that proves his strength through a hippopotamus, dinosaur, or crocodile.
Get enough people together and we can take any of these creatures down.
Steve Irwin used to wrestle a crocodile by himself.
God opens with where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth and he closes with a poem about a crocodile or dinosaur?
I just don’t buy it.
I have not shared this yet, but BEHEMOTH, in Hebrew, sounds like:
BEAST of DEATH
And Leviathan is made up of words that equate to
TWISTING SERPENT
As I mentioned before, this is a cosmic creature with a rich history
Baal and Leviathan (Ugarit)
Marduk and Tiamat (Babylon)
Zeus and Thyphon (Greek)
Thor and Midgard Serpent (Norse)
Yahweh and Tehom (Gen 1)
Yahweh and Rahab (Egypt, Akkadian)
Yahweh and the Seas
Jesus and the Waters (turn to wine, walk on them, calm them)
New Creation (No sun, moon, or sea)
And here is something to consider.
Jonah, when he is “swallowed by a great fish,” he utters a poem prayer to God.
In that prayer, Jonah speaks of being in a land of the dead (SHEOL).
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The NT authors wrote about Jesus and his encounters with the sea, with water.
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There will be no dwelling for Leviathan since there will be no sea.
It does not mean there will be no water…the text clearly refers to water in abundance.
This water in new creation will not be home to chaos monsters any longer.
This chaos monster is the representative of death.
Something from which no human can escape without the aid of the living God.
You see...
Jesus is the wounded lamb that stands in opposition to behemoth and leviathan.
Because he gave himself to make us clean, God gives him all power over evil.
And in that power, God will resurrect us from the chaos (death) that will consume each of us someday.
Jesus teaches us to choose love not chaos.
You cannot be loyal to both.
The indication here is that we must choose life.
Life is not compatible with the chaos of death.
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its way leads to death.
To chaos.
Through all this chaos, ONE THING has been PRESERVED.
Job’s life.
That is what interests God.
It is what confuses Job.
Job expects and has even desired to be dead.
But that is not God’s desire.
All that Job has was given to the Adversary, the satan.
But his life, that was never put in the hands of the satan.
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