TSM January Questions

What is a Leviathan?

A leviathan is a large powerful sea creature. Most likely a serpent looking sea creature. Scripture mentions the Leviathan several times.

Job 41 describes this sea dragon like creature.

It has imposing strength. It is immensely strong.

It has impenetrable scales. No arrow or sword can penetrate its scales.

Fearsome appearance. Its appearance is so fearsome whoever encounters it will tremble and fall into fear.

Mighty movement. It stirs up the sea as it moves in it. Fast and agile in the water. Hard for anyone to catch or kill. But also fast to destroy its prey.

Breath of fire. The leviathan had a breath of fire. Could mean literal or metaphorically, either way it was an untamable creature.

The leviathan was a creature that was used in scripture to symbolize chaos and evil.

Other passages in scripture describe how God will punish or conquer this evil using the leviathan as a metaphor.

Isaiah 27:1 ESV

1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In the afterlife, in heaven, could i still see the people i love there? Would I forget everything about my life on earth?

Yes, you will see the people you love in heaven.

No, you will not forget the life you lived here on earth.

John 14:1–3 ESV

1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Jesus gives us the ultimate hope that we will see him again. He promises the disciples that they will SEE him again and RECOGNIZE him again, and be in a RELATIONSHIP with him.

WE NEVER STOP HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.

Revelation 21:4 ESV

4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

We will remember all the things we went through but when we are with Christ in our glorified bodies we will no longer experience pain or suffering of any sort. Our earthly life will be only a reminder of how much Christ loved us and saved us to be with him for an eternity. Leading us to glorify only him.

What happens after you go to heaven?

We will worship God.

Revelation 4:8–11 ESV

8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” 9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

2. We will have fellowship and Reunion:

Hebrews 12:1 ESV

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

3. We will experience God’s presence and Joy:

Revelation 21:3–4 ESV

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

This means that we will feel full satisfaction in his presence. Never wanting more or wanting less. We will have all of our needs fully satisfied.

4. We will work and serve God:

Revelation 22:3 ESV

3 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

When it says his servants will worship him it means that we will serve him. The word used for worship in this text can be interchanged with “serve”.

This implies we will have work in heaven. How that will look like will be determined when we get to heaven.

In the New Testament there’s a verse that says the saints were resurrected from the dead. But not by Jesus. Did they actually get resurrected?

I don’t believe there are any verses that say people will be resurrected from the dead by something other than God.

Scripture teaches that we will all be resurrected on the last day. Good and bad for judgement.

Revelation 20:11–15 ESV

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Matthew 24:29–31 ESV

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 ESV

15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.