Chaos Under Foot.
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· 26 viewsJesus demonstrates His ultimate divine power, and claims His oneness with YHWH, in trampling the Waters of Chaos underfoot. Thus again, God defeats Leviathin and foreshadows a future world with no Sea.
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Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.
Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing. So when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat; and they were afraid. But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
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Jesus Calms our Storms.
Jesus Calms our Storms.
Don’t Fear, Jesus is in Your Boat.
Don’t Fear, Jesus is in Your Boat.
He Calls us onto the Waters.
He Calls us onto the Waters.
This text is Deeper however...
Chaos Under Foot.
Chaos Under Foot.
ancient near east cosmology… Babylon/Ugarit…
ancient people saw the primordial world like legos...
Waters of Chaos/Sea Monsters/Leviathin...
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Creation (God v. Sea Monster)
Creation (God v. Sea Monster)
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Like said earlier… prior to our world, ancients saw chaos...
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Tiamat v. Marduk (Enuma Alish)… Creation Myth… mirrors
textual evidence...
Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
English: the deep
Hebrew: Tehom
Babylon:Tiamat
You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
A Contemplation of Asaph.
O God, why have You cast us off forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their banners for signs.
They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
They said in their hearts,
“Let us destroy them altogether.”
They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.
We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet;
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
O God, how long will the adversary reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
For God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
You broke open the fountain and the flood;
You dried up mighty rivers.
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord,
And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name.
Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
Have respect to the covenant;
For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name.
Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
Do not forget the voice of Your enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.
Did God really kill a sea monster?
no but this is clearly a Polemic of Caananite myth where Baal fight Yamm(chaos water) and Tannun/Litanu(sea monster) {Hebrew bible isn’t copying these myths, rather it takes the common understanding and applies the real truth a YHWH’s supremacy and tells of His ultimate plan… remember through all of this that HE HAS A PLAN....
Ugarit: Yamm, Tannun, Litanu
Hebrew: Yam, Tanninim, Liwyatan
English: Sea, sea monster, Leviathan
, this beast may be a creature but the meaning is deeper… this “dragon” has many heads… a hydra… this comes into play in the last book of the bible as well...
The Fall (Sea Monster at Large)
The Fall (Sea Monster at Large)
the serpent and the twisting serpent… the seraphim and the dragon of old
In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.
Hebrew: bariah, ‘qallaton, tannin
KTU 1.5:I:2 When you smote Litanu, the fleeing serpent, annihilated the twisting serpent the dominant one who has seven heads...
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Noah’s flood, God allows chaos to envelop the world again… He has a plan...
Exodus, the waters parted… birth of a new people… He has a plan...
Jesus walks on water...
Jesus walks on water...
Jesus walks on water (Chaos Under Foot)
Jesus walks on water (Chaos Under Foot)
No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.
Who then is able to stand against Me?
Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him?
Everything under heaven is Mine.
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Jesus is further fulfilling the words of Job in that He is trampling chaos under His foot seeing His plan taking hold...
textual evidence...
Just like the Exodus, a new people is nearly being born… Exactly one year into the future is the cross...
The New World (No more Chaos)
The New World (No more Chaos)
chaos and all that opposes God will be done away with...
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Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
So why is this Important?
So why is this Important?
Jesus as divine
Victory over Satan… His covert mission in conjunction with the cross…
Our freedom in the storms around us… He is our anchor…
But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.
The battle is won, fix our eyes on Him (Peter)...
The battle is won, fix our eyes on Him (Peter)...
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