October 29, 2023
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 41 (NIV)
1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?…..Continue Reading
Now God is describing a creature that isn`t afraid of anything for it laughs at anyone trying to attack it. God says that it is king over all the children of pride. It has to be the most terrifying creature on land or in the waters. Yet God controls it and He made it. Nothing can penetrate it`s hide for the sword, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon are nothing to it. Iron is as straw, and brass as rotten wood. Fire comes from his mouth and the wakes of the deep to boil like a pot, and he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. The Leviathan was a real creature that God created. This creature would destroy anything that it came in contact with including the T-Rex. But it dwelled in the deep but could also could get near land but probably not on land. I think that if it could get on land than we wouldn`t even consider the T-Rex. If a T-Rex wandered out in the water it would be destroyed by it. We don`t know what it looked like but we do have the description of it and it`s ability to kill anything in it`s wake. No wonder people were afraid of the oceans, etc. We were always told that they were myths because people don`t see them anymore yet they did exist at one time for God says they did and we have evidence all the round the world that they did exist. Yet as powerful and terrifying that this creature was it was no match to our Awesome All Powerful God of all creation. May we fully grasp how Awesome God is in our own lives and how He cares for each one of us.
Job 40
Job 41; 1 Samuel 18-23
Job 41: If I didn’t know any better, I’d almost say leviathan is what science calls a dinosaur.
Whatever may be this leviathan, dinosaur, or such, no human can stand before it. It is a creation of God, far mightier than any man.
Sometimes, mortals would be well counseled to look about creation and recognize there are natural forces far stronger than we. And if in this material existence there are unconquerable forces, why would we not also consider carefully, and conclude that in the unseen, unnatural, unscientific, spiritual existence, we will all stand puny before a force much more beyond resistance or defeat. Put it this way, in Scripture, of Phillipians chapter 2,
“That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” -gy
Imagine all of the animal kingdom under your control. Vs 11. Sums it up. Everything under heaven belongs to me!!
Job 41
See my comment on chapter 40.
Job 42
There are so many things to fear in this life when we are apart from God. We take solace in the fact that He is creator of everything and therefore more powerful than anything we fear. Even Satan, who sounds very similar to the description of this Leviathan is no match for the Creator. So it is by no power of our own but only when we stand with God that He provides a way when there seems no way.
When I read these descriptions of behemoth and leviathan I think of fictional creatures, but perhaps they were not fictional at that time. There are accounts of dragons and sea monsters in “historical” writings….not the ones we know are fictional, but the ones that are part of history and mythology. Perhaps they went extinct or were killed off, like other species have over the years.
Of course, Satan is described as a dragon. He and his fallen angels,perhaps, concealed themselves less in ancient times.
“His sneezings flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Out of his mouth go burning lights;
Sparks of fire shoot out.
Smoke goes out of his nostrils,
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes out of his mouth.”
Sounds like a dragon to me.