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Leviathan and Chaos
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| What part does Leviathan play in the end times? | |
| I'm a Leviathan preacher. | |
| We've seen you preach on Leviathan. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And not too many people preach on Leviathan. | |
| No. | |
| But you mention him in your writings and in your preaching. | |
| Him, it, whatever it is, it's a spirit entity. | |
| What is it? | |
| We think it's the entity chaos. | |
| Yes, chaos, but we think it's a spirit. | |
| It's twisted, I know. | |
| We think Leviathan, chaos, is the spirit that indwells the Antichrist. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| This is the first entity addressed by God in the Bible, Genesis 1, verse 2, where the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. | |
| And the word deep is tahome, which is a cognate, which means same word, different language. | |
| For the Sumerian word, tiamat, which was their name for Leviathan, chaos, primordial chaos. | |
| God subdued chaos so that he could speak order into existence, create the conditions for human life, and represented in the Old Testament very often by the sea. | |
| The sea represents chaos. | |
| In fact, the Hebrew word for sea is Yom, and that's equivalent to the Canaanite word for Leviathan. | |
| Yom is their chaos monster that had to be subdued. | |
| Of course, the Canaanites believed that it was Baal who subdued chaos. | |
| But this is a story that's repeated over and over in the ancient world. | |
| The Sumerians believe that Tiamat was subdued by Enlil or Marduk, depending on when the story was told. | |
| There was another story told where the warrior God Ninurta had to defeat a seven-headed dragon. | |
| Seven-headed dragon? | |
| Where do we read about that in the Bible? | |
| Revelation. | |
| So this is a story repeated over and over, but God is the one who defeats Leviathan. | |
| And we see in Isaiah chapter 27, on that day, which is a reference to the day of the Lord, the day of Yahweh, when Armageddon happens, that God will crush the heads, plural of Leviathan. | |
| I think that's a prophecy of this destruction in the end times, when the Antichrist is finally destroyed. | |
| And you notice in Revelation 21, where it says there's a new heaven and a new earth, and the sea is no more. | |
| Why is the sea mentioned separately? | |
| If there's a new earth, you'd think the oceans would be part of that package? | |
| No, it's mentioned separately because the sea is the representation of chaos. | |
| At the very end, when there's new heaven, new earth, chaos is finally destroyed. | |
| The sea is no more. | |
| Oh, that is excellent. | |
| Praise God. | |
| If you want to read about Leviathan, again, open your Bible, read the word, and another chapter is in Job 41. | |
| Yes. | |
| It's brilliant. | |
| It really is. | |
| If you want to get kids excited about the Bible, Colin, I know you're not a kid anymore, but you're the youngest one here. | |
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Dragons In The Bible
00:00:30
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| Seriously, Job 41 that describes a dragon that sneezes forth flames. | |
| Isn't that cool? | |
| It is so amazing. | |
| If I'd had a pastor preach on that when I was like 10 or 12. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| It's like, what? | |
| Dragons in the Bible? | |
| That's one of the reasons we wrote giants, gods, and dragons was to discuss all this, but to get kids excited about the Bible. | |
| And that's exactly what I have written on the top of, right here. | |
| You can see Job 41. | |
| Chaos. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |