“Leviathan”

October 13, 2019

“Leviathan”

Blessings folk!

The Lord continues questioning Job, this time with a different animal as reference.

Note the detail.

Job 41:1-11

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook
or press down his tongue with a cord?

Can you put a rope in his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Will he make many pleas to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?

Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant forever?

Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?

Can you fill his skin with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?

Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!

Behold, the hope of a man is false;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Leviathan!
We do not know what this animal was…is?

As before, there is much conjecture, but all attempts to explain ultimately fail.

The point of the questioning is not the animal.

The point is that only the Lord can create such an animal.
Only the Lord can control such an animal.
Such an animal is not submissive to anyone/anything other than the Lord.

Man can not hook…
Man can not rope…
Man can not understand its language…
Man can not have covenant relationship…

Man will be laid low.

So, the Lord concludes, if man can not stand against an animal, then why does man attempt to stand against the Lord?

Whatever is under the whole heaven is the Lord’s!

Give “The Word” podcast a listen.
Click the Podbean link below.
Subscribe.
https://www.patreon.com/dalealanmoore
http://dalemoore.podbean.com