Leviathan is the 13th creature referred to by God in His discourse to Job to demonstrate His supremacy and to prophecy. We’ll look at all the scriptural references to leviathan, the psalms of Asaph, God’s authority over man and beast and satan, and everything under the whole heaven. We’ll discuss dominions, principalities and powers, the dragons breath and scales and the millstone of his heart (and hung around his neck). God reveals the fear of the mighty and the ultimate defeat of his adversary.
This week we’ll examine the conscience and how it accuses us, and how we can be truly excused, by God. You’ll hear about an anachronistic literary device in the text. We’ll look at what it means to instruct and reproof God. We’ll compare the answers to conscience of Job, David, and you and me. We’ll ask Job is a contest, or is the battle real. Did Job sin, blaspheme, or even curse God? Whose hand was on Job anyway? What did God determine before the foundation of the world. And how did He declare the end from the beginning? What is God really saying when Hew tells Job to “gird up thy loins like a man?” And what is the primary message of the book of Job to both Israel, and to believers today.
We examine the end of the creative, geological, astronomical and meteorological presentation of God’s wisdom and understanding with the numbering of the clouds and the bottles of heaven, and then it’s on the the zoological presentation.
We count the lion, the raven, the wild goat, the hind, the wild ass, the unicorn, the peacock, the ostrich, the horse, the hawk and the eagle. We see in them his wisdom, and follow His understanding through the scriptures, 11 animals in all, in anticipation of number 12, behemoth, and the 13th – Leviathan.
We’ll think about how God maintains everything all at once, and contemplate His omniscience. We’ll look at the prophecies of power, terror and majesty related to the lion; the picture of the Fall told in the raven; the goat as he symbolizes bounty and sacrifice; the deer and a picture of hope; the donkey and the three fold witness at the triumphal entry; the unicorn and his horn of authority unified authority and power; the peacock and the apex of humanity in the fallen world; the horses of judgment, and the white horse of the LORD’s conquest; the hawk bringing judgment from the north, and the eagle that can save, or scavenge.
