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897. Bible Study: Job 3 (Suffering that makes you want to be gone, Leviathan, The Beast of Revelation?) · Faith by annm2705

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Job chapter 3 First, let's pray, Dear Lord, please be with us as
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we read through this chapter and let us have wisdom, insight and
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to hear your word, hear what you have to say.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So it starts out after this.
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So Job had his just to place the setting.
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Job had his friends come over and visit him, and they were
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sitting with him for seven days and seven nights, and nobody
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said a word because they saw how great his suffering was.
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That was in chapter 2. So after this, Job opened his
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mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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He said, May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said
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a boy is conceived that day, may it turn to darkness.
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May God above not care about it. May no light shine on it.
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May gloom in utter darkness claim it Once more.
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May a cloud settle over it. May blackness overwhelm it that
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night. May thick darkness seize it.
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May it not be included among the days of the year, nor be entered
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in any of the months. May that night be barren.
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May no shout of joy be heard in it.
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May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to
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rouse Leviathan. May its morning stars become
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dark. May it wait for daylight in vain
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and not see the first rays of dawn.
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For it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble
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from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth
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and die as I came from the womb? Why were their knees to receive
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me in breast that I might be nursed?
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For now I would be lying down in peace.
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I would be asleep and at rest with kings and rulers of the
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earth who built for themselves places now lying in ruins, with
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Princess who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
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Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn
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child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
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There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are
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at rest. Captives also enjoy their ease.
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They no longer hear the slave drivers shout.
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The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed
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from their owners. Why is light given to those in
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misery and life, to the bitter of soul, to those who long for
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death that does not come, who search for it more than for
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hidden treasure, who are filled with gladness and rejoice when
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they reach the grave? Why is life given to a man whose
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way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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For sighing has become my daily food.
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My groans pour out like water. What I feared has come upon me.
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What I dreaded has happened to me.
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I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest, but only
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turmoil. So that's the end of chapter 3.
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And obviously we know what's happening.
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But Job doesn't. He is being attacked by the
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enemy. Could because God allowed it.
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And so this is this could give us an example of like when we
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are, when we ever feel like this, when there's just, there's
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no peace, no quietness, no rest, but only turmoil could very well
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be an attack from the enemy, attack from Satan.
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It could be testing us just like this is Job being tested.
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But we know that because we read the the other chapters, but Job
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doesn't know this. So this is all coming on him as
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a surprise. And personally, I experienced
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that when I started to get closer to Christ.
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And, and so I know this is real. This is what happened and this
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is what God showed me. When I I say God showed me, this
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was the first book that I opened up to when I opened the Bible.
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And it was during a time of pleading with God, like why is
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this happening to me? So in my mind, it's like God
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showed it to me. And whether he did or not is up
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for debate, but that's what I see it as anyway.
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I will go through the study, Bible questions and answers, and
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then I'll just reference some other scripture that came to
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mind as I was reading through this.
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So what did it mean for Job to curse the day of his birth?
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The phrase is a figure of speech, one full of power and
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poignancy that expresses deeply felt emotions.
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We might use the phrase I wish I had never been born.
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Though Job never cursed God in his despair, he seems to have
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challenged God's sovereign wisdom in permitting his birth.
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And you know, we see this also in Jeremiah too, like Jeremiah
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20 verse 18, which I will read later.
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But Jeremiah kind of had that same thing.
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He was a prophet that God appointed to do certain things
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and he, he didn't like his assignment, but Job didn't, he
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wasn't a prophet. He was just someone who was
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righteous, who is living by faith and doing all the right
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things. But again, like I said before,
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this is my opinion, but it sure seems like, you know, we always
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try to say, well, why would God do this?
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And I don't know for sure, so this is just my opinion, but it
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seems like God's almost trying to show Satan something like
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look at Job, look at how good Job is.
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Like, can you not see this? Could you not change your ways?
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Maybe because we know that God always wants that
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reconciliation. He's not after the he's not
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after punishment. He wants reconciliation.
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He wouldn't have created any anything that with the intention
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of let whatever I create rebel against me.
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Like who would really do that? That doesn't seem like God's
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character. God creates what he creates out
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of love and out of enjoyment. And so when we see things
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rebelling against God and people rebelling against God, that
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wasn't what God was desiring. However, the only way to know
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true love is if there is a response back to a person like
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if you, if you love, you know, there is that phrase.
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And I do think it's not in the Bible, but I do think it's true
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that if you love something, set it free.
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And if it returns, then it was meant to be.
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And if not, it wasn't. So I do see that as, as the way,
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you know, God almost interacts with us.
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It's like he loves us, He'll always love us, but he lets us
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choose. Do we love him back?
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And we show him how we love him back by our obedience to him.
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That's just our way of showing God that we that we love him.
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So anyway, going back to questions, why does the
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narrative switch to poetry? The author probably felt that
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Job's deep emotions could best be expressed in lyrical poetry.
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Biblical poetry such as the book of Psalms typically conveys the
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spiritual dimensions of human feelings and the quest for a
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relationship with God for far more poignantly than narrative
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techniques which communicate facts and information within the
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framework of a story. Who would curse days?
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This is probably a general reference to professional
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sorcerers like Balaam from Numbers chapter 24, who were
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believed to have the power to make a day unlucky.
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And then what was leviathan? The word leviathan referred to
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any great water creature, such as a whale or a giant squid, but
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the word was also used in ancient myths to refer to a
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great sea monster that was believed to live in the oceans.
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Some ancient sorcerers claimed they could make Leviathan come
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up out of the sea and blot out the sun, temporarily causing a
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day be cursed. Here Joe was referring
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poetically to their claim to be able to rouse Leviathan.
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So anyway, this is really interesting because I want to
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depart. Well, let's see how many more.
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There's a few more things. I'm going to talk a little bit
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more about that. So is death better than a
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troubled life? In his misery, Job probably
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thought so. But the Bible's message
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throughout is that life, all life, is a gift from God.
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Even in terrible suffering, God's glory can be revealed.
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Was Job suicidal? In the midst of Job's
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unspeakable losses and physical pain, he said he longed for
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death, but he was not planning to take his own life.
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He was in mourning and expressing his deep sorrow that
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his life seemed unbearable. And I can relate to that.
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That's how I was feeling when I opened the book to Job was
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that's what I was actually praying.
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So how had God hedged in Job? Satan accused God of putting a
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barrier around Job to protect him.
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Job saw things differently. That God's hedge meant that
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there could be no escape from whatever God sent, whether
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protection or suffering. So that's where the study Bible
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questions and answers end. And I'm just going to go through
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some things that I that came to mind.
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As I mentioned when we were at the first part where Job is just
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he's cursed the day that's the very first sentence of this
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chapter 3 was that he cursed the day of his birth.
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Well this is kind of like what came to mind with to me was
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Jeremiah in chapter 20 verse 18 where Jeremiah says why did I
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ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my
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days in shame. So in this life we do have
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hardship, but as Jesus said, you know he has overcome.
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So we just put our faith in and hope in Jesus.
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The hope that we have is something known, not unknown.
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It's revealed through the Bible that there will be an end to all
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of this when we make that transition from this, this
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earthly mortal life that we have unto the OR into, I don't know
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what the right word is, into the immortal life that we will be
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given with God and be able to live with God in the future.
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And so there is a there, there is a good outcome.
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There is a good ending. The story, as long as we're
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reconciled with Christ, as long as we're reconciled with God,
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there is a good outcome to everything.
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If we're not an enemy of God, there's good things coming, even
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if we suffer right now, no matter what hardships we go to,
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God is just, he's so good in this book of Job, even though
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the so many chapters are about pain and suffering.
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In fact, when I opened up the book to it, when I first read
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it, I just thought, this is horrible.
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This is like not exactly what I was going through, but it was so
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bad. I was like, I don't need this,
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you know, like, how does it end? And I, before I even finish the
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book, I went all the way to the end of the chapter to see what
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happened. And God blesses Job in the end.
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He doubly blesses things that he took away.
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And I always think, well, you can't really get back your sons
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and daughters that were killed in a house.
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But he did have more sons and daughters.
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But then if they were believers, if they believed in God and it
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seemed like, you know, they had a father who was, who was
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showing them the these ways, then he's going to see them
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again in God's Kingdom. So he will be even doubly
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blessed in immortal life. And you know, whether this is a
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literal story or a parable used to tell us truths in the Bible,
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the same truth holds holds for all of us.
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Like if there's if we lose someone in our life, but they
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are a believer and they pass on before us, they make that
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transition. That's the way I look at it.
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They make the transition to immortal life before we do.
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We're going to see them again. They're not gone.
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They're temporarily. It's kind of like they're on
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vacation and we didn't get to go on vacation yet.
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So it's it's coming one day where we will all be united.
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So the important part is to have our priority on God and to
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prioritize our relationship with God.
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So anyway, but I wanted to bring up that Jeremiah was one I, I
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think there were other ones like Ezekiel.
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I have a feeling that he wasn't so thrilled about his assignment
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either where he had to enact things and let, I guess it was
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Judah, let him know the coming problems that were going to be
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coming along for them. I mean, you know, a lot of the
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prophets of the, the Old Testament, well, I mean the
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prophets generally speaking, they did have they had, they had
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warnings about what was coming, but many of them also had
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restoration. Not only did they prophecy doom
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and gloom, but in the end there was restoration.
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And that's what God is all about is the restoration.
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But we go through this process and the process refines us.
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It's probably like that as he talks, as God says, you know,
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refining us like silver and like silver, like you have to put it
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through the fire, you have to test it.
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You have to get rid of the impurities before somebody is
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ready. And that's the process that we
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go through on this earth. That's what I believe is that,
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and it says it in the Bible. I mean, this is, this is a
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process that we're going through and it's basically preparing us
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to be in God's Kingdom. And, and that's what this time
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here is on earth. So it's very precious time that
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we have and time right now is something that we don't get back
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with. This life here on earth has a a
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time frame. God knows our days.
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He knows how many numbered days we get.
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And so it's not good to waste them because I believe it will
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establish something in God's future Kingdom what we do with
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our time here, because the Bible talks about like rewards and
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about, I don't know what they are.
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But anyway, it just gives, I guess it gives us some hope that
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the way we live our life and the Bible does say what you sow, you
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will reap. So God does look at that and
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he's a good God. And, and I see so many times
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where somebody goes through a trial where he doubly blesses
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them afterwards. So God is just really good in so
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many ways. And the good gift that he gives
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is the Holy Spirit. Actually, it's not necessarily
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material things like many people think about, but it's the gift
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of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is what we need to enter
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into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said in John chapter 3.
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And the gift of the Spirit also gives us certain supernatural
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abilities that are listed if you search.
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I forgot where it was. I think it's in Corinthians or
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something that talks about the gifts of the Spirit.
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Now, the gifts of the Spirit are different from the fruit of the
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Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit is evidence
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that the Holy Spirit is in a person.
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But the gifts of the Spirit are something that the Holy Spirit
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gives to people when they receive the Holy Spirit.
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So that would be a really good separate study.
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Anyway, Leviathan, that's the next part where may those who
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curse the days curse that day and those who are ready to rouse
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Leviathan. It's, you know, it talks about
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Leviathan as being a myth that was referred to.
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But I just wonder if there's something more to this because
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you can search and I'm using the NIV version but search Leviathan
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and it only occurs 6 times. The first time is in job chapter
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3 which we are on and it talks about rousing Leviathan.
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And then in job 41 it says can you pull in Leviathan with a
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fish hook or tie down its tongue with a rope.
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So there is this like creature that's talked about that is
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pretty significant and and that I'm going to go back to Job or
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not back to forward to Job 41. This electronic Bible that I'm
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looking at doesn't have the headline on it, but I, I don't
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know if it does in the Bible like I want to see in Job 41 who
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is talking here? I think it, I think it's
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actually God talking, yes. It is 'cause God starts speaking
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to Job on chapter 38 and then at 41 it's a continuation of that.
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So, so yeah, God is talking, you know, like, why would God talk
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about Leviathan? Why would God, you know, talk
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about this mythical creature? That's what I think.
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I mean, like, it just doesn't make sense.
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Like why? Why would God do that?
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I have a feeling it's it, it's a name for something.
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And it's not this like sea monster the way it it's
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depicted. But that is symbolic in the
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Bible. But it's something more than
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that. So even in the Psalms it's
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talked about in Psalm 7414, it says it was you who crushed the
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heads of Leviathan and gave it. It's gave it as food to the
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creatures of the desert. Now in the NIV version, it
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pluralizes head and makes it heads.
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But if you look at the Hebrew word for this in Psalm 7414, it,
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it's called Roche, which is really interesting because it
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would, it's like the chief for the head, somebody in charge of
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something, you know, like a main person.
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And that word Roche is used. It occurs 600 times in the
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Hebrew, the LWC Hebrew book. So I'm certainly not going to
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read all of that, but it's talking about like the let's see
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Strong's Concordance. See here's the strong's
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definitions. It's from an unused root,
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apparently meaning to shake the head as most easily shaken,
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whether literal or figurative, in many applications of
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placetime, rank, etcetera. Then it says band beginning,
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captain Chapeteer key chief place man things company and.
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Every man excellent first forefront, bee head height on
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the highest part, priest lead, poor principal, ruler sum top.
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So there's a lot of different words that are part of this
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definition, but it's somewhat like a chief or the head or
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something significant. And it's primarily the KJV
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translates Strong's H 7218 into the following manner.
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It's used as head 349 times, as chief 91 times, as the top 73
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times, the beginning 14 * a company 12 * a captain 10 times,
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and the sum 9 times in the first six times, the principal five
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times, chapateers 4 times, rulers 2 times, and
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miscellaneous 23 times. So if you want to do a little
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bit more search, you can go to blueletterbible.org and look up
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the this word and then, you know, do a deeper study and look
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at all those 600 verses that talk about it.
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But again, that is in Psalm 74 and that is written by Asaph and
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Asaph was he was also a prophet, which I didn't realize at when I
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first started reading the Bible that Psalms had prophetic things
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in them. But such as the Jesus was
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quoting Psalm when he was on the cross and one of the verses of
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Psalm. So it was a prophetic thing that
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was given. I think it was to David that
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Jesus was quoting because it certainly wasn't something David
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experienced, but it was exactly what was going through what
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Jesus was having happened to him.
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And it says like his legs were not broken and they didn't break
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his legs when he was on the cross.
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That said he was surrounded by dogs.
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And dogs mean a different thing than literal dogs.
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Sometimes they mean literal dogs, but a lot of times they
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they, I think it's really like spiritual idolatry.
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Those kind of people talks about a the old definition was a male
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prostitute. It could be like a literal male
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prostitute, but it could also be a symbolic male prostitute,
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someone who gives up God for another God.
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So an unbeliever. And, and they were, you know,
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those were the ones who crucified the Lord, the
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unbelievers. And so anyway, it's Psalm does
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have a prophetic, some of the Psalms do have prophetic
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significance and it does relate to Jesus's death on the cross.
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Now in Psalm one O 4 verse 26, it talks about Leviathan again.
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It says there the ships go to and fro and Leviathan, which you
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formed to frolic there. Now Leviathan's talked about
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like he's kind of like mocking or he's back and forth.
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And this Psalm one O 4, was it just it references Genesis and
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it talks about like in the beginning, I don't really know.
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It doesn't say, I guess in this edition that I have, it doesn't
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say who wrote this or where it came from, but it, it's somewhat
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reflects the creation story. But so Leviathan is mentioned
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and, and it's kind of interesting because this whole
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thing about merchants and about business and about selling and
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trading. And we see a lot of references
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in Bible prophecy about like Lucifer and how he was like
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trading in Babylon, like Babylon, who the like the spirit
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behind Babylon, where it was you traded with the, the world's
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wealthiest people or the richest people.
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I don't remember the exact word that's in the Book of
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Revelation, but there's this Leviathan like out in the scene.
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He's kind of mocking watching everything going on.
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And if he's the head, if he's watching all of this, then I
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think there might be something significant.
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So right now we've seen that Leviathan is referenced 4 times
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so far. And then Isaiah, another prophet
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talks about Leviathan. So I don't think this is like a
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a mythical thing because why would the Bible dedicate, you
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know, 5 different entries or you know, for this, OK, Isaiah 27
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verse one in that day, that's always the day of the Lord.
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Or often it is the Lord will punish with his sword, his
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fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding
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serpent, Leviathan, the coiling serpent.
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He will slay the monster of the sea.
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So there is this brought to mind, the Book of Revelation,
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the Book of Revelation, Oops, I didn't.
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Let's say I have that. This is Revelation 13 verse one.
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The dragon, which is Satan, stood on the shore of the sea,
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and I saw a beast coming out of the sea.
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That's where the leviathan lives, right?
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It had 10 horns and seven heads with 10 crowns on its horns and
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on each head a blasphemous name. So we're let's see.
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So this talks about how. OK well I'll read first the next
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verse. The beast I saw resembled a
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leopard, but he had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like
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that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his
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power and his throne and great authority.
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Well we know from I think Revelation 12 that the dragon is
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symbolic of Satan. This beast is an alliance of
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it's like the sea is like the sea of people, the sea of many.
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It comes up out of the sea. But you know, this revelation is
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very symbolic. And again, Leviathan's talking
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about coming out of the sea and it's separate from Satan.
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However, Satan gives the beast his power.
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In Revelation 13 two, it talks about the dragon giving the
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beast his power and his throne and great authority.
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And then it says people worship the dragon Satan because he had
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given authority to the beast, the beast out of the sea.
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They also worship the beast and asked who is like the beast who
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can wage war against it. And then there's a second beast
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that comes up out of the earth, though it's not out of the sea,
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it's out of the earth. And it had horns like a lamb,
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but it spoke like a dragon. So this is what people will say
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is the false prophet because of, you know, it has two horns like
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a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
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So maybe it kind of looked like Jesus was described as the lamb,
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like a holy one, but it spoke like a dragon.
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It spoke like Satan. So that's, you know, we're not
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going to get into all of the Revelation, but I just wanted to
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point out that that Leviathan really sounds like the beast in
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Revelation that comes up out of the sea.
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And if the Bible references Leviathan in the Old Testament
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five times and God even speaks about Leviathan, I have a
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feeling it's symbolic. You know, it's sometimes there's
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a literal and a symbolic significance to it.
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So I don't know if there's going to be something like that that
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really exists, but I'm looking at it symbolically right now.
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But who knows? I mean, the seas are really
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deep, and maybe there's something more than, you know,
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that has appeared to all these people.
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Or maybe it's just something evil that's appeared to people.
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And, you know, 'cause Satan can masquerade as an Angel of light,
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he can appear as a lot of different things.
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And there are evil things that are out there.
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So who knows? But I, I do think there's
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probably some significance. It also reminded me because, you
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know, the sword's going to come against Leviathan in that day.
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Like Isaiah says, he says that in that day the Lord will punish
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with his sword. Now we know Jesus comes with a
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sword out of his mouth. I mean, that's against symbolic,
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but I think that's like the words of Scripture, like the
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sword, because it says that the Scripture is alive and active
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and it's like a sword that cuts through sinews or muscles and,
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you know, it separates the soul. I mean, I forgot exactly what
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that verse is, but it's, it's talking about how like when we
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read the Bible, it cuts through a lot of stuff with us and it,
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it, it's, you know, it's the words of life and death is what
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Scripture gives us. So the Lord, you know, he said
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all these things, they're in scripture, they're documented
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for us for thousands of years for us to study.
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When the Lord comes back, he's going to punish with his sword
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all the people who rejected all the things that he said and had
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thousands of years to pay attention to what he said that
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he's coming back to punish and his with, with his sword, his
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fierce, great and powerful sword.
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And he's going to slay this leviathan, the gliding serpent,
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serpent, the coiling serpent, the monster of the sea.
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The only monster of the sea that we we read about in the Bible
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that I'm aware of is the one that comes up in the Book of
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Revelation. And it's something evil that's
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empowered by Satan. So God is going to deal with
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that in the day that Jesus returns.
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Jesus is going to deal with that.
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He is going to take care of that.
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That's going to be, yeah, there's a like a day of
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slaughter on that. So again, another place was
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Genesis chapter 3, verse 15. This is when God is talking to
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Satan and Eve, and it's because of their sin.
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And so God says, and I will put enmity between you talking to
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Satan and the woman and between your offspring and hers.
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He will crush your head and you will strike his heel.
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So you know, it's kind of like he's going to crush your head.
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The, you know, the head that's talked about in Job, that's
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Roche. So Jesus is going to crush that
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head, that chief that that beast that comes up out of the sea,
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Jesus is going to crush that. And that's empowered by Satan.
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But I think this is directly to Satan.
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And you know, Satan is kind of a head, like Jesus is the head of
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believers. Satan is the head of
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unbelievers. And Jesus is going to crush that
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head. And it has to happen so that
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good and evil can be separated. So anyway, that was just a lot
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of, I don't know, research that I thought in the Bible that may
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be relevant to this. And I think that really
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concludes, I don't know. In verse 14, it's talking about
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the kings of the earth who are in the ground and they built
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places that are now lying in ruins.
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And there were Princess who had gold, who filled their houses
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with silver. It's another reminder that we
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don't take anything with us, so our priority shouldn't be what
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we have here in the worldly sense, but our priority should
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be our relationship with God because that's where we are
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going to be in eternity with God.
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So it's so easy to get wrapped up into the worldly things that
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we see but and forget about what we don't see God, but we can see
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his presence just in the earth and creation and the beautiful
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sun rises, sunsets, the landscapes.
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There's evidence of God everywhere, but often we just
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get focused on unworldly things. And and if this is a good
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reminder like verses 14 and 15 of chapter 3, we're not going to
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take anything with us. So focus on what's important and
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let's see, God does protect. So like this time Job was being
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tested. He didn't know it, but for most
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of Job's life, he was protected by God.
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He and God had a very good relationship and he was
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protected as a result of that. Now, why did God let go Job get
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tested like this? So as you know, Satan the
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accuser, saying, hey, if you do this to him, he won't.
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Yeah, sure, maybe he likes you now, but do this stuff to him.
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He won't like you. He's just always had all your
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benefits. He never had to struggle.
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And so God allowed him to struggle.
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I think all of us probably will get tested at some point in our
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life, and that's where the truth comes out.
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Are we going to reject God or do we stay, remain close to him?
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And the enemy is trying to separate us from God and we just
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need to know that, especially when we see things that come up
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in our life and realize what's really behind it all.
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So anyway, I'm going to wrap up chapter 3 and next time we're
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one of Job's friends is going to have some things to say.
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So we'll cover that in chapter 4 next time.
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