Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Isaiah 27

27 In that day,
the Lord will punish with his sword
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.


I was struggling to find anything today.  Searching the chapter for a nugget.  I Googled Leviathan and oddly Webster's dictionary came up first.  

Definition of leviathan

1aoften capitalized a sea monster defeated by Yahweh in various scriptural accounts
ba large sea animalthis leviathan of animals is the great Blue Whale— Weston LaBarre
2capitalized the political stateespecially a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy
3something large or formidable

#2 seemed interesting given all of our current global turmoil some involving totalitarian governments.  Perhaps one of them is Leviathan and will be taken down by God.  I'm sure throughout history there has almost perpetually felt like there are days like it feels right now.  But maybe one of these times its the real deal this might be referring too?  But no one knows but God, so I won't be losing sleep over it.

knut

1 comment:

  1. hmm......interesting. I'm going to read it tonight in my study bible, and see if I can get a little more reference to the Leviathan word. Seems strange. Is the US the Leviathan?

    tp

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