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And when he was talking about Leviathan he was not saying he was
strong enough to wrestle a crocodile. Six times in the Bible Satan is called
Leviathan. That was the real problem in his heart. Who was strong enough
to fight the forces of evil? It cannot be done on the level of earth; it is not
in man’s power or nature.
And now God comes to the end, and He says to Job: “Remember way
back before all the debates? Remember your friends who never answered
your questions? You had two of them. “What is the answer to human
nature and what is the answer to Satan?” He says, Job, are you able to rise
up and handle the pride of man? Can you handle my enemy Satan?

“Behemoth”, I think that’s a picture of the natural man, our sinful human
nature. What the New Testament calls “The old man”. Corrupt and
unfixable human nature. It’s just a picture of the flesh. And “Old
Leviathan” is really a picture of Satan. I think what God is doing here at
the end is returning to deal with the very primal and desperate cravings of
Job’s heart. Who can handle me? Who can handle Satan? And God says,
“Job, I can handle the creation; I can handle the animate; I can handle the
inanimate; I can handle Behemoth, and Leviathan too.” And then Job saw
the Lord, and he says, finally I have found the answers. The answer to the
problem of life is seeing God Himself and seeing Him alone.

Reading JOB to Know God

Chapter 13 Outcome of the Lord’s Dealings

Now I used to call this the blessed results of suffering, but I found a new
title for this section, and it is from the Book of James chapter 5:10-11

“As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the
prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. We count those blessed
who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have
seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of
compassion and is merciful.”
Isn’t that a marvelous expression? “The outcome of the Lord’s dealings.”
That is what I have entitled chapter 42, taken from James 5:11 If you
have the King James version it says: “You have seen the end of the
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