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of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand”

Evidently, verse 13 is a reference to the fall of Satan – when God cleared
heaven of the fleeing serpent. I do not have any doubt of this when I turn
to Isaiah 27. God talks about that great day of the return of Jesus Christ to
this earth. Great prophetic chapter, when Jesus returns. Verse 1
“In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
with His fierce and great and mighty sword, even Leviathan the
twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. In
that day, a vineyard of wine, sing of it! I, the LORD, am its keeper; I
water it every moment. So that no one will damage it.”
He is talking about the Millennium, and what he is saying is there is
coming a day when Leviathan will be destroyed. That is just a picture of
Satan. Under that figure, Leviathan, Dragon, Egypt, is the symbol, evil
Satan himself. Just as cursing his natural birth was tantamount to a cry,
“I want a new birth”, longing for someone daring enough to rouse up and
to curse Leviathan was the inward cry for a Savior. “I want a Deliverer”. I
want someone who is a match for Leviathan. I want someone who is able
to beat and conquer Leviathan. Boy when you read chapter 3 this way! He
is not cursing his birthday. He is not cursing a crocodile that lives in the
Nile. Instead, he is saying my heart cries out for a “new birth”. My heart
cries out for a Deliverer, a Savior. That is the real cry that he could not put
into words.
And that is why these men come along and say, oh, do you want to know
why you are suffering? He says, no, but what I really want to know is I
want to be satisfied! I need an answer for this birth, for this life, for
nature! I need an answer for evil, for wickedness, for sin, for Leviathan.
They never answered that. They could not answer that because they never
saw it. And he kept answering back, no, you are wrong. So chapter 3
becomes the foundation for the tremendous debates which are to follow.

Reading JOB to Know God

Chapter 7 The Wrong Answers

I came across a cartoon that showed two fish in a bowl who were trying to
understand the mysteries of life. These two goldfish were discussing the
purpose for existence and the reality of God. Now one of the goldfish was
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