{"id":8116,"date":"2020-03-08T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2020-03-07T01:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T08:05:19","slug":"job41_1-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/job41_1-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchless Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job 41:1-34 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Now onto today\u2019s passage. Today\u2019s passage is Job 41:1-34.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Job 41:10 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-34:\u00a0 For one whole chapter, God talks about the leviathan.\u00a0 What is the leviathan and why is God talking about it?<\/p>\n

The leviathan is described as a powerful marine animal that is violent, not easily captured or tamed, armed with fearsome teeth (v14), and who is impervious to attacks with various premodern combat weapons (v26).\u00a0 \u00a0In the past scholars surmised that perhaps the leviathan was a sea monster, a whale, or a marine dinosaur.\u00a0 Today, many scholars believe that the leviathan is a giant crocodile, since \u201cthe crocodile fits God\u2019s description of the leviathan\u2019s back (v13, 15-17, 23), teeth (v14), chest and undersides (v24, 30) and its churning of the waters (v31-32)\u201d (The Bible Knowledge Commentary).\u00a0 If the leviathan is a giant crocodile, then the references to it being fire-breathing (v19-21) might be an exaggeration for effect.<\/p>\n

Another theory is that behemoth and leviathan in Job are the beasts described in the book of Revelation who wreak havoc on mankind, who are controlled by Satan, who represent great evil and yet who are ultimately conquered by the Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 If behemoth and leviathan are symbolic of great evil, then one lesson we can learn here is that even though Satan is powerful, we belong to One who is far more powerful than Satan, who has authority over Satan, and who procures our ultimate victory over Satan.\u00a0 Our champion\u2019s name is Jesus.\u00a0 Just as God would ultimately deliver Job from Satan\u2019s attacks and bless Job even more than before, those who trust in the Lord may go through great attacks, but through Jesus Christ we will have ultimate victory and experience even greater blessing.<\/p>\n

Whether the leviathan is an actual animal, a symbol of evil, or both, the lesson is the same:\u00a0 as powerful as leviathan is, God is even more powerful.\u00a0 As God Himself says to Job in verse 10, \u201cNo one is fierce enough to rouse him [that is, the leviathan]. Who then is able to stand against me?\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s as if God is saying in verse 10, \u201cJob, if you\u2019re no match for Leviathan, don\u2019t even think about coming up against me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n

1.If there are certain creatures that we are no match for in this world, who are we to think that we are any match for God, who is far more powerful and who created them.<\/p>\n

2.As powerful as Satan is, Jesus is far more powerful.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, I worship You today as the One whose power no one could ever match.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad and thankful that You\u2019re with me and for me, not against me.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Now onto today\u2019s passage. Today\u2019s passage is Job 41:1-34.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!
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\nJob 41:10 (NIV)\u00a0
\n10\u00a0\u00a0No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
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\nOn verses 1-34:\u00a0 For one whole chapter, God talks about the leviathan.\u00a0 What is the leviathan and why is God talking about it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The leviathan is described as a powerful marine animal that is violent, not easily captured or tamed, armed with fearsome teeth (v14), and who is impervious to attacks with various premodern combat weapons (v26).\u00a0 \u00a0In the past scholars surmised that perhaps the leviathan was a sea monster, a whale, or a marine dinosaur.\u00a0 Today, many scholars believe that the leviathan is a giant crocodile, since \u201cthe crocodile fits God\u2019s description of the leviathan\u2019s back (v13, 15-17, 23), teeth (v14), chest and undersides (v24, 30) and its churning of the waters (v31-32)\u201d (The Bible Knowledge Commentary).\u00a0 If the leviathan is a giant crocodile, then the references to it being fire-breathing (v19-21) might be an exaggeration for effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}