King of beasts

Posted on November 7th, 2024 by Redeemed

Job 41:1
“Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?

The earth's is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. The world and all that dwelts in it belongs to God. (Psalm 24:1). Mankind is one of God's creature so also is Leviathan.

The opening scriptures is one of the dialogues of God with Job when he was in anguish and thought God hasn't been fair to him.

In his pains he began to question the justice of God just like many of us who are angry with God because we can't understand the working of God in us and around us.
Some wonder if God is still the loving God they knew him to be. In their distress they cannot see the hand of God still protecting, providing and guiding all their moves.

Job questioned the justice system of God. He was at a loss why God would allow the just to be so oppressed? He wanted to see God and ask him why he allows the wicked to torment the upright.
Why God would take away his right and leave him in such pitiable condition when all he did was serve Him.

Job had lost all, and God had not done a thing to help him he thought. Like many of us, we think God is far from us, and has not been fair to us, but I want to announce to you that God is very fair. He is fair to everyone.
As a man sows, so also will he reap.

As job wailed and groan, and his friends were even adding to his sufferings, suddenly out of the whirlwind God answered him.

God answered Job by asking him to just consider some of the creatures that he made just like he created him.

Leviathan is one of God's many creatures.
It is powerful and fearless. A very proud beast with an unimaginable strength.

Anyone that happens to do battle with Leviathan and survived will never attempt to come near it again! It is fearless and ruthless, with a heart as hard as flint. Its second name according to me is, 'Proud and arrogant'.

If no one dares Leviathan, who is a creature of God, who is he therefore that dares the God who is able to tame Leviathan?

God frustrates the enterprise of the wicked, he humbled them just as He is able to humble Leviathan.

As powerful as Leviathan is, he fears God and has agreed to work for God, and to be His slave for life!

Job 41:4
Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?

When it rises, Leviathan is majestic in its stride, the powerful strength around its neck strikes a picture of terror wherever it goes, even the mighty are afraid, seized with fear at the sight of this awesome creature!

To Leviathan, iron is but straw, and bronze, rotten wood. No one can tame it as a pet.
Arrows is nothing and stones are but grass to Leviathan, with scales so tight that no air passes through.
Its eyes are as red as dawn and when it sneezes it's like flames of fire.

Fire pours from its mouth, and lightening flashes from his mouth.
His breath lights up coals, for flames of fire pours from his mouth. A fearful creature is Leviathan but one that honours God its creator. Man trembles at the sight of Leviathan and dares him not; who therefore is man that dares the LORD!

Leviathan is in a class of it's own, one of the many creatures of the Almighty; nothing on earth is equal to it.

It is fearless and the proudest of all the beast; and His Maker calls him the king of beasts! Job 41:34.

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