Leviathan Part 3: We Win!

 

 

Ps 74:13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters. 14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

We’re continuing this series on Leviathan today, just gathering what I hope is useful information for you, in the battle against our evil foe Satan. We have already established that the Leviathan is a very real creature who is used to personify the devil in the Bible.  

 

In this Psalm of Asaph, we have a reference to, and an acknowledgment of, the power of God in dealing with Leviathan in the past, and guess what? The devil lost every single time! As you read the Old Testament history of Israel make it a point to note how often the devil sought to thwart the plan of God’s salvation through the incarnate Christ.  These plans that ultimately failed, can be summed up in Joseph’s statement to his brothers: Ge 50:20 "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good”

 

God turned the plans of the devil into futility every single time, “breaking the heads  (the thought patterns) of Leviathan in pieces!” These pesky attacks of Satan and consequent victories of God were prophesied way back in the garden of Eden when God told the devil,  “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel." (Gen 3:15)

 

The ultimate victory over Leviathan coming at the cross! The victory so certain that the Leviathan is compared to food for God’s people who inhabit the wilderness!

 

Allow me to let you in on a little secret: The true church of God, the true Israel, is always found in the wilderness, because the wilderness is the place where one must be truly reliant upon God. (It’s God’s grace, total reliance on Him that saves us) (Eph 2:8,9)

 

This passage from the Psalm dealing with Leviathan ought to bring great hope to the church of Jesus Christ. Because even though we have a crafty and mean-spirited, menacing  foe, in the end, by the power of God, the church has him for lunch! (food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.)

Acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah like Peter did, and the Leviathan will not prevail against you! Mt 16:16 Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, (the promised Messiah of Gen 3:15) the Son of the living God."  17 Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.