We're exploring the theme of the Chaos Dragon in the Bible, the Tanim in Hebrew, also called the Leviathan.

This dragon and the chaotic sea it lives in are ancient symbols to represent the

ideas of chaos and death. We have seen how when spiritual beings align with chaos and

death they're depicted as dragons and snakes, like the Satan.

We've also seen how violent humans are compared to snakes and sea dragons.

In the last episode we looked at Daniel 7 where four sea monsters who depict four

human empires rise up out of the chaotic sea and it's here in Daniel 7 we meet the

dragon Slayer a character called the son of man who ascends up to the sky to sit on God's throne,

and in collaboration with God, slays the sea monsters.

This is all in the Bible, really.

And it all brings us to the New Testament where the gospel

authors introduce us to Jesus the son of man, the dragon slayer. So today we

look at how Jesus slays the dragon, like when Jesus is confronted by the

snakey satan in the wilderness. Jesus is portrayed as victorious here and so

what we're told though is the slander is going to be back. He left him until an opportune time. Now there's no

scene in the future where it's as in the slander came to him. So you're just

supposed to be looking for well where's a moment when that happened?

Jesus also confronts the chaotic waters themselves.

You might be familiar with this story. The disciples in Jesus are in a boat on the sea of

Galilee, a violent storm picks up, and Jesus is asleep. They wake him up and say,

Teacher, don't you care?

We're gonna die!

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