Does the Dragon Sometimes Win? – Chaos Dragon E13

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In the story of the Bible, the dragon is a recurring symbol of chaos, death, and destruction. The good news is, Yahweh is the dragon slayer, and he gives humans power over the dragon too. But in the Bible—and in our own lives—we can encounter stories like Job’s. The scroll of Job explores what happens when a righteous person, someone who should be experiencing God's Eden blessing, gets their life co-opted by the dragon instead. In this episode, join Tim and Jon as they explore the story of Job.

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0:00.0	In the story of the Bible, the Sea Dragon is a reoccurring symbol representing chaos and
0:10.5	death and destruction.
0:12.4	And the power of the dragon takes on many different forms.
0:16.1	It's the snake in the garden tempting humans to choose their own demise.
0:20.3	It's that voice inside of your head telling you, you can win if you kill your brother.
0:26.2	The Sea Dragon is a problem.
0:28.7	But the good news is that Yahweh is a dragon's slayer.
0:32.8	And he wants to give humans power over the dragon too.
0:36.0	Except sometimes it just seems like the dragon wins and the Sea Dragon gets the best of us.
0:43.4	Well welcome to the story of Job.
0:45.9	What happens when the chaos dragon strikes our life?
0:48.9	For Job it takes the lightning strike in the form of bandits and raiders who come steal
0:55.1	and kill and destroy.
0:56.7	And then of a huge storm that knocks a house over that his kids are in, and they'll die.
1:01.7	How is the image of God supposed to process that?
1:04.3	The scroll of Job explores what happens when a righteous person, someone who should be
1:07.9	experiencing God's Eden blessing, gets their life co-opted by the dragon.
1:13.6	And in the story of Job, God allows the accuser to do just that.
1:19.3	The accuser or the opposer says, but how about this?
1:22.2	Turned out your hand to touch everything he has, surely he'll curse you.
1:27.0	And the Lord said, okay, deal, let's test the faithfulness of my servant.
1:32.6	For Job and also for us, these moments when we've lost everything, when God is seemingly
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