Dragons in the Bible – Chaos Dragon E1

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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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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Nahash, tanin, leviathan––the Bible is full of strange words describing a creature many modern readers can’t quite categorize. All these words are ways of referring to a monster of the deep, a dragon. In this episode, Tim and Jon kick off a brand new theme study, the chaos dragon, with a look at the language the Bible uses to describe this creature.

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0:00.0	Today we begin a brand new theme study and it is on the Chaos Dragon.
0:10.2	Dragons they are not just in the Bible, they are all over the Bible, all over all the
0:16.4	different parts of the Bible.
0:18.0	There's several different words that Biblical authors use to describe dragons or chaos monsters
0:23.3	in the Bible.
0:24.3	Today we'll take a survey of those ancient words.
0:27.8	We first meet the Chaos Dragon on page one of the Bible.
0:37.0	It's called a Tannin and surprisingly it's created on day five as part of God's ordered
0:43.7	creation.
0:44.7	It's good but what this Nakhash is going to start doing is some Nakhad stuff.
0:49.4	This makes us look with new eyes at the Nakhash of Genesis 3.
0:54.8	With the serpents of the Nakhash of Genesis 3, the one who tempts Adam and Eve, be a dragon.
1:01.1	Sounds a lot like Daniel and the revelation.
1:03.8	These authors have a coherent way of thinking it's just different than us.
1:07.4	So what the Biblical authors are doing is that they're actually deploying well-worn images
1:13.3	and storylines of putting those images in the service of a more unique set of ideas
1:18.8	and claims about God and reality and good and evil in humans.
1:23.1	Today Tim Mackey and I talk about dragons in the Bible.
1:27.0	I'm John Collins, you're listening to the Bible Project Podcast.
1:30.6	Thanks for joining us.
1:31.6	Here we go.
1:36.9	Hey, John.
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