Ferocious Dragons and Rogue Stars – Chaos Dragon E3

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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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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dragons show up on page one of the Bible, named among the beings that feature in the seven-day creation narrative in Genesis 1. God creates dragons to inhabit the chaos waters, and we meet one early on that tries (and succeeds) to get the first humans to choose their own destruction. Why would God create these creatures? What is their purpose? Join Tim and Jon as they talk about the literary function of dragons in the Bible.

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0:00.0	We've been talking about Sea Dragons in the Bible.
0:08.0	It's a common symbol in the ancient Near East to represent chaos and death.
0:13.0	Today, we look at the first mention of the Sea Dragon in the Bible.
0:16.0	It's on page 1 of the Bible, Noles.
0:19.0	God creates the Sea Dragon on day 4 when He fills the seas with all sorts of creatures.
0:26.0	And interestingly, Sea Dragons related to another creature that God creates on day 5.
0:32.0	And that is the stars in the sky.
0:35.0	Dragon and the stars for the biblical authors are just two different ways of talking about.
0:40.0	Something they believe is very real.
0:42.0	Ferocious Sea Dragons and rogue stars.
0:45.0	Both of these represent cosmic powers bent on destruction.
0:50.0	The stars and sea monsters.
0:52.0	These are not rivals of God.
0:54.0	They're the rivals of creation.
0:56.0	They're the rivals of order.
0:58.0	These are ways of describing something that actually is really difficult to identify and describe.
1:05.0	When the Bible wants us to think about the powers of disorder,
1:08.0	it wants us to think about a sinister creature.
1:11.0	And so, it's no surprise that in the very next story,
1:14.0	we meet a slithering sinister creature who wants to drag Adam and Eve into destruction.
1:20.0	What do we mean when we talk about a creature, a spiritual being,
1:24.0	the Satan, the devil, the accuser, that's a creature but that has some sort of real power and agency
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