Hey, this is Tyler at Bible Project. I record and mix the podcast. We've been exploring a theme

called the Chaos Dragon, and because it's such a big theme, we've decided to do two separate

question and response episodes about it. We're currently taking questions for the first Q&R

and we'd love to hear from you. Just record your question by September 13th and send it into us

at infoatbibleproject.com. Let us know your name and where you're from and try to keep your question

to about 20 seconds. And please transcribe your question when you email it in. That's a huge

help to our team. We're so looking forward to hearing from you. Here's the episode.

We're in a series about Sea Dragons in the Bible, a symbol of chaos and destruction. In our last

episode, we talked about how humans can become chaos creatures, like the Snake of Genesis 3,

agents of chaos and disorder in the world. And today, we're going to look at a human who straight

up is called a Sea Dragon by the prophets. That is, the Pharaoh of Egypt, who enslaved Israel

in the scroll of Exodus. The stories about him are designed to compare him to the snake of Genesis 3.

The idea that their lives are made bitter with harsh enslavement, thematically connects to working

the ground in grief and in pain. And also their enslavement, their avad, is happening in the field,

which is where the snake came from. It's like the snake dragged him out of the garden into his

domain where they're doing the work and the enslavement to the ground. So a Pharaoh is the

seed of the snake who was the promised seed of the woman who will come to confront the snake.

God is depicted as raising up Moses as a new deliverer for the people. The word salvation and

deliverance is introduced in this story of the Exodus Israelites from Egypt and Moses is the

key figure. And if there is an analogy between Pharaoh and the snake that makes Moses something

like a new Adam. The first thing God teaches Moses to do is to turn his staff into a snake.

There's something about Moses that the narrator wants us to see him as an image of somebody who

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