You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
You broke open springs and torrents; You dried up ever-flowing streams.
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have established all the boundaries of the earth; You have made summer and winter.
Ancient Hebrew Song, aka Psalm 74:12-17
The King of Rock
Yahweh God is the creator of all things. Before anything else existed, Yahweh God
created the heavens, where he lived, and the earth. He created powerful beings to live and rule
in heaven—dragons and cherebim and angels—and
they ruled heaven and earth with Yahweh God. He ruled over everything in heaven
and his powers ruled over the sea and over the air. We don’t know how they ruled or what they
ruled, but long before mankind the earth existed with water over all the
surface.
The Emperor Strikes Back
Among the
powers that ruled over the earth was Leviathan, the dragon. But this dragon was wicked and decided to
rebel against Yahweh. He called up his
whole realm—the waters and seas—to lift themselves up against Yahweh and to
take his place as ruler of the universe.
The waters covered the earth and destroyed everything that existed,
making everything Chaos. And Leviathan
roared in heaven and claimed his authority to rule over all, taking out all the
light in the air and bringing darkness.
Thus the powers were called darkness.
Yahweh was angry that these upstarts that he himself created would try
to take his place as ruler and so he fought against them. In great power, Yahweh fought Leviathan and
conquered him—although he was not killed.
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