Noah and the Sea monster

2022 Revision by Waldo Kühn

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 NOAH AND THE SEA MONSTER

This booklet follows on Gospel of God and The Origin of Sin, both to be found at:
The Gospel Explained (godsgospel-waldo.blogspot.com)
Go through them first, as I am basically just expounding on them.
I have shown in the previous eBooks that the Creation of Genesis 1 and 2 vastly differed
in almost every way from our current reality. I have shown that although it was a
physical (dimensional) Creation, it was boundless, in the sense that life there did not
cease. So, there could not have existed natural selection through dying out of less
adapted types – the most apparent law of life in our universe. No food chain, no
disease or pain – a Heavenly existence much like that which awaits us in Christ when
we have been resurrected to Eternal Life in Him. (See also Isaiah 11.) I have noted that
after the fall, Creation had become cursed and (seemingly) in an instant there is a
complete dimensional shift to the mortal realm, as if the fabric of imperishability had
vanished. Adam and Eve had lost their Godly Radiance and went from elegant rulers
to pathetic naked mortals, somehow emerging into a rude awakening.
The new creation spawned disease, predation and natural selection, all of which had
been absent in the original Creation. Did Adam and Eve have navels? I do not know.
God clothed them in skins – that could refer to the mortal forms in which they came
to exist in the fallen creation, as well as equipping them with the skill to hunt and
utilize. It would have entailed a major shift in form; they would have to adapt to
disease and the elements in order to remain alive. In Adam and Eve all of us are
somehow still grounded in Eden. In the beginning of the fallen creation, God’s Spirit
provided a protective Presence, like the Presence the Hebrews had as they were being
led out of captivity in Egypt. (Gen. 4:14-16, Exod. 13:21-22) There is a murkiness to
Genesis 1 and 2, a mysteriousness that points to the Mystery of God Himself. I hope
not to desecrate that Truth with my attempts at seeking truth driven by lack of faith,
just to end up wallowing in my own ideas. But I think it just makes sense that God had
intended for all of us to find our being in Eden; only now we find our being in a
corrupted tree of life in a compromise creation. Like the potter in Jeremiah 18:4, who
wanted to make something beautiful on the potter’s wheel, but the clay was flawed in

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his hands, so he compromised and made something else, stretching what he had
available to its limit.
The animals that God had intended to exist in Eden, also found their place in the fallen
existence in a completely different way, in a compromised form.
Job 41:4-6
Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your
house? Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
That last part brings up clear images the large tuna markets like the Tokyo fish market.
We get, for instance, the predators like the pliosaur described in some detail in Job.
Job is an interesting book where you have large drawn-out parts that seem to be
repetitive and not really say much, and then you suddenly get to the profound
revelations that make the book so valuable.
Next point: Adam and Eve’s son Cain murders his brother Abel in Genesis 4. God drives
him from his protective Presence. Cain fears that whoever finds him will kill him, so
God puts a mark on his forehead so that whoever finds him will not kill him, or they
would suffer for it seven times over. Who are the people that Cain fears? I really can
only speculate about this.
Interesting is his lineage in Genesis 4:17–24. Here the Bible introduces us to the
manufacture of musical instruments by Jubal, and of bronze and iron tools. The Iron
age and the Bronze age start from a single individual, Tubal-Cain.
Adam and Eve's other son Seth is the one whose lineage gives rise to Noah. Then the
flood. God saves Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives and: “seven pairs”
(male and a mate) of every kind of clean animal (that is seven pairs of each of the
different familia, or of the different genera, of ruminants excluding the camel, rabbit
and coney), ONE (two?) pair of every kind of unclean animal (every animal- and insect
genera not in the “clean animals” list – a great many!), as well as seven males and
females of each type of bird – representing every kind of bird”. I can accept that those
early animals had strong genomes, like the humans as well – so out of them could
spawn the greater variety of species that came after.
Speaking of human and animal genes: Humans and chimpanzees share 96% of our
DNA. But chimps will never be able to evolve to humans, because of the spiritual law
that God had decreed in Eden. He alots both people and animals their places in the
cosmos and all is subject to the spirit realm. By faith we understand that God made
the tangible from that which is not tangible. (Hebrews 11:3)

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 I think the important part that we must take from the Biblical Flood-account, is indeed
the concept of intercession. In Gen. 8:20-22 Noah brings a burnt sacrifice of clean
animals and clean birds. The sacrifice points to Jesus' sacrifice for sin – a sacrifice
brought once to serve as the eternal Intercession for humanity. (see 1 Pet. 3:18-22.)
Many ancient cultures had a flood-myth:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_flood_myths)
We can speculate about the origin of flood-myths, but floods have always been
common, so there would be flood-stories. What matters about the Genesis flood-story
is that it fits into a trend that runs throughout the Bible. It must not be seen as just a
story that story-collectors added to their Genesis library. On the author(s) of Genesis
– be it Moses or Joseph, or someone else; here is a good article on the Zonervan
website: Who Wrote the Book of Genesis? | Zondervan Academic
Back to the sea monster:
Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible: The Bible refers to a class of animals called
serpents, of which the sea-dwelling leviathan is an example. Some Commentaries call
the leviathan a mythical sea creature. But it is not a myth at all. Psalm 104: 25–27 talks
about the leviathan which God formed. I don't think the leviathan was still around at
the time this psalm was written, because the psalm is a prophetic utterance, ie. the
words are from God. Psalm 104 is a rich psalm which gives insight into how God cares
even for the wild animals; a good psalm to look at if you're interested on the topic of
animals in the Bible, where my previous book: The Origin of Sin, ended.
I see in Ps. 104: 1–19 also a type of the original Creation, before the fall. Note in v. 20
darkness falls and now we get to the present phase of flesh-eat flesh. Note, the flight
of the waters refers to the Creation of Genesis 1 and note specifically in v. 9 that the
waters were “never to cover the earth again”. Yet in Noah's flood it did! – that shows
there's a difference between the original Creation and the present cosmos, although
v.9 may refer to the flood.
Job 41 describes this ancient reptile (Pliosaur, a type of pleisiosaur, fits the description)
which had likely died out a very long time prior. But it is very interesting reading,
describing a sea creature so enormous that it leaves a spectacular wake as it swims
along. It moves along the muddy sea floor leaving deep tracks in the mud – prophetic
of the fossil-record? It does not have blubber for buoyancy and probably relied on
methane formed from digestion in its stomach or (being very large) able to swallow
pockets of frozen methane hydrate from under the deep mud of the sea floor so that
it could surface. Pure speculation, but interesting. That could account for the
“firebrands” and “sparks of fire” as it belched methane gas with lots of compressive

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force. Interesting is that fossils of pliosaurs have been found with round stones in their
stomach – called gastroliths, confirming that they did dredge the bottom of the sea.

SUMMARY

The Bible says in Isaiah 14:12 that, before this fallen reality, satan had already laid low
the nations (us). We know that satan's corruption extends from the beginning of
humanity down to the very last individual. So, from humanity's point of reference, this
fallen reality is all that there ever was, and only the Heavens and the spirits know
better. Adam leads a fallen Creation in his train; the author of our sin, and Jesus leads
a redeemed Creation in Hís train; Author of our salvation. This is the golden thread that
connects all the books of the Bible and this is what I place my hope in.