BIBLICAL MONSTERS

THE
LEVIATHAN
& BEHEMOTH
EXPLAINED
Using Scripture and historical Hebrew writings.
 VERSI ON 1

COMPLIED AND DESIGNED BY

Bradley Stallcup

BIBLICAL COSMOLOGY ART

New Garden City

PRIMARY TRANSLATIONS
ESV | LXX

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

WHAT'S UP WITH THESE TWO

CREATURES? WHEN WERE
THEY MADE AND WHY?
WHAT'S THEIR PURPOSE?
I've learned that it's very important to read all the verses you can find about a topic in order to get context. Often times the

pictured painted in the bible is all over the place because we are reading writings about topics that the readers back then

already understood. Stories about these creatures were passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Now we're picking up the pieces.

We are in someways taught to avoid this topic all together. Some footnotes even refer to the Leviathan as a hippo or

alligator. That's completely foolish! The description in Job is of a massive sea dragon that shoot fire from it's mouth. Plus,

Yeshua comes to destroy both the Leviathan and the Behemoth of these creatures on the Day of the Lord. Some battle that'd

be if he just killed an alligator. It'd be quite the buzz-kill for the most epic day of existence. On the other hand, a huge part of

what makes Jesus' return so jaw-dropping is how he one hit KOs both of these sea Monster that God literally created for that

very purposes. The Bible says that every knee will bow to his son Yeshua and wouldn't you after you saw some thing like that?!

Among everything else that happening in that time!

Clearly theres somethings way more and thats what we're about to find out. We're about to learn more about how amazing

our Creator is and just how much he care for his people in a way that certainly surprised me. We'll also gain a much clearer

perspective of how absolutely awesome Yeshua's will be at his return. Movie don't even go to this level.

Let's get on it and as always we want to give all Glory to the Most High who made these bad boys. Praise YAH!
 IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS

DEFINE OUR TERMS

I think it's very important to define what we know about the characters, based on scripture. What are their roles and when are

they're roles finished, how did they come about, why are the bad guys bad? It help to think of this like watching a movie. When

we watch movies or read other books understanding the backstory of each character, we' have a clearer understanding of the

authors intended meaning. So lets first define a few types of speech the author uses and who the characters of this story are -

at least to the best of our knowledge.

This is used a lot in scripture because many of the

Pr���s
authors have this kind of confidence in God's
promises, as well all should. For example this type

: ANTICIPATION : such as of speech is used often in reference to the Day of

the Lord, our resurrected bodies and even in
the representation or assumption of a future modern music such as Joy to the World - "He
act or development as if presently existing or rules the world with truth and grace...."
accomplished Understanding this use of speech makes a lot
more of the Bible very clear! It's a huge blessing.
You'll see the writer of Psalms speak of slaying the
Leviathan as if it had already happened. That is
proleptic speech

Ag�cy
: a person or thing through which power is Communicated through the agency of the
exerted or an end is achieved : ambassador. Every time an Angel shows up and
INSTRUMENTALITY speak to someone on earth, that person falls on
their face in worship, not to the angel but to the
Most High because they know that this angel is
relaying a message from Yahweh. That's how
agency works.
 THE GOOD GUYS

The Fa�� The Heavenly Father of all, the final Judge during
HEBREW : El, YHWH, Yahweh, Yahuah, the White Throne Judgment and the creator of the
ENGLISH : God, The LORD, The Most High, Heavens, the Earth and all that is in it.
the Almighty One, the LORD of Hosts
The Son of Man, The Son of God, the firstborn of
Creation and the Lamb. He lived a righteous life and
willingly died on the cross in order to go to Sheol,
snatch the keys to death and return to Heaven as our
Eternal High Priest granting him the ability to petition
The S� to YHWH on our behalf, thus giving us forgiveness of
sins and replacing the earthly high priest position. He
HEBREW: Yeshua, Yahshua, Yahusha
is also the most epic warrior of all time and will return
ENGLISH: Jesus, Son of Man, the Messiah
to slay the wicked and save the righteous at the same
time. Jesus is an integral part in the plan to restore
the Earth back to the way it was in the Garden and the
Father has given him all power and authority until the
mission is over.

Angels A type of Elohim who's role is to be messengers of

YHWH. They deliver messages in the agency of
HEBREW : Malachim (plural) YHWH and also defend men against the rulers of
ENGLISH : Angel the power of the air and unclean spirits. They can
also disguise themselves as men - so that's cool.
 No movie can be understood without the context of where each scene takes place.
Scriptures paint a different picture of the locations talked about in this "movie." It
LOCATIONS
helps make the story much clearer when we use the Scriptures about heaven and
earth to visualize where these creatures are. and what the battle would look like.

There's that little stinker.

This depiction has a good
visual guesstimate of
where Leviathan would be.
 When you dig into it, you'll begin to see that our model of the Heavens and earth is
LOCATIONS clearly not what they had understood back then. Or really any other culture ever.
LOCATIONS This is a massive study on it's own that
absolutely worth investigating.
READINGS

LEVIATHAN AND
BEHEMOTH ARE
UNLEASHED & SLAIN
FOR FOOD FOR THE
SURVIVORS OF THE
DAY OF THE LORD
Created on Day Five

GE N E SI S 1: 21
20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea creatures and
every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and
every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed
them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
The First Flesh Created

J U BI LE ES 2 : 1 1
11 These three kinds He made on the fourth day. And on the fifth day He created great sea
monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by
his hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds
and all their kind.

Too Large To Live Together Anywhere on Land

2 E S DRAS 6 : 42
42 Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh
part of the earth: six parts hast thou dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some
being planted of God and tilled might serve thee.

2 E S DRAS 6 : 47 - 52
47 Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it
should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass. 48 For the dumb
water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people
might praise thy wondrous works. 49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou
calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan; 50 And didst separate the one from the other: for the
seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. 51
Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the
same part, wherein are a thousand hills: 52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part,
namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.

Reminds me of a Psalm...

P S AL M 50: 10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Behemoth Male and Leviathan Female?

1 E NO C H 60 : 7 - 1 0
7 “And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in
the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. 8 But the male is named Behemoth,
who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden
where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from
Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created. 9 And I besought the other angel that he
should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the
one into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. 10 And he said
to me: ' Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.’”

Job | The Most High Describes Behemoth

J O B 4 0 :1 5 -1 9
15 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox. 16 See the
strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly. 17 His tail sways like a cedar; the
sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. 18 His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron. 19
He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him. 20 Surely the
mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady
trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the
willows of the brook compass him about. 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he
trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose
pierceth through snares.

Job | The Most High Describes Leviathan

J O B 4 1: 1 -34 | E S V
1 “Can you draw out Leviathanb with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
J O B 4 1 :1 - 34 | E S V (C ON T. )

5 Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!
9 Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
10 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
15 His back is made ofd rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19 Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
22 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.
24 His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, the mightye are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.
29 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30 His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
33 On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
34 He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
Abraham's Vision of Creation

AP O CA LY PS E O F A B RA H A M 2 1: 3 - 5
And (I saw) there the earth and its fruit, and its moving things and its things that had souls, and
its host of men and the impiety of their souls and their justification, and their pursuit of their
works and the abyss and its torments, and its lower depths and (the) perdition in it. And I saw
there the sea and its islands, and its cattle and its fish, and Leviathan and his realm and his bed
and his lairs, and the world which lay upon him, and his motions and the destruction he caused
the world. I saw there the rivers and their upper (reaches) and their circles.

Leviathan Used For Sport

J O B 4 0: 14 ( L X X)
“This is the chief of the creation of the Lord. Made to be played with by his angels.

J O B 4 1 :2 4 - 2 5 ( L XX)
There is nothing on the earth like him. Formed to be sported with by my angels. He beholds
every high thing. And he is king of all that are in the waters.

P S AL M 1 0 4 : 24 - 26
O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your
possessions. There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number, Animals
both small and great. There the ships move along, And Leviathan, which You have formed to
sport in it.

Yeshua Slays Both Creatures

I S AI A H 2 7 :1
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan
the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
AM O S 9: 3
Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from there; And
though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will command
the serpent and it will bite them.

P S AL M 7 4: 1 3 - 14
13 You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monstersd on the waters. 14
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Used for Food for Survivors of the Day of the Lord

2 BAR U CH 2 9 : 3 - 4
And it shall come to pass when all is accomplished that was to come to pass in those parts, that
the Messiah shall then begin to be revealed. And Behemoth shall be revealed from his place and
Leviathan shall ascend from the sea, those two great monsters which I created on the fifth day of
creation, and shall have kept until that time; and then they shall be for food for all that are left.

2 E S DRAS 6 : 5 2
And though has kept them to be eaten by whom thou wilt and when thou wilt.

P S AL M 7 4: 1 3 - 14
13 You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. 14
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

P S AL M 7 4: 1 3 - 14 ( L XX )
Thou didst establish the sea and thy might, though didst break to pieces the head of the dragon
in the water. Though didst break in pieces the head of the dragon, thou didst give him [for] meat
to the Ethiopian nations.
AM O S 9: 3
Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from there; And
though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will command
the serpent and it will bite them.

1 EN OCH 60 : 12
And the angel of peace who was with me said, these two monster are by the power of God,
prepared to become food, that the punishment of God might not be in vain

1 EN OCH 60 : 2 4
And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: ' These two monsters, prepared
conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed . . .[fragment ends]

LOGICAL INSERTION
If these sea monsters are to be used as food for the survivors of Jesus

wrath against the wicked, then it would make sense that God would

have created them to be clean to eat. After looking at these

descriptions I'm not sure about Behemoth, however there are no

disqualifiers and Leviathan sounds like he is clean because he has

scales etc.. Read Leviticus 11:3&9 for the breakdown. So on top of that

fact that this is an epic insta-kill battle after which every knee will

certainly bow, it looks like God continues to keep his standards

because He does not change and His ways are perfect.

 NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

THANK YOU FOR

READING THIS!
I just want you to know that this topic is the gift that keep on giving. It

seems to me that each generation is being given more from the Spirit

than the last and I praise the Lord for that, but if you found any holes in

this presentation of Scripture please reach out to me and let me know.

(I can always revise it and print another.) The intent of this book was to

get you thinking about what scripture says and not what doctrine of

men have taught us, but I still have more to learn and your feedback is

greatly appreciated. Also let me know if you learned something new

that totally clicked for the first time! I hope it brings you to adore your

heavenly father, his son and his plan to fix everything on a whole new

level. This is a piece of the most epic story of all time and I hope you see
it more clearly now.

- Bradley
NOTES
NOTES
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty

sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing

serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay

the dragon of the sea.

ISA IAH 27 :1