Our Dragon-Slayer Reigns (Isaiah 51:9-16)

Isaiah 51:9-16 calls upon YHWH God to act with might like He did at the first exodus event.  The Exodus is described with sea-terminology such that the place where the dead go is the abyss (today this is sometimes called Davy Jones’ Locker) and Egypt is pictured as a great sea-serpent, a kind of dragon, named Rahab.  It was a death and resurrection event, as a dry road was made through the abyss, for the people of God to pass through it.  It was a foreshadowing of the death and resurrection of Jesus where He bruised the head of the sea-serpent Satan and walked through the abyss.  And He is not only resurrected but He reigns.  Isaiah wrote to those expected to suffer physical persecution and told them not to fear the man oppressing them, how much less should we care what other people think about us?  Fear of man is a kind of idolatry that is not limited to the teenage years but our dragon-slayer reigns and can slay it.

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