why did Legion fear the deep yet love the sea?

The "deep" in the Bible sometimes refers to a great body of water beyond the heavens, sort of in space and beyond it.
It is associated with the earth when God jammed everything up in

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

We read

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

A flood also came in from outer-space. There's no way those windows are clouds. The Bible describes clouds and the evaporation cycle a number of times, never like this. Besides, it seems there were no clouds and rain on the pre-Noah's flood earth.


Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Now

Job 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

What ocean do you know with a frozen surface?????????????????????????
This is a frozen firmament in space. This is that sea of glass you read about in


Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

God, speaking about Satan as Leviathan says to Job

Job 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Hoary means white or whitish.

When's the last time you saw a white ocean? The Mediterranean sea is called the Great White Sea. I see it everyday, it ain't white.

This is not upon earth,,, no LochNess monster here my friends, this is in the waters above your heads, the waters of

Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Those are they spoken of in

Psalm 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

HeavenS is plural, this is no water in the sky.

And note that Psalms are AFTER Noah's flood. There are still waters above the heavens today.

Leviathan, Satan, leaves a blazing WHITE path behind his serpentine trail through space. Milky Way, anyone?

Having shuffled through Peter Ruckman's outstanding commentary on Job, I leaned back thinking upon the Bible. Suddenly the answer to something I had wondered about in Luke 8 flashed in my mind. I was confused about the 2 following verses dealing with the demon-possessed "Legion"


Luke 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

and

Luke 8:33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

The devils feared the deep (supposedly ocean), yet they rush into water moments later!
Why would they fear the deep but not the lake (Mark calls it a sea)?

I think those evils besought Jesus not to be sent "out into"(v.31) space. They feared being sent into the deep of heaven, as in "deep space". It wasn't so much the water they feared; in fact devils have an affinity for water as can be gathered from the Bible.
Why they feared being commanded to go "out into" the deep in space I can't tell;
most simply maybe, because demons seek embodiement of flesh; what would they embody in space? Who knows, there might be other more terrible reasons.

There is so much more to see between Job and Genesis.

What a great book that King James Bible

Eve and the only 3 things in the wolrd

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

I want to share with you a gem I picked up from Clarence Larkin's insight into the Bible in his tremendous book "Dispensational Truth"

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, (the lust of the flesh) and that it was pleasant to the eyes (the lust of the eyes), and a tree to be desired to make one wise (the pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Isn't that great? I was so exicted when I read this and I wanted to call someone and tell them about it. The puzzle is a perfect fit.

Psalm 119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

I also now realize that what Eve felt towards the tree was not of God, that is, I don't anymore think that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was especially appealing, or attractive in its outward appearance above the rest of the trees of Eden. Furthermore, it is not absolutely clear that this tree was in the midst of the garden, as was the tree of life

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

See there, "every tree" was "pleasant to the sight, and good for food". Eve only felt the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was special because she read her own lust into the tree as goaded by Satan. In fact, the variable is "the pride of life", which the other trees did not offer. Once more, pride is the downfall. It is called "the condemnation of the devil"

1Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

A novice! That's exactly what Adam and Eve were.

It is in this context all the more revealing that John warns of the antichrist seemingly out of the blue 1 verse later

1John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

The spirit of Satan is a most subtle liar, who used, uses, and will use people's own dubiousness towards the word and words! of God, (even before the fall in Eve's case!), to bind their souls into his own condemnation.

God said if you sin
"ye shall SURELY die", Eve said "LEST ye die", Satan said "ye shall NOT surely die"
Genesis 2:17 Genesis 3:3 Genesis 3:4

Eve standing upon the base of her own understanding, was mid-way between the words of God and Satan. Unfailingly, one's own human understanding will be coopted by Satan. 1 verse later, Eve adopts Satan's viewpoint.


People, you are sinners, and you are already dead in your sins and transgressions. Don't let antichrists fool you into questioning God's words. They will try to make you feel stupid and naive for believing all the sayings of the God of the Bible who is blessed forever Amen.

Jesus Christ saves all those who believe in him as the Son of God from eternal death.
He is the promised seed after the fall; speaking to Satan through the serpent God had said


Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed (Jesus); it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Beware of reading your own judgment of the words of God into the Bible. If you want to argue with the Bible, it will give you all the reasons you want to judge it, but it shall stand and you will perish.

Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written (Psalm 51), That thou (God) mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

The irony is that you may not believe this even as your cells are dividing wildly and your flesh is rotting and death beckons.