Our verse today can be summarized in one word … “VICTORY!”

Isaiah 27:1 … “In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” Poetic, but theologically accurate.

We here have a “serpent,” also called a “dragon,” both legitimate Biblical names for the devil, for Satan. He was “serpent” in Genesis 3:1, and “dragon” in Revelation 20:2. How’s that for cover to cover Bible exposure?

The wicked one in our Text today is both “punished” and “slain.” With “paqad” meaning “to visit in judgment.” All his wicked deeds … added up, tallied! And “harag” meaning “to kill” or (twice) “to murder.” Strong verbs indeed!

But what about “Leviathan?”

Our verse today, Isaiah 27:2, uses the word twice. Then God Himself used it back in Job 41:1. (“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?” The beginning of a whole long Paragraph about that “monster!”)

Then Psalm 74:14 and Psalm 104:26 employ the term. In the first instance God is again conquering this beast. In the second, God is its Creator, allowing it some room “to play!”

I really believe Isaiah is trying to comfort the Jewish Nation. “Better (Millennial) Days are ahead!” The “enemy” will be totally annihilated! (Sounds like Armageddon to me!)

And just how will God do this? “With His great and strong Sword!”  That’s the Plan! (I find this “string of words” five different times in the Old Testament … “Sword of the Lord!”)

Not including its association with Jesus when He comes again from Heaven to earth, riding that white horse of Revelation 19 … “And the remnant were slain with the SWORD of him that sat upon the horse, which SWORD proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.” Verse 21, King James Version.

What a glorious, summary Verse today!

Let me give it to you, reproduce it … one more time. (One can worship over this exhilarating truth!) “In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”

Amen!

“Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20)

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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