It’s probably leftovers shoehorned in from when the bible had adopted stories from a wider pantheon. Leviathan might have had a much bigger role somewhere at one point. May serve as a stand in for ‘controlling the waters of the earth’ and there’s going to be a dozen biblical scholars saying Leviathan represents one of a dozen ancient countries around when it was written (maybe one of them is right, but boring).
For the actual verses though… There is a passage in Isaiah where God will some day slay Leviathan with his pretty cool sword and this is one of the things that marks the end of maybe the end times. So, waking might be one step closer to this whole deal being over with. There’s also some passages in Job that kind of indicate that anything mankind tries to do to Leviathan isn’t going to work because only God is powerful enough to control it (So, trying to freeze it isn’t going to work).
It’s probably leftovers shoehorned in from when the bible had adopted stories from a wider pantheon. Leviathan might have had a much bigger role somewhere at one point. May serve as a stand in for ‘controlling the waters of the earth’ and there’s going to be a dozen biblical scholars saying Leviathan represents one of a dozen ancient countries around when it was written (maybe one of them is right, but boring).
For the actual verses though… There is a passage in Isaiah where God will some day slay Leviathan with his pretty cool sword and this is one of the things that marks the end of maybe the end times. So, waking might be one step closer to this whole deal being over with. There’s also some passages in Job that kind of indicate that anything mankind tries to do to Leviathan isn’t going to work because only God is powerful enough to control it (So, trying to freeze it isn’t going to work).
Also sometimes associated with the beast of the sea in revalations, which is the antichrist