The Attack of Behemoth and Leviathan and the Judgments of God. By Robin Kirby-Gatto 5/25/11 Holy Spirit began showing me a few days ago that aother attack was coming against the church in which the enemy was warring with the saints of God. Holy Spirit had revealed weeks prior, at the beginning of the year the attack of Leviathan coming against the Church and during the midst of this attack the enemy kicked up several notches by the time of Passover this year and Holy Spirit said it would continue to increase 20 times more from the attack of the enemy. I began thinking to myself how could the attack get much stronger and God began showing me that Jezebel and Python had began working intermingling and intermittently with Leviathan to keep the saints besieged on every side. However, this past week another devil stepped in with Leviathan to work against the saints. This other devil is called Behemoth. It is in Job 40 and works cooperatively with Leviathan, moreover, according to the Jewish roots and the book of Enoch, Leviathan and Behemoth are one in the same divided into two. Prior to this attack I informed my husband, Rich, that God wanted me to reread Enoch, which he gave me as a Christmas present this past Christmas. Moreover, I received a private message from a friend of mine on facebook and she had clips of the Behemoth spirit and mentioned that John Eckert had a book on the demon. I have not read the book or looked at the clips but have been led of Holy Spirit to engage God for the interpretation of this attack against the saints. This attack is all pointing towards the coming move of God’s Holy Spirit this Pentecost. God showed me that 2011 was going to be the year of walking in God’s promises and God’s glory and had me preach on it New Years eve 2010 crossing over into 2011. As the New Year, 2011 continued Holy Spirit began showing me that the enemy saw the coming move of God’s outpouring and the incoming harvest and would attack the saints in order to come against the anointing of Jesus Christ in us. At the same time Holy Spirit also showed me a fire from God being released by His Holy Spirit to the saints to infuse us and purge us of anything not of God, and prepare us for more of God’s coming fire! Therefore, many things began to manifest unto me by Holy Spirit this past week because of my legal background; God pulled me through law school, where I received my juris doctorate in 2008. Because of my background in law Holy Spirit unveils dimensions of God to me through my gifting of law and the Word. Holy Spirit revealed to me that God is a God of Covenant. As a God of covenant there are processes which have to be carried out in order for the fulfillment of the covenant to manifest in the earth realm. God says in His Word that He works ALL THINGS to our good for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes (Romans 8:28). In order to work things to our good and bring us forth as sons and daughters of the Living God, a process to bring forth the manifestation of the covenant into the earth realm has to be implemented. God showed me through His Word and studies in The Book of Enoch and Jewish studies that His covenant comes forth when the enemy attacks God’s people and His Name Jealous ( Exodus 34:14) would cause Him to step into action and bring forth His covenant by His mighty right arm. Anytime you see God’s right arm in His Word, you usually see the word Justice or God bringing justice to His people. Justice in Hebrew means the righteousness of God. Justice also means to prosper the poor, to bring God’s equity, God’s deliverance to those who are poor in spirit. BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN! The whole purpose of any attack of the enemy that comes forth is to manifest more of God, more of Heaven, into the earth realm through God’s sons and daughters that as it is in Heaven it will also be in earth! It is God’s covenant with His people that He would bring us into acceleration into God’s promises!! What the enemy means for our harm is actually accelerating us into our destiny. I am reminded of by Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 2:8 how the rulers of the age could not understand the mysteries of God, of Christ Jesus, for if they would have understood the mysteries they would have never crucified the King of Glory! Likewise, the demonic rulers of this age cannot understand or fathom the power of God that is poured out and will be poured out upon us, for if they (demonic spirits) did, they would not be attacking us; their attacks are working to our good, not our detriment. Leviathan has attacked the Body of Christ through a seven fold measure operating through the main foothold of satan, which is PRIDE. A note has been posted as to the operation of Leviathan through PRIDE. Proverbs 6:16-19 (seven abominations that God hates) 1) A proud look (2) A lying tongue (3) Hands that shed innocent blood (4) A heart that devises wicked plans (5) Feet that are swift in running to evil (6) A false witness who speaks lies (7) One who sows discord among brethren However, along with Leviathan is the Behemoth spirit that attacks the body of Christ. In The Book of Enoch, a vision was given to Enoch that encompassed an attack that was two fold by Leviathan and Behemoth. Therefore, when Leviathan is attacking, generally you can expect an attack from Behemoth as well. Behemoth is mentioned in the book of Job (Job 40:15-24). Behemoth has an attack that goes along with Leviathan, whereas Leviathan is the sea monster, Behemoth is the desert (land) monster spoken of in the book of Job. It was believed by Jews that God had slain these two monsters early so that they would not reproduce in the earth, bringing great destruction. 15 “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox. 16 See now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles. 17 He moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. 18 His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron. 19 He is the first of the ways of God; Only He who made him can bring near His sword. 20 Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there. 21 He lies under the lotus trees, In a covert of reeds and marsh. 22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade; The willows by the brook surround him.23 Indeed the river may rage, Yet he is not disturbed; He is confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth, 24 Though he takes it in his eyes, Or one pierces his nose with a snare. This creature, the Behemoth is described to have been created along with man, as denoted in the Word (Job 40:15). However, there is a great depiction of the creature by God that it is to capture our attention at the details of this animal’s strength. It is through the depiction of the animal in which we can see how the attack of satan comes at us like that of a Behemoth, making us feel as though we are storm tossed. Likewise, Job’s trials and tribulation that he walked through were indirectly identified through the depiction given by God in the word of Job. As we see God give the depiction of the horse in Job 39:19-25 we see God describing a warrior that is broken for Him and will only do what he is instructed to do by his master, which is simply to obey, and the horse does it with a fire in his belly to go forth into war without considering his own life. We likewise, overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and our testimony, not loving our life unto death. Therefore, Job, through his brokenness by the testing and tribulation he was enduring was becoming broken for the Lord. Job was being mold into one who would go into his destiny without thought for his own life, only to do that which he was told to do by God. Now, in consideration we see God describing Behemoth. It is this depiction that describes the trial in which Job himself is enduring. In Job 40:16 God describes Behemoths strengths being in his hips (his loins) it is this depiction that identifies that Job is being attacked in the TRUTH! The belt of truth in Ephesians 6: 14 girded your waist (hips) with truth. Therefore, the attack of Behemoth is going to come very much like that of which Jesus experienced in the wilderness “If you are the Son of God?” 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘ He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘ In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God. These men tormenting Job are described early on in chapter 30. 1 “But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock. 2 Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished. 3 They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste, 4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.5 They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief. 6 They had to live in the clefts of the valleys, In caves of the earth and the rocks.7 Among the bushes they brayed, Under the nettles they nestled. 8 They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land. 9 “And now I am their taunting song; Yes, I am their byword.” Job 30: 1-9 NKJV. Those that were not even considered of good state and reputation became those who began to mock Job. Remember, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and rulers in the heavenly realm. Therefore, the attack coming through Behemoth will be one that operates through a mocking spirit as seen in Job 30. However, it will not necessarily come from those who are considered foolish. The enemy has to have a foothold in others in order to operate through them. Therefore, the foothold the enemy uses is when others begin to disdain you and being foolish enough to look at their own righteousness and out of their own righteousness which is as filthy rags begin to judge you with impure motives, openly disdaining you, mocking you, treating you with shame and doing it in a manner that is covert. We see the covert operations of Behemoth in Job 40:21 21 He lies under the lotus trees, In a covert of reeds and marsh. This covert operation of the enemy through Behemoth attacks you by being covered up, hidden, among the very place you walk, the place where you are to be at peace, the Church. (I am not speaking about your personal church here. What I am speaking of is the Church in general where the enemy is close enough in proximity to you that he begins to attack you through others who are self-righteous). The foothold or hook whereby the spirit of Behemoth attacks others is through self-righteousness. They are puffed up with so much self-righteousness indicated by the “girding of the loins/hips” and where it describes his strength being in his belly, his stomach, it is through those who have eaten the word of God but through their own self-righteousness begin to throw it against another or inappropriately apply the word through wrong motives of judgment and pride. What is so sad is that the very people that operate in this believe that it is everyone else but them. They do not look at their own failures and lack of righteousness but truly believe they walk in the righteousness of Christ Jesus, not seeing that their motives are impure and heart is deceitful above all. The do not judge themselves but instead judge everyone else and this is easily identifiable because they gather together to gossip and slander those who they judge. Moreover, the fact that in Job the mocking spirit even spits in the face of Job indicates that the self-righteousness of others allowing this spirit to operate moves from being covert, hidden to being brought out in the open. I myself have experienced this beyond measure on many levels. However, the testing or purification for this process that is being allowed is ultimately to bring me void and empty of any self-righteousness whereby I would not judge with righteous judgments (Isaiah 11:1-4) others that are going to come into the Kingdom. It is to purify my judgments, my motives so that I do nothing except for what the Father, God, tells me to do. My motive to do so will not be in proving who I am, but rather demonstrating Christ in me the Hope of Glory! In Job 40:20 the word identifies that the mountains yield food for Behemoth. Therefore, this indicates that the way in which this spirit can operate is through those who are higher in the things of God but even in their maturing in the Lord there is a demonstration of immaturity because instead their acts of disdain and attacking another in the house of God is operating based out of their own self-righteousness. The Pharisees demonstrated this very well in their attacks against Jesus. This same test that we endure of the Behemoth operating through others who walk in a religious spirit, in self-righteousness is to detour us from our destiny our call. This is seen in Luke 13:31-33. 31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ 33 In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! The Pharisees were trying to detour Jesus by bringing a negative report against Him, a mocking spirit that would operate through them to mock Him and bring a bad report against His ministry, His call. Jesus responded to the Pharisee by first of all calling him a fox, which indicates cunning, slyness and trickery. Moreover, the fact that the Pharisee was telling Jesus to leave is an indication of the open display of the enemy to try and uproot you and move you out of a ministry an area so that you will not walk in the call of God or fulfill God’s destiny in your life. Jesus replied to the report with identifying the fruit that He was manifesting in God, demons being cast out, people healed and that He would continue to walk in the call, in His destiny! The enemy will come to you in a sly manner, a cunning manner, stating that you need to leave the area mocking you and the work of God that you are doing. However, it is by our fruit, the demonstration of the righteousness of Christ Jesus, not our own righteousness that identifies how our ministry is proven by God and not man. If you look to man to approve you then you are looking to the wrong person. You are only to look to God to qualify you, approve you and send you. Therefore, when you get hit by Behemoth you will be mocked by others in the church saying leave, we don’t want you around us, kicking you out of their group because you make them uncomfortable while they sit in their own righteousness their righteous works and they mock you from the point of their own righteousness, spitting in your face, showing no love. Then you have to stand only in God, belted with the belt of truth, knowing God’s word. He that began a good work in you will complete it! God has made you a Royal Priesthood a Holy Nation! You are the head and not the tail, above and not beneath! God has a plan to prosper you to give you a hope and a future! God has made you the righteousness of Christ Jesus! God has given you the mind of Christ Jesus! The Word!!! You cannot live by substance that is not of God only the Word, the substance that we eat and partake of to fight this battle in the wilderness.” The devil was getting Jesus to a point to demonstrate and prove that He was the Son of God by turning stones into bread and then throwing himself down so that the angelic host would pick him up. Jesus responded first that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Moreover, in the next temptation Jesus states “you shall not tempt the Lord your God.” Therefore, Jesus is demonstrating that He only does what the Father tells Him to do and He does not bring forth His own sustenance whereby He is sustained. The Behemoth having his strength in the loins is indicating a testing of the Body of Christ in the truth and knowing the truth. Therefore, this attack is going to come against “God’s Word” in you. Similar to the temptation of turning stones into bread, satan is looking for us to defend our ministry by the operation of God’s gifts by His Holy Spirit in our lives, it’s as though satan is wanting us to prove our credibility. However, the way in which you overcome this attack is only by living in the Word as we see Jesus tell satan, that man does not live by bread alone but by the very Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. This temptation comes against us at the time when we are hungry for a Word, for an outward demonstration that God is moving in our lives so that we have proof that God is manifesting His goodness and approval of us. However, when you are going through this attack this is one that will make you feel as though you are in a desert place and it appears that you are not being proven or to many people bearing fruit in the call of God on your life. Therefore, it tests your knowing the call! Many times this attack hits me by stating “Did God tell you to do ministry? Are you sure God is going to come through for you in doing this or that?” It is a TRUTH test to test the TRUTH, God’s Word, in you! Here you have to be girded (in Greek meaning to pierce through and all over) with the truth, the Word, knowing God is not a man that He would tell a lie. Job went through this trial with his friends when they questioned the fact that Job was experiencing so many trials and tribulations that how could it be that God was blessing him since Job looked cursed. However, remember Job’s friends stopped answering Job because to Job he appeared righteous in his own eyes. Therefore, all the trials and tribulations Job went through was to demonstrate his righteousness was as filthy rags and that it was own God’s righteousness that was pure and Holy. Job first describes in Job 29 how he is honored among all and blessed by man and treated as a hero. However, it is in Job 30 that he identifies the treatment to which he gets after it appears as though he is cursed of God. He describes himself in Job 30 being the disdain of all and coming to the point to where others are spitting in his face. 9 “And now I am their taunting song; Yes, I am their byword. 10 They abhor me, they keep far from me; They do not hesitate to spit in my face. 11 Because He has loosed my bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off restraint before me. 12 At my right hand the rabble arises; They push away my feet, And they raise against me their ways of destruction. 13 They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper. 14 They come as broad breakers; Under the ruinous storm they roll along. 15 Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud. Job 30:9-15 NKJV. This is the attack of Behemoth that we see Job going through in Job 30. Here in Job 30 He is disdained and abhorred by others. Moreover, it is not a private issue but done as a demonstration in the face, public display, with Job being mocked (The mocking spirit truly operates through the attack of Behemoth, mocking you while you are doing ministry and mocking you as you are going toward the call of God on your life). Job even goes on to state that others are promoting, glorifying the calamitous state Job finds himself in. Job is terrorized by his own demise, his own circumstances which is obvious to all those around him and there is no honor but only shame. The attack of Behemoth is similar. It is likened to that of Job 30. To be continued in Part II……… Copyright 2011. (You can print and reproduce with the author’s name attached to the work). .

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