could the 'sea' be literal

[buildthefarm]

ok so its 330am and i just woke up from a dream which had nothing to do with this but i got to thinking somehow about the antichrist and revelations. and ive always been taught that the 'sea' that the beast comes out of is metaphorical and it means the masses of people. and im ok with that actually, but something struck me, kind of an odd rabbit trail. ok in several different places the bible calls the sea the home of leviathan,or the great serpent, or that great monster of the sea and so on, its a repeated thing. well then at the end of revelations it says the new heaven and new earth are there and the sea has been done away with because it was home to the great serpent (not exact quote) or something like that.

now in the muslim end times story(which reads just backwards of the Christian story) there is a great leader who is going to come up out of the water in a well, where he fell in hundreds of years ago. now there have been people sitting by this well waiting for him all these hundreds of years in hopes of being the first to see him and this well if i remember correctly is right by the ocean in yemen or saudi arabian or in that general area somewhere. any i know that in revelation 13 there is alot of metaphor:ten horns, the beast looked like a leopard and bear and lion and on and on with the metaphor. but im curious if the beast may literally come up out of the ocean next to that well or the well itself. it all kind of fits to me but who knows it could mean what people think it means just a thought:)

[hearingGod]

hee hee, sure.
if we think about it all.... being cast out into dry, waterless places....they sure don't like it. and going into the pigs which then drowned in the water.
being that a lake of fire is judgement...

i can say there are some nigerian christians that talk about people being abducted and taken to an 'underground water kingdom'...probably akin to ufo abduction stuffs....and that witches and warlocks have went there to train.... ya....bizarre stuff-- is it legit or not...dunno....i'm sure not going to study any fringe stuff like nephillum or any of that... all i needa kno is the light dispels EVERY darkness & that's enuff 4 me. if i knew any testifiers of that stuff personally, then i'd know for sure by the Holy Spirit... but since i don't...could be or not.... am open to whatever He shows.

a mention of water spirits i've heard of when i studied some of the tibetan witchcraft was called 'naga' and i think i saw one when i was in my youth in a flooded creek-bed. at the time i thought my imagination was getting away w/ me...when i saw a snake shape arch up thru a fast current... but it was the size of my thigh...& being in the north...i don't think i've even seen a snake that thick in the zoo. so weirdness abounds but i'm not gonna be fearful. i accept that there is a great amount of stuff we are not shown/can't see & that we overcome by us'in that Word!

[buildthefarm]

yeah i know it really doesn't matter in the long run cuz wats gonna happen is gonna happen. i think im just being brought thru a process of unlearning what i was 'always taught' and learning to be open to what the Bible says and open to all possibilities. we have all seen the ill effects of people doggedly hanging on to the ideas they were 'always taught' at least i think we all see it, idk ive seen it. where people would fight and split the church that Jesus himself said was supposed to be one and act as one. and people split it 1000 different ways over things they or nobody else honestly knows for sure, aside from direct revelation. and then one says they have revelation in one direction and one says they have revelation in another direction and the people have to pick sides. so i ask the question not to pick a side but because its ok to ask, but its not ok to deceive or to walk in 1000 different deceptions as one body.
i hope that was coherent:)