So I've been watching some stuff from people saying the YHWH of the Old Testament is Satan. I've done so open mindedly and there are arguments they've made that I don't know how to answer yet. I don't think I'm likely to be convinced of it though based on what I read in 2 Peter today.
Right now there is one minor factor of it I feel like addressing. A claim that a description of Yahuah in 2nd Samuel 22 and Psalm 18 is basically the same as Leviathan in Job 41.
First of all. The parallel is more in what they do then of what they look like, no Reptilian/Serpentine features or Coiling is in David's description.
Second, the YouTube videos mentioning this start reading at verse 6 in the Psalm and verse 7 in Samuel. The context setting this up they skip is that David is calling upon Yahuah because he's already under attack by forces from Sheol. Sheol and Saul being spelled the same in Hebrew could be a deliberate word play here, but either way Yahauh may not be the only supernatural entity David is seeing.
Yahuah is described as being in his "Temple" and in the Heavens, but there is also language making it sound like something might be coming up from beneath.
Third, Yahuah is riding a Cherub in verse 10 of the Psalm and 11 in Samuel. There are four Cherubim around The Throne, and Satan is described as the Cherub that Covereth. So what's described here need not be the only thing that can be described that way.
Also the identification of Leviathan with Satan is complicated. In Job I still firmly believe both Behemoth and Leviathan are normal animals Job is being shown, probably ones we would today call Dinosaurs. That word being used symbolically or poetically of Satan in Isaiah 27 or Psalm 74:14 is the same as Satan being represented as a Bird in the Kingdom Parables.
Psalm 104:26 may also be of just the animal. Job 3:8 (where it's translated "mourning" in the KJV) may be using it as the name of a Constellation, possibly the same one called the Crooked Serpent in Job 26:13.
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