how many of you guys have heard this
story before the brave knight defeated
the fire-breathing dragon he rode off
with a beautiful princess and they lived
happily ever after you guys heard that
yes and stuff like that yeah yeah but is
it true I mean our dragons is nothing
more than just the stuff of fables buddy
hey you know what the Bible talks about
dragons and that right there should grab
people's attention it actually talks
about dragons significantly in the Old
Testament not just one book but all over
throughout the Old Testament so when the
Bible speaks of a creature as being a
real creature we need to take notice
that's right so let's dive into this
let's jump into dragons let's look at
them a little bit more detail yes let's
start off here buddy why do so many
people in their culture today believe
dragons are just mere fantasy where is
that coming from I think the primary
reasons we don't find them I mean that's
happened over and over again will you
look historically if people couldn't
find anything they're just like oh it's
a myth and you know we started to see
trends like this for example there was
the dodo bird okay dodo is something I
used to think you call your brother yeah
you dodo bird but there's a bird right
right and there's these ancient accounts
where people would see these dodos these
Sailors would stop by uh and kill them
Harvest them for meat and take off and
so there's all these accounts of it but
when people started showing up there
later on they're like we don't see any
yeah a few hundred years ago they
thought that dodoberry was a mix because
number one there were strange creatures
number two no one could find them and
number three they only existed in these
old stories and drawings kind of sound
familiar there's a kind of parallel the
dragons so for a long time scientists
were saying dodos are a myth until they
found a specimen that had been stuffed
and put in a museum and they're like oh
wow it was real now of course they found
some fossil evidence of it and so forth
so we need to be very careful of jumping
into that and what happened back in the
day you know think 15 16 1700s
a lot of the world wasn't discovered we
were still discovering places and
finding places and so if you didn't
happen to find a creature in one place
you just assumed it was living somewhere
else this idea that they had gone
extinct
was just who would have thought it yeah
you think about like elephants and
rhinos like what would happen if they
were to go extinct today I mean maybe
100 years 200 years from now they could
also have that same logic and say well I
guess they were a myth but if it wasn't
for all of our uh restrictions and
endangered species acts elephants would
probably go extinctive Indians just be
doing to repeat the same mistake over
and over again yeah so dragons dinosaurs
and dragons uh there's actually a
connection between the two and I want
people to understand the word dinosaur
is a new word do you remember what year
it was that it was invented 1841 1841
Sir Richard Owen came up with this term
means uh terrible or terrifying lizard
so we start digging up all these
dinosaur bones and we start calling them
dinosaurs and we disconnected them from
being dragon bones because during this
time from about the 1500s to the 1800s
we really weren't finding too many
dinosaur-like dragon-like creatures yeah
the bottom line here the belief that
dragons are a myth is actually a modern
idea it was vented after they went
extinct I mean up until the 20th century
I mean it was essentially they were real
creature I mean think about from uh 1902
here the Encyclopedia Britannica said
that dragons might still exist yet their
numbers are a few and then just eight
years later in 1910 all of a sudden the
encyclopedia the Britannica published
that Dragons Were myth and the reason
that they published that is someone said
there were still some dragons living up
in the Alps that's a mountain range over
in Europe a guy went up there he
couldn't find him so he said well
therefore they're a myth you see even
then people are struggling with this
idea that things could go extinct not in
the 1800s people were entertaining that
idea but it really wasn't super common
at that particular point we're starting
to see it more and more as people
started to dive into these ideas and
look at fossils and we'll dive into more
but really I I would say the main reason
why is because our culture has been
heavily influenced by The evolutionary
worldview really by that religion of
secular humanism Even in our church
today so many Christians are buying into
that evolutionary worldview and The
evolutionary worldview you know obvious
obviously dinosaurs living with humans
doesn't quite fit their timeline because
dinosaurs went extinct millions of years
ago yeah so when they hear these Legends
they say it's impossible it can't be
because it doesn't fit their time right
even though those are right there listed
with all these other creatures it's not
just you know from the Bible we also see
it from ancient commentaries ancient
historians ancient scientists and so
forth so we actually have quite a few
accounts of these sorts of creatures
they just weren't called Dinosaurs they
were called dragons but let's look at
this from a Biblical viewpoint let's
just step back and start you go back to
the Bible dinosaurs which by definition
are actually land animals now I know so
there's flying reptiles and sea reptiles
they're not actually technically
considered dinosaurs they would have
been made on day five of creation
dinosaurs would have been made on day
six of creation what day was Man created
you guys remember
so man and dinosaurs which dinosaurs are
a subset of Dragons Dragon is more of an
overarching term it included dinosaurs
but it also included other creatures but
they would have been living at the same
time so when we start with the Bible it
makes sense that they were living at the
same time and it was a perfect world
everything was perfect originally that's
what we expected from a perfect God but
then when Adam and Eve sinned and
everything fell into sin guess what we
started to see some animals turn they
start to become bad they're meat eating
and things like that originally all the
animals and man were vegetarian
according to Genesis 1 29 and 30.
so some of these animals were eating
this some of them were very vicious
then we see the flood the flood of
Noah's day hey we're dinosaurs and
dragonlike creatures uh we're uh were
they on the ark what do you think they
were because remember whether the
Genesis 6 say that every single pair of
land animal every kind of land animal
had to go on to the ark so obviously
right they had to include dinosaur kind
so you see from the biblical worldview
remember as Christians we got to always
start all of our thinking based on God's
word we got to have our world view based
on the founded Solid Rock of God's right
when we do it's no surprise that there
are accounts of dragons living among men
with the Bible they come off the ark
they go all over the place we expect to
see these accounts they've been coming
out the art they've been dying ever
since
um so of course man lived among these
awesome creatures from the very
beginning day five he made the flying
and sea creatures which included the
pterodactyl and the plesiosaur kind
which we would call dinosaurs today and
then like buddy said day six God made
all the land animals which include the
dinosaurs and all the other land dragons
the same day he created man and then
they went on to the ark and then most of
them got got uh flooded away though they
that's right that's what you know the
bones we find in the ground you know
these different fossils and these
dinosaur graveyards for example that's a
record from the flood of Noah's day and
that's actually in Conflict what the
world says the world assumes that these
Rock layers were laid down slowly and
gradually over millions and billions of
years they assumed there were no major
catastrophes like a global flood that
laid down those Rock layers but when we
start with the Bible
there's a global flood everything under
the whole Heavens was covered with water
it laid down the vast majority of those
Rock layers quickly over the course of
about a year that's right of course
we've had Rock layers since then but
most are from the flood of nose say same
evidence we find dinosaurs in three of
those Rock layers boom yeah so they were
found in what the Triassic Jurassic and
Cretaceous and what's the reason why we
only find those dinosaur bones mainly in
those three strata well you got to
understand the way that they Define some
of these Rock layers a rock layer is
defined by what they find in it and they
have different index fossils and if you
find one of those index fossils and it's
in one of those Rock layers that's what
defines it so let's say you have a rock
layer that's not one of the dinosaur
rock layers like a Permian rock layer
for example which is lower than where
the three dinosaur rock layers are so
let's say you're looking in there and
all of a sudden you find a dinosaur
guess what happens they redefine that
rock layer to be one of those three
dinosaur rock layers you see so it's
kind of arbitrary the way that they do
some of that so we do have to be careful
and I believe you also have a chapter in
this book here called Dinosaurs dragons
and the Bible just came out by this guy
Bodie Hodge I believe it's uh one of the
chapters actually talks about that so if
you guys want to dive more into those
details there
but in terms of
um those fossils obviously the uh most
of the fossils that we see around this
is the graveyard of the flood that
happened 4300 years ago but what's the
reason why we don't find humans for
example with Dinosaurs what's the quick
answer to that well there's a number of
factors but they probably weren't living
in the same place you know like what are
the odds if there was a global flood
today what are the odds you and a lion
are going to get buried together
it's probably not going to happen right
Plus there wasn't a whole lot of people
we sometimes think oh wow the world was
populated like it is today no it really
wasn't there was only 10 Generations
from Adam to NOAA that's it just 10
Generations so I mean you could
potentially get up you know a few
million people but you also have to
think
120 years before the low uh the Before
the Flood God said hold it the Earth is
violent every thought is evil all the
time think of this if the entire world
was that evil and that terrible and that
violent and they're all murderers the
population of the Earth Cuts in half in
one day you know how many people were
actually there by the time the flood
actually hit probably wasn't a whole lot
of people anyway yeah so yeah and plus
by that logical thinking a lot of
Evolutions say you know because we don't
find humans alongside dinosaurs
therefore they couldn't have lived
together but obviously if you think
about it that's a logical fallacy there
I mean obviously we don't find
crocodiles buried with humans did they
ever say that crocodiles and humans
didn't live together exactly so we're
seeing cans that's another one yeah yeah
exactly so yeah these are called you
know one says living fossils but you
know we've lived at the same time just
because you see certain things in the
fossil record isn't necessarily an
indication whether they live together or
not yeah if you guys want more details
check out Bowie's book there's a chapter
on that talks a little bit more about
those details there dinosaurs let's go
back to the Bible quick here so in terms
of the Bible here why don't we find the
word dinosaur in the Bible well like we
said the word dinosaur is a new word
prior to 1841 they would have been known
as a different creature there have been
called dragons and in fact a lot of our
early translations of the Bible into
English were in the 15 and 1600s you
might think of the Geneva Bible that the
pilgrims brought over that was down the
1500s Tyndale there was the Coverdale
the great Bible The Bishop's Bible and
people are arguing over which Bible and
so what they did is they came together
and they got a standardized translation
which we call the King James 1611 of
course has gone through a number of
revisions but most of our modern
translations one way or another still
have roots and ties back to the King
James so it makes sense why we don't
find it in there because the the Bible
is essentially translated before the
word even existed yeah kids have any
guesses on where dragons are mentioned
in the bible any guesses here
that's right Joe Joe Ford he talks about
the Behemoth right it's more of like a
sauropod or a giant Brachiosaurus as
well as job 41 talks about the Leviathan
right leviathans it's called the dragon
there maybe like a chronosaurus or
something similar to that and the Hebrew
word there is called tannin or tanonym
which means serpent dragon or sea
monster based on the context it's not
just in jail but it's in Genesis Exodus
Numbers Deuteronomy Psalms Isaiah that's
just the name a few it's all over the
Old Testament right we find that word in
there and uh you know it's interesting
though when we look at modern
translations uh we don't even find the
word Dragon sometimes which is very odd
why you'll see it in a metaphorical
sense there was a big shift in the 1800s
particularly the late 1800s where people
said hey maybe if these dragons are a
myth which was the idea floating around
out there well then they can't be real
creatures so we shouldn't translate this
as Dragon we should translate it to
something else and then there's this
little lull period in there where they
didn't know what to translate it as so
they're translating as palm trees and
all sorts sorts of creatures and and
things like that and you're like what
are they doing and then a lot of them
actually settled on jackals even though
there's another Hebrew word for Jackal
that is used in the Bible but that was
actually a very odd shift and we're just
now starting to see people say hey maybe
we should go back here and reevaluate
this even if you read some of the
footnotes nowadays the Behemoth is maybe
an elephant or a rhino or a hippo or
something like that but those those
things have tails like a cedar tree
right an elephant yeah their description
doesn't match do they no they really
don't uh you know when you actually look
at the description given for something
like Leviathan or something like the
Behemoth they just don't match our
modern creatures whether it's an
elephant whether it's a hippo or in the
situation of a leviathan it doesn't
match a crocodile you know for example
the Leviathan you could not pierce it
with darts or arrows and yet a crocodile
could be shot with an arrow and God
gives it a lot of detail in terms of
like what the Behemoth was what the
Leviathan was and he mentions it along
all of these other real creatures so
obviously it's it it doesn't make sense
for God to all of a sudden switch to a
mythological creature in between that
sentence there so obviously had to be a
real creature you know what else we find
we find a lot of evidence of man and
dinosaurs living at the same time that's
not necessarily just from the Bible
either even though we have plenty of you
know if it's in the Bible of course
that's that means it's true but we find
a lot of conformational evidence of this
these would be like petroglyphs and cave
drawings and etchings and things like
that in various parts of the world and I
actually like studying some of this
there's old books that's been written on
it of course I have a chapter in the
book yeah virtually every single
continent around the world there's
examples of paintings of walls uh
Pottery textiles petroglyphs those
ancient artwork of dragons but are those
for real
yeah and and they're right alongside
creatures you'd readily recognize for
example Bishop Bell uh died around the
year 1500 he's buried in a church there
in England and aren't you guys glad we
don't bury people in the church nowadays
you know I remember when I was over in
England you know I'd be walking around
in these churches and I'm like walking
on all the graves I'm like I just don't
feel right about this but uh Bishop Bell
died there and he's got a brassing that
goes along the outside that kind of
outlines where his grave is right there
and they have a rug over it now but when
you're there uh if you if you pull that
back you can see on this brassing
there's all sorts of little animals and
you're like oh I know that one yep I
know that one I know that one looks like
a dinosaur that one looks like a
dinosaur you know so you see these
dinosaur dragon looking creatures right
there and you know that's just one of
many examples and that's in the 1500s
yeah there's several examples in both
these books so make sure you guys check
it out but just as a flavor here I mean
there was a Petroglyph by the Anasazi
natives look strikingly like a sauropod
dinosaur in other words a dragon there's
a pathograph made by Native Americans in
Utah the Flying Dragon kind of looks
like a pterosaur uh there's even the
wall mounted scripture I think this
one's amazing in Cambodia of a dragon it
looks like a Stegosaurus
will be amazing yeah just just the
picture right there plus there's
paintings in Australia by the Aborigines
of a water dragon kind of looks like a
plesiosaur and on and on it goes plus
there's even Flags there's banners I
mean just look at the Welsh flag today
look at the Imperial China flag today
there's dragons on these flags so
obviously people for a long time believe
that these were real creatures right let
me explain something for just a moment
the word Dragon uh you know what's the
equivalent you know of what we're
actually talking about here you know is
is dinosaurs and dragons basically just
the same thing now dragon is more of an
overarching term it included the
dinosaurs but it also includes the
flying reptiles a lot of the sea
reptiles think of like a plesiosaur for
example or chronosaurus uh kind of thing
it would even include large Serpentine
snake-like creatures or even things like
crocodiles and alligators by technical
definition they would actually fit under
this auspice of being a dragon so
sometimes when I see the word Dragon
it's like well now let me look at the
context is this a flying dragon a sea
dragon or a land dragon if it's a land
dragon then I'm like okay well is this
particularly a dinosaur see dinosaurs
actually have a unique definition too A
lot of people don't realize that a
dinosaur is defined by its hip
structures it's got one of two Hip
structures so that it raises its body up
off the ground that's why something like
a crocodile or an alligator or a Komodo
dragon they're not they're not
considered dinosaurs because their hip
structures have their legs coming out to
the side that's called sprawling and
their belly rests on the ground exactly
but let me ask you this buddy so maybe
um is it possible these ancient people
just dug up these these ancient dinosaur
bones because we've been finding these
dinosaur fossils for thousands of years
is it possible they just dug up these
bones and maybe interpreted what they
could have looked like and then that's
what they painted on the walls what do
you think you know that's a common uh
excuse that I oftentimes hear from say
The evolutionary side because you know
in the secular World they have man and
dinosaurs separated out by 65 66 million
years so they're in their mindset man
could never have seen a dinosaur to get
these petroglyphs or to get these
different uh descriptions of dragon like
dinosaur-like creatures so they have to
try to come up with something so their
their best bet is hey here's some
fossils let's pull it out let's put them
together and let's wow maybe this is a
dragon you know that's a common thing
that I get but you know what very few
people actually pulled those bones out
put them all together and actually did
some sort of study to get that far you
know they might have found a big bone
but they didn't even know what that bone
was it comes from the misconception that
when we find the fossil all of a sudden
we got the huge hole structure together
you know with the tail and the head and
arms obviously no we don't find that we
find little pieces here little pieces
there right so and even trying to say oh
you know for example I love this image
sitting here behind us
um you know we we draw out dinosaurs but
we're doing that based on their bones we
don't actually know the color of many of
these types of things you know we find
some skin imprints they were scaly
creatures for example so we can find
that a lot of the old depictions of uh
dragons for example oftentimes had like
Dragon fuzz or something like that
somewhere or they were more streamlined
to their body we do a lot of guesswork
when we put these together and one of
the things that people have done over
the years when they find a dinosaur
everybody wanted the biggest dinosaur
you'd make the news oh my T-rex is
bigger than your T-Rex I mean that's
what people were doing they wanted them
to be big and massive so when they
actually calculated out their body mass
they were using mammal type body mass
calculations and so you see these big
heavy uh triceratops or big heavy
T-Rexes but you know people started
reevaluating this maybe 15 20 years ago
started saying hold it these were
reptilian-like creatures why not do a
body mass more like a reptilian creature
when you do that they actually seem a
little more streamlined if they did have
dragon-like features you could say whoa
these really did match up fairly well
and on top of that I mean there's even a
lot of historical counts of dragons
let's talk a little bit about that as
well in terms of uh example Pliny back
in 80 70 he said Africa produces
elephants but it's India that produces
the largest as well as the dragon even
Aristotle he said the dragon when it
eats fruit it swallows Endive juice and
it has been seen in the act right so and
we can keep going on and on and on yeah
there's a number of Herodotus and others
you know that commented on them one of
my favorites is about these winged
snakes that would fly in from the
marshes of yeah Arabia toward uh uh
Egypt and the Ibis Birds this is why the
Egyptians love the Ibis Birds they would
attack him and take their eggs and kill
them and Destroy them you know to stop
because they had this poison that was
pretty pretty vicious on him 22 in this
book a lot of cool references here for
example her other tests like we talked
about an ancient Greek writer he records
there is a place in the Arabia modern
Egypt situated very near the city of
buta to which I went on hearing of some
winged serpents and when I arrived there
I saw bones and spines of serpents in
such quantities as as it would be
impossible to describe the form of the
serpent is like that of the waters think
but he has wings without feathers and as
like as possible to the wings of a bat
kind of sound like a dragon you guys
yeah and he's describing other animals
at the same time if you actually read
through all these contacts
um you know what I found was fascinating
was you know these uh creatures
oftentimes lived in a swamp or a marsh
you know for example those ones I just
mentioned that were coming from Arabia
they said they were coming from the
marshes people look in Arabia today
there isn't much for marshes or swamps
now we have evidence that the place used
to be much more like that and it's dried
up it's more desert but at the same time
we look at other parts of the world
we've drained a lot of swamps and and
turned them into Farm ground we've
destroyed marshes a lot of them have
dried out I suggest that a lot of their
habitat was really going away and by the
15 to the 1800s you know as we've really
spread out to other places and destroyed
a lot of that we've destroyed a lot of
their habitat and that could be one of
the reasons that the numbers have
significantly declined yeah so what are
some of those reasons why let's let's
talk about that in terms of why they
went extinct why don't we see them today
anymore
well the number one reason
sin we need to remember that we need to
look at the world from a Biblical
viewpoint we are in a sin cursed and
broken world and that's why you know God
made the world perfect it was very good
according to Genesis 1 31 Deuteronomy 32
4 says every work of god is perfect
that's we expected from a perfect God
but we're not in a perfect world anymore
we already think Kirsten broken one when
Adam and Eve sinned against God God
cursed the ground he cursed the animals
he sentenced man to die
so we're in a world that's broken and we
see all sorts of animals dying out and
going extinct dinosaur dragon-like
creatures they're no exception that
we've just seen them in whole categories
but you know you mentioned the
endangered species list before I mean
imagine how many creatures today would
have went extinct if we would have
enacted that we'd probably wondered if
there's any big cats like lions and
cheetahs and tigers or Elephants or
Condors or Eagles I mean a lot of those
things
we might be sitting around wondering if
they're a myth yeah exactly and so
there's also those environmental factors
because after the arc after the global
flood there was an Ice Age reptiles
usually don't do well in those kind of
environments there's lots of diseases
plus they were probably hunted by a man
you think about every single dragon
legend what happens at the end of these
Dragon Legends usually dinosaur gets
killed yeah usually they did so it could
have been one of the most States okay
what is the most famous Dragon account
do you know who it was do you remember
St George yeah yeah you know St George
is the patron saint of England when I
was in Sweden I went to gomla stand the
old town and they had this big statue of
Saint George slaying the dragon St
George was actually a Christian but he
was a Roman soldier about ad300 and he
was stationed in North Africa and
apparently in North Africa there was
this Village that was being attacked by
this Dragon living out of this Marsh out
of the swamp and it would come out and
it would it would attack so what they
decided to do is say hey let's feed it
some sheep sheep so they started taking
a couple sheep out to it and they'd come
out and start eating all sheep and well
it got bigger
and they ran out of sheet so start
terrorizing again they're like oh no
well we got to understand this was a
pagan culture and they're like oh no so
so they said we need to appease our Gods
maybe we need to do human sacrifice to
this Dragon maybe that'll appease him
and so they started casting lots think
of like rolling Dice and they'd narrow
it down finally somebody was taken out
and they were sacrificing people to this
Dragon they go on time to a stake so
they cast lots one day and lo and behold
it fell on the King's Daughter King
didn't like that he wanted somebody else
to take the place
guess what no one volunteered for that
job oh my God so there she was tied to a
stake that's when St George happened by
and uh this Dragon came out he he lands
that he speared it he didn't kill it
though he actually tied it up dragged it
back to the village and slayed it in
front of everyone to show everybody it
was just an animal
so he rescued the princess and whether
he wanted in return for all of those uh
Valiant efforts he just wanted to be
able to preach Christianity yeah amen
for that according to the account they
said the entire Village gave their lives
the Lord it was no small village by the
way if you look at the ancient standings
yeah the King was willing to give up
half of his kingdom for this guy and
he's like no I don't want any of that I
just want to preach the good news of
Jesus Christ now Rome didn't like that
Rome actually wanted him to recant his
Christianity wouldn't do it and so uh to
cut the story short they actually put
Saint George to death plus there's lots
of other Dragon Slayers in history I
mean you guys yeah guys like Saint
Sylvester sigured Beowulf Tristan even
the apostles Philip and Barnabas even in
the first century they haven't recorded
in the counter yeah encounter as well so
we see quite a bit of that kind of stuff
going on so you know when it comes to
dinosaurs and dragons I think you know
when we step back and we start with the
Bible it makes sense of dinosaurs it
makes sense of dragons and these
accounts especially in the same curse
and broken world yeah on and on again
and again from the biblical worldview it
makes sense that we would have all of
these historical counts of man living
with dragons living with dinosaurs but
again from The evolutionary worldview it
doesn't make sense because they believe
dinosaurs died out 60 to 65 million
years ago that's why it's so important
as Christians we get back to having the
right Christian worldview that's built
on the solid rock of God's word and when
we do it's a great confirmation of what
scripture says yeah yeah so I absolutely
loved doing this book I actually spent
five years working on this book and I
tried to write it in such a way that
most people could read it I tried to
shoot for say a junior high level and uh
with that I mean smart Juniors would
have no problem reading this book
adults shouldn't have a problem diving
into it there's a few sections that are
more semi-technical jump up but I'd say
by and large most people can grab this
book and you can say he gets pretty
fired up about this topic that's right
fire fire that I wasn't dragging my feet
on this yeah yeah I heard really good at
Dragon pun the other day both it was so
good it just flew over my head
no no
that's a good one I'll give you that one
but really okay buddy but huge fire
breathing creatures really I mean come
on God would never create a fire
breathing creature right well I've heard
that one for years okay I love it but
not just you know like a leviathan was
considered fire breathing you know when
you read the context in job one
um but you also see fiery serpents back
in the Books of Moses you also see the
fiery flying serpent uh in the book of
Isaiah so I mean there were creatures
that were doing this sort of thing but
weren't a culture today that would deny
such a thing could happen and yet
there's a little bug called a bombardier
beetle Bombardier beetle some people
call it this little Beetle takes two
chemicals shoots it into a chamber and
is hind in and shoots it out fires it
out it ignites
and it's not the kind of fire that's
going to burn your village down but it
will burn you you can hear it when this
thing goes off you're like whoa what was
that and it's got incredible aim you
know it's an insect you know it moves
its legs and shoots in all these
different directions I saw a video of
this one time uh where this ant came up
and it just just burnt the sand it was
amazing I've seen the spider too and the
spider wasn't too happy about that oh my
it's amazing okay I'm not a fan of bugs
but this has got to be the coolest bug
oh well like 212 degrees coming out so
oh yeah that stuff will burn you yeah
it's an amazing shot so you know what if
the Lord could do this with a bug could
he do something like this with a
leviathan or somebody fire surface of
course he could this is not a problem
from a Biblical view we also see in
God's word like you were saying Isaiah
chapter 30 verse 6 says this the burden
against the beasts of the South through
a land of trouble and anguish from which
came the Lioness and lion the Viper and
the fiery flying serpent so you see
along with all those other real animals
it says they will carry their riches on
the backs of young donkeys and their
Treasures of the humps of camel to a
people who shall not profit so you see
over and over again it talks about these
flying fiery serpents now a lot of the
times you read the footnotes they'll say
well maybe it was a flying snake or a
flying Viper but obviously that doesn't
make sense right just mentioned the
Viper right before that right so
obviously that's that's not one of them
right but again I mean is it really that
far-fetched to think of a fire breathing
Dragon no it's really not it actually
makes sense this isn't a problem now
what can we actually name which specific
dinosaur or which type of creature it
was not exactly I mean like I said we
dig up bones and sometimes they're
partials and you know we build these
skeletons
um but you know some of these other
features some of the fleshly features is
tough to actually determine so not every
Dragon likely breathe fire but maybe
some of them did so that's that's what
we could say there let's go back to the
Bible though real quick here let's do it
there really is a dragon still roaming
today the deadly Dragon which is our
enemy right we're talking about Satan
here Satan is equated with a great
dragon in the Book of Revelation I think
it's a good reason for it because you
know a lot of these old ancient dragon
accounts you know these dragons were
pretty vicious so Satan's pretty vicious
he is out there now I've had people say
oh well we don't want to talk about
dragons because boy that's associated
with Satan but at the same time he also
prowls around like a roaring lion you
know he's been compared to other other
things as well to be very careful of
that we're talking about the dragon like
animal creatures and yes Satan is
compared to being a a dragon in that
spiritual sense and I think there's a
good reason for that yeah II Corinthians
11 3 the Apostle Paul says but I am
afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve
by his cunning your thoughts will be led
astray from a sincere and pure devotion
to Christ so you see back to the back to
the beginning Genesis chapter 3 Satan
deceived Eve in the garden which led to
Adam's Disobedience crystals brought
death and sin into the world and Satan
is using the same tactic today trying to
get people to doubt the authority of
God's word he's using that same tactic
over and over and over again did God
actually say and that is the serpent
that we have to deal with today that is
the real dragon the Real Enemy Satan
wants people to believe that Dragons
Were a myth that were just poetry that
were just fables and really what it is
it's an attack on biblical Authority and
that's why we're so passionate about it
that's right we want to get people back
to the Bible I mean here's Satan Satan
has been using the same method just gets
you to deceive and uh you know he used a
surprise you know I've had people say
well was that a dragon was that a
dinosaur we really don't know we know
that that particular serpent was cursed
or crawling its belly and eat dust a lot
of people think oh well maybe it was a
snake well we don't know that it was a
snake you know it you know a lot of
reptiles crawl on their belly and they
still have legs and so forth so we just
don't know that the answer to that but
the the key is Satan is a master to get
you to doubt if he can get you to doubt
one part of the Bible guess what that's
going to open a door to get you to doubt
other parts of the body that's right and
I want people to understand from the
first verse of the Bible to the last
verse of the Bible it is trustworthy now
I've had people say oh well do you have
to take every single thing in the Bible
literally no it's not written that way
you take it the way it is written if it
is written as a literal history you take
it as literal history if it's written as
poetry taking his poetry it's written as
a song take it as a song Take the
metaphors as metaphors and so forth take
it plainly take it away yeah exactly
because the thing is if we can't trust
Genesis 1 1 to be true why trust John 3
16 why trust any of the Bible to be true
and so really it goes back to the Bible
goes back to God's infallible word and
that's why as Christians we got to go
back to trusting God's infallible word
over man's fallible opinions man's ideas
out there and when we start with the
Bible we know that we cannot defeat this
dragon on our own no but this is where
we can rest assured Christ Christ has
saved us from that Dragon here when
Christ died on the cross the infinite
Son of God took the infinite punishment
from the infinite father and that was
enough to satisfy God's wrath upon sin
when we received Jesus Christ as Lord
and Savior his Perfection his
righteousness is transferred to us
that's called imputation it's imputed to
us so that we're seen as spotless on
Judgment day going back to Matthew 12 29
here really we needed Jesus the stronger
man to conquer Satan for those in Christ
one can have victory over the Great
Dragon First Corinthians 15 57 says this
but thanks be the God who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
and going back to Genesis 3 15 we needed
Jesus to crush the head of the serpent
and that's exactly what he did on the
cross he he did that he defeated he
destroyed the works of the devil is what
it says we can rest assured in that yeah
so I want to encourage each one of you
always be prepared to give an answer
that's first Peter 3 15. it doesn't say
always go give that answer there's a
time to to not cast Pearls Before Swine
but do it with gentleness do it with
respect second Corinthians 10 4 and 5
says we demolish arguments in every
pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God we take captive
every thought and make it obedient to
Christ and that's what we need to do we
need to be careful what the world is
saying always test it and compare it to
the word of God because God is the one
who's always right