Weird-looking dudes

Psalm 74:14 says, “Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.”

Jordan explains, “There are dragons and then there’s leviathan. We know leviathan is a sea monster from Job. The dragon is a big land animal. We have the word ‘dinosaur’ that we use to describe that. That word is an English term that didn’t come into existence until the 1800s. The root ‘dino’ means lizard. A dinosaur is a gigantic, monstrous lizard.

“What happens is, the creation science people and Christians trying to ‘help’ the Bible out, go through all these creatures back here and say, ‘Well, that’s a dinosaur.’ You don’t need to prove God’s word by trying to help Him out with some scientific theory about whether it’s true or not. God’s Word was true before anybody ever thought about it.

“If you only see the physical and you think that’s all there is, and you don’t understand there’s something behind all that, well, you can be a creationist because you can forget about the spirit part of it. If you’re an evolutionist, well, you don’t believe in the supernatural anyway; all you believe is what’s physical and that’s a nut job case anyway. That’s a loser.

“Dragons and leviathans are real creatures that the psalmists and the people writing are aware of because they can eat it—it’s a creature they can get in touch with. The leviathan is a sea monster.

“The dragon in the spirit world is Satan and then the dragons with an ‘s’ is his minions; the little devils, or demons. This dude is not simply a dinosaur. You learn something about how Satan and his cohorts function (their character, their characteristics, their methodology) by looking at these creatures, because what they demonstrate in the physical world is the reality that these creatures in the spirit world function with.

“In Job 41, he’s drawn out with a hook, he’s let down with a cord; he’s a sea creature. Isaiah 27 says he’s a piercing serpent. The dragon, leviathan and the serpent are all the same dude. He’s described as a serpent, a dragon, and a sea monster. You know who the dragon is Revelation 12? We know leviathan’s a sea monster in his identity, but when we think about whom he is in his person, he’s Satan.

“You read down Job 41 and you see, ‘This is one weird-looking dude!’ He’s so terrifying it says, ‘Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? None is so fierce that dare stir him up.’

“If he stood here this morning it’d scare you so bad you’d just pass out cold on the floor. I mean, he’s a frightening-looking guy! I love verse 18: ‘By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.’

“Now that’s a strange word you don’t see very often. It means ‘sneezing.’ The guy breathes real hard and there’s a glow. You know, in the afternoon and evening, you kind of get a little dull, but in the morning you’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed? His eyes light up.

“Next it says, ‘Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
[20] Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
[21] His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.’

“Years ago Down South people would say, ‘He’s smoking cigarette’ for the part about how ‘his breath kindleth coals.’ That’s not what that verse is about; that’s just a bunch of Pharisees telling you you can’t smoke a cigarette and serve God.

“This thing about fire-breathing . . . there are creatures today . . . you ever heard of the Bombardier beetle? It’s a beetle that has a combustion chamber in its tail-end and when it gets scared . . . you know how a skunk will spray you? Well, this beetle doesn’t spray you; he’s got two chemicals his body makes that when they’re separated they’re neutral, but when they’re put together they explode. It will put out a stream that will burn a blister onto you.

“First of all, you think about how that evolved. Every experiment that didn’t work . . . you know, now you’ve got three more million years to get back to that place by accident again.

“My point is, in nature right now, there are little bugs that do what this guy does in a big scale. So when you start saying, ‘That can’t be real,’ don’t be so ill-informed and myopic that you don’t know what’s going on in creation around you, okay?

“Numbers 23:22 says, ‘God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn.’ ‘Uni’ is one. ‘Corn’ has to do with a horn. It’s a creature with one horn. You’ve seen animals like the rhinoceros, but this is in reference to the spirit world. Horns in the Bible represent power.

“Deuteronomy 33:17 says, ‘His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.’

“Notice this dude is strong enough that he can move people around. Now, a unicorn is a real creature.

“By the way, one of the great things about folks who think all these things are dinosaurs, is they go back and find these pictures that come from one of two places. One, they’ve got bones they reconstruct and two, there are pictures in ancient literature; caves where old societies have drawn pictures —every culture on the face of the earth has pictures of these things in their history.

“Now, you and I don’t think about that because our culture only goes back about 300 years as Americans. But if you go back from whence we all came, back into history, you’ll find in history these things replete.

“How could people back then who didn’t have cell phones or telegrams come up with the same kind of pictures? Well, that’s because there what’s there. There are similar origins to all those people and they saw these things.

Psalm 22:12 says, ‘Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.’ Notice Jesus said around the cross there are bulls. He’s circled by them. You remember in Exodus 32, Moses goes up on the mountain to talk to God and what happened down in the valley? They built a golden calf. They took an ox and started worshipping that thing. Those bulls are associated with worship of the devil in the Bible.

“In Ezekiel you learn that the face of the cherubim is the face of an ox. An ox has got two horns. So all of a sudden you’re drawing lines between the dots.

“Verse 16 says, ‘For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.’ Then he’s got dogs around them. By the way, who was it around the Cross? A bunch of religious leaders, Pharisees, Sadducees, Roman soldiers, Gentiles. He’s saying, ‘These dudes sitting around me, trying to have me crucified, are bulls; they’re dogs.’

Verse 21, ‘Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.’ Who’s the lion? Satan is ‘the lion going about seeking whom he might devour.’ Christ is in hand-to-hand combat with the lion. ‘For thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.’ You see, these creatures exist in the spirit world.

“Now when He says, ‘Save me from the lion’s mouth,’ what does a lion want to do? You learn about some of the characteristics. Why does He have all these different descriptions? Well, a lion wants to devour, to tear, to consume, to destroy.

“Numbers 21:6 says, ‘And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.’ Those fiery serpents, Isaiah 14:28, looking into the future, says, ‘In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
[29] Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.’

“What is that?! You can make it all kind of things. They got pictures of dinosaurs with wings and all that stuff that go back thousands of years. But this is something bigger than that.

“You remember John 3:14 where Jesus said, ‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up’? You see, there’s a spiritual counterpart; there’s some of these creatures in the spirit world, and their desire--they’re ‘out of the serpent’s root.’ They’re a generation of Satan. That’s where they come from.

“ ‘And they should go forth as cockatrice.’ A cockatrice is a dude that bites you, and when he does, he stings; he injects poison into you.

“Isaiah 13:21 says, ‘But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.’ This is my favorite one of these guys. I’m just trying to build a list for you. There’s a whole bigger list.

“It says ‘their houses shall be full of doleful creatures.’ Does that sound like a happy thing? These guys are connected with sadness, drudgery and darkness.

“Where’s an owl live? he lives in the darkness. What does he eat? Dead things.

“Notice the next one: ‘And the satyrs shall dance there.’ Isaiah 34:11 says, ‘But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.’

All four of those are unclean creatures because they’re carnivores; they eat dead flesh. The passage goes on: ‘They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
[13] And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
[14] The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
[15] There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.’

“You ever heard a screech owl? That’s the scariest thing you ever want to come across. These guys are putting out some real frightening sounds. They’re going to scare the britches off you if they can. The reason is they want to get you away from them.

“A satyr is by definition a half-goat or horse and a half-man. The man’s heads sticking out of the goat. And you say, ‘Well, there’s no such creature as that.’ By the way, the word satyr is just the Hebrew word spelled out in English. Your translators didn’t translate it here; they just spelled it out. It’s translated in II Chronicles 11:15 by the term ‘devils’ because satyrs are a part of the satanic host.

“Now, let me show you where they come from. Revelation 9: And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
[2] And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

“You remember where that beast the Antichrist came from? He came out of this pit. Look at what’s in this pit: ‘And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.’ Verse 7 says, ‘And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.’

“You’ve got the body of a horse and the face of a man. How you going to do that? What does that sound like? That dude we read about called a satyr, right?!

“It gets better. The passage goes on, ‘And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
[10] And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.’

“This creature is a combination of a horse, a man, a woman, a lion and a scorpion. Now you draw that for yourself! Submit that to the movies and you might make some money! What a satyr is is what these creatures here are. They are part of the degenerated form of spirit creatures that are in the bottomless pit.

“Over time, sin degenerates everything it touches and it’s the same way in the spirit world. Those spirit creatures are degenerating too.

“These creatures that have all this terrible form, they’re beginning to suffer that degenerative process and what you’re seeing is, they’re held in the bottomless pit waiting to be cast into the lake of fire, and that degenerative process goes on.

“My point is the satyrs are not myth, and when they show up in Isaiah 13 and 34, there are two things to notice. These are two passages that describe places in the earth where there are shafts. or openings, or hallways that go down into hell. Hell has many compartments to it. It has the bottomless pit; it has the torment and so forth where once it had paradise in it.

“So there are different chambers there, but they’re on the earth in certain places; places where you can go . . . you see, when a lost man dies, he doesn’t just fall off--he’s got to go get checked in and pass through the gate. This stuff’s actual, folks! There are the gates of hell. Jesus Christ has the key to death and hell. Those things are real; they’re not just metaphorical.

“That’s why in those two passages from Isaiah you see the satyrs because the satyrs are in the bottomless pit. These passages, when they look toward the last days and the Second Coming, these dudes are going to be able to be visible and observed there because you’re going to have the ability to look down into those things.

“All of this gives us the ability to understand the nature, the realm of our spirit warfare. I’ll give you an illustration. In Deuteronomy 32, he talks about the poison of dragons and the poison of asps. One of the things they want to do to you, one of their tactics, is to poison you.

“Psalm 140 talks about ‘the poison of asps is under their lips.’ What would that tell you? There’s poison in their words. There’s poison that comes out of their mouth.

“So what happened in Genesis 3? Satan comes along and he speaks. He says, ‘Yea, hath God said?’ First thing he does is he attacks God’s Word and then you know what he did? He lied to Eve. He said, ‘You will not die.’ James 3 says their tongue’s full of venom. False doctrine, lies. There’s this spiritual venom that comes out. The dragon, folks, will poison you.

“Paul says in I Timothy 4:1, ‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.’

“What do you think those flying, fiery serpents want to do? They want to leave scar tissue on your soul so the Word of God doesn’t penetrate and get its job done. How they going to do it? They’re going to have the poison of the asp, or Satan.

“They want to live in darkness where there’s no knowledge of what God’s doing. The answer is turn on the light. And what’s the light? ‘You were children of the darkness but now you’re children of the day.’

“Your protection is in the light of God’s Word to you. Now, they’ll take God’s Word and use it too, and twist it and do what the fowl did—steal it away. But if you take God’s word rightly divided, then you get ‘the eyes of your understanding enlightened,’ and the light dispels the darkness.

“They live in dark holes and places of desolation. Houses full of doleful owls. Satyrs in desolate houses. Notice where they’re living is in the uninhabited, empty, dark, abandoned places.

“Isaiah 34:13 says, ‘And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.’

“When you abandon a place what happens to it? It gets overrun by the vegetation, the thorns, the bugs, the animals. So what happens? When Israel, who was the light of the Lord, left, what happened? It became the habitation of darkness.

“You see, when truth goes out, error comes in. When the light goes out, darkness comes in. When the people of Israel are taken out of this area, the satanic creatures come in.

“Jeremiah 9:11. Chapter 10:22. You see, they want to live where people aren’t. Now, you remember God told Noah that he was to scatter. And he was going to ‘put the fear of man in the beast of the field.’ So when man shows up, they leave. Noah was God’s man and they left. Here, God’s people are taken out and the (beastly creatures) come back in because that’s where they want to exist.

“Jeremiah 49:33 says, ‘And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.’

“If they get the son of the man out, then they can dwell there. The whole point here is when the son of man is gone, here come the dragons, the birds, the bats, the owls, the satyrs and all that stuff. You get rid of the Son of Man and you can have control.

“You remember in Romans 1, the conclusion Paul makes? He says, ‘And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.’

“They didn’t want to talk about God. They knew they couldn’t get rid of God so Satan just took God out of their thinking process. How often have we said that lately? They’ve done exactly that to our culture today.”