His majesty the low-life worm

“When Paul tells us ‘the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain,’ we call that old age. It’s the line from the song ‘Abide with me’: ‘Change and decay in all around I see.’ That same kind of degeneration of sin has taken place in Satan.

“If you go back and refresh your memory on what the ‘second death’ entails, there’s the degeneration literally of the souls of men back to a form of what the Bible calls a ‘worm,’ where you degenerate right back into that terrible low-life form. Satan is doing that and currently he’s described as a ‘great red dragon.’

“Now, there’s all kind of stuff out there about mythological fire-breathing dragons and it comes from the remnants of truth in history that are fantasized by people who didn’t believe the Bible or history when it confirmed the Bible’s accuracy.

“If you are familiar with a little insect about the size of my thumb called the ‘Bombardier beetle,’ this is not an extinct creature from the past. A Bombardier beetle squirts ‘fire’ that is about 250 degrees hot when it comes out his little ejection tubes.

“He mixes some chemicals together and has an intricate combustion chamber. If you took these chemicals and squirted them onto your hand, it would burn the hide off you. If something like that hit you, you’d say, ‘He’s breathing fire!’ You might not see the flame but, buddy, you’d see the smoke! You’d see the scab it would raise up on you.

“I’m guessing that was going on with some of these pre-Flood creatures on the earth, like dragons—I think the dinosaurs probably could do that same kind of thing.

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“In Job 41 you have a description of the Adversary the devil, and the creatures talked about are not prehistoric creatures; they are pre-Flood creatures. Dinosaurs and all those big animals like that you could see live on the earth between the time of Adam and the time of Noah, and then they were on Ark with Noah in baby form.

“You understand you would take a little elephant, not a big one. A little whale, a little giraffe. Anybody with any sense who knows they’re going to be on that boat for awhile, they’d take the little guys who could then get out on the other side and go out and reproduce.

“When they got out on the other side of the Flood, the topography and the climate of the earth was so changed because the earth began to tip on its axis and the polar caps developed.

"The climactic conditions changed so much that the ability of the earth to sustain these creatures decreased until the large ones became extinct and now we claim not to have any of them around anymore.

“By the way, don’t worry about all the so-called dating systems that put them millions and billions of years ago. If you hear somebody try to argue that, just go ‘Ho-hum, anybody got something besides a cartoon to watch?’

“The basic postulate behind all that dating system is that everything has always been the same as it is right now and anybody who rejects catastrophic geology as the method of studying history and geology hasn’t got enough ability to analyze and interpret things for you.

“Uniformitarianism just won’t work. You can’t study the crust of the earth and be an uniformitarian. The Flood in Noah’s day wiped the whole planet out. Things like the Grand Canyon took place from all that water going around the earth and coming back and hitting the earth, drastically changing the typography of the earth.

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“Job is a book that describes Satan. Job 41 gives you a picture of Satan in his fallen state and the whole chapter is about him. The chapter starts out, [1] Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
[2] Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
[3] Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

“Now all these new bibles say that ought to be a ‘whale’ or a ‘hippo,’ or that kind of stuff. That’s because they don’t understand what it is. It’s a sea monster called a ‘leviathan’ in your Bible.

“Notice (the devil) will make a covenant with Israel in the tribulation and he’ll ‘speak soft words.’ Psalm 55 says his ‘words are smoother than butter.’ ‘Speak soft things to me,’ Isaiah 30 says Israel wants them to do.

“Job 41 goes on to describe who he is and the power and greatness of him. Verse 9 says, [9] Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
[10] None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

“What God is saying to Job is, ‘Have you ever tried to go tackle the devil? You ever tried to put a hook in his mouth and lead him around?'

“Listen to me, if you ever saw the devil in his real appearance and he stood before you and appeared to you as he really is, you’d fall down on the floor and beg God to kill you to get you out of his presence, it would scare you so bad.

“God says in verse 10, ‘None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?’ He’s saying, ‘If there’s not anybody on the planet able to stand against the devil, who then is able to stand before me?’

“I mean, if you can’t face the devil and get by, how in the world are you going to face God Almighty?! I mean, the devil’s just a third-rate power next to God. If he’s enough to blow you out of the water, what are you going to do when you face God? That’s the question.”