Dragon (i.e., Satan) in the details

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, you 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 take on things, says Richard Jordan.

Psalm 74: [12] For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

[13] Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

The dragon (singular) in the spirit world is Satan and then the dragons with an ‘s’ are his minions; the little devils, or demons.

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.

Isaiah 27: [1] In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

The dragon, leviathan and the serpent are all the same dude. You know who the dragon is Revelation 12?

[9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

You read down Job 41 and you see, "This is one weird-looking dude!" He’s so terrifying it 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?

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: [18] By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Now, "neesings" is a strange word you don’t see very often. It means "sneezing." The guy breathes real hard and there’s a glow.

You know how in the afternoon and evening you kind of get a little dullish, but in the morning you’re all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed? It says his eyes light up.

Next it says, [19] 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.

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?

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Numbers 23: [22] God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

[23] Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

"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] 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 they're what’s there. There are similar origins to all those people and they saw these things.

Psalm 22: [12] Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

[13] They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Notice Jesus said that 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 the 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.

[16] For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
[17] I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

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."

Psalm 22: [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] 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, looking into the future: [28] 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 what Jesus said in John 3:14? [14] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even 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.

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The parallels made in the Bible are innumerable and no human could ever unearth them all in all their intricacies, says Jordan.

In answer to questions about Revelation 12 and the wilderness survival of the "little flock" during the Tribulation, those believing Jews will know from their Old Testament exactly where to find the hidden manna God will make available to them for their sustenance in the mountains.

Jeremiah 50: [19] And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

Micah 7: [14] Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

[15] According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.”

Bashan is on the extreme northeast of Israel. Gilead is to the southwest. Carmel is on the northwest of Israel near the Mediterranean Sea.