Hello again! We have been having
some awesome thunderstorms here lately. It is beautiful to watch and the rain
is very needed. If we had nocturnal eyes we would even be able to see the storm
clouds at night. And just as the bible said, many dragons/dinosaurs did have
eyes designed for night vision as we saw in the last blog. What else does the
bible say about these wonderful creatures that science has since discovered.
Let’s take a look…
Does scripture tell us of
different species of dragons/dinosaurs and their habitats? Yes, God has shown
us in his holy word that there is more than one dragon kind that dwell in
different places. Some dragons/dinos inhabited desolate places which could be
either barren and desert-like, or a place far out into the wilderness. Either would meet
the qualifications of the word desolate. Listen to Isaiah 34:13 “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.” Jeremiah 9:11
says “and I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons: and I will make
the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.” Jeremiah 10:22 and 49:33 says
“Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north
country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons,” and “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.” And then Jeremiah 51:37
says “And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.” Also Malachi 1:3 says
“And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the
dragons of the wilderness.” So it is logical that there was a species of
dinosaur/dragon that dwelled in wild /dry barren places, not inhabited by men. 
The bible also tells us in other
types of dragons/dinos that lived in much more pleasing places. For example,
Isaiah 13:22 says “And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces…” also Isaiah 35:7 says “And the
parched ground shall become a pool, and thirsty land springs of water: in the
habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.”
And of course in the book of Job there is a most wonderful description of the
behemoth which “eats grass like and ox” and disappears in the rushes of the
Jordan. Isaiah 13:22 and 35:7 could also be referring to the behemoth, but most
likely to other species of dragons since the behemoth did not inhabit
mountains. We know from stomach contents of fossilized dragons that some indeed
inhabited marshlands. For example a Baryonyx fossil has been discovered with
fish as the main part of the contents in its stomach.
The bible tells us that there are
species of marine/lake dragon/dinos/serpents in Ezekiel 32:2 and 29:3, “Son of
man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh King of Egypt, and say untio him, thou
art like a lion of the nations and art as a dragon in the sea; thou castedst out
thy rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and stampedst in their
rivers.” “Speak, and say, thus saith the Lord GOD; behold, I am against thee,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.” Psalm
74:13 says “Thou didst divide the sea by the strength; thubrakest the heads of
the dragons in the waters.” And also in Job is the account of leviathan, the
greatest of all marine dinosaurs. Again the fossil record holds many species of
these sea creatures encased in stone and time. 
Not only do we know that dragons
lived in desolate and well watered regions, we also know they inhabited areas
to the south of Israel as Isaiah 30:6a tells us “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 fiery flying serpent.” Dr. John Gill (1700’s)
wrote “Atlantic dragons are exceeding poisonous: and yet other writers besides
Pliny have asserted that they (dragons) are free from poison. It seems the
dragons of Greece are without, but not those of Africa and Arabia; and to these
Moses has respect, as being well known to him.” It is quite likely that during
both Pliny and Gill’s time dragons, though rare were still living. In this
written account not only does Dr. Gill confirm scripture that dragons live to
the south (of Israel) in Arabia and Africa, but that there are species that are
poisonous as well. And ammianus Marcellius, 4th a Century Roman
Historian, wrote in his book (Book XXII chapter 15 verse 26a) “These same birds
(the Ibis) meet winged armies of snakes which issue from the marches of Arabia,
producing deadly poisons, before they leave their own lands…” So Marcellius
addresses both dragons living in the south and winged dragons/dinosaurs, and
that those species are poisonous. He could only be writing about pterosaurs. And
most certainly there are many fossils of winged dinosaurs…dragons.
The bible is accurate even when
it comes to dinosaurs/dragons. We can put our full confidence in scripture no
matter how doubtful it may seem on the surface. Once we examine what the
scripture is saying it always will prove to be correct. Next time we will learn
some more interesting facts about dragons/dinosaurs and the bible.
Until then, may our Lord Jesus bless
you all!
Willow Dressel
References:
Hogue,
Bodie, Dragons, Legends and Lore of
Dinosaurs, 2011, Master Books, pp. 5, 14.
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