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.
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Biblical dragons are
perhaps the fiercest of all dragons. These are not village destroyers, they are
civilization destroyers! However, there are many possibilities about what exactly
biblical dragons are. They could be evil human leaders, warmongering countries led
by a devious cult of personalities, or they could even be comets, nuclear bombs
or aliens. One thing is for sure, they are often not scales, blood and bone
flying reptiles.
Before we go any further,
let me add that I am not a biblical scholar or expert by any stretch. I have,
though, personally read the Bible, as I have many ancient holy books from many
different religions. That said, my views on dragons in the biblical sense are
not to be construed in any way that I am challenging anyone else religious
views. My opinion: believe in whatever you choose and have fun with it.
Revelation
20:1-15
Then
I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the
bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient
serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and
threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might
not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After
that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on
them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the
souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the
word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not
received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to
life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection...
If I’m reading this
correctly, the prophet is saying that Satan is to be thrown into a bottomless
pit (wormhole?) for one thousand years. The souls of martyrs and those that
didn’t take the number of the beast resurrected into heaven. The souls of the
dead that followed Satan and the Antichrist are not resurrected and judged for
1000 years. After that Satan is freed. It doesn’t say what happens after that.
This is not the way most people talk about the end-times! For my fictional take
on it check out my apocalyptic horror novel series The Devil’s Prophet @ http://thedevilsprophet.com
Ezekiel
29:3
Speak,
and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king
of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says,
‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.
This passage seems to
define the dragon as the Pharaoh of Egypt. Their dynasties lasted for thousands
of years until they were taken down by first the Jewish God and then by my
personal favorite conqueror, Alexander the Great. That dragon was slain!
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.
What kind of dragon could be in the sea? Was this
prophet perhaps divining something that was too technologically advanced from
him to accurately describe? Perhaps it could be a nuclear powered submarine
firing nuclear weapons during World War Last. Another explanation could be
invading aliens, who are known to make their bases in the sea.
Jeremiah
51:37
And
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and
an hissing, without an inhabitant.
I cannot possibly say
about this prophet’s use of the term dragon. He does accurately predict the
fall of Babylon, which happened twice, once in early biblical times by the Medes
and the Assyrians (Persians) and the other, just recently, by a war the United
States started. The actual ancient city-state of Babylon does in fact lie in
ruins in the badlands of Iraq, just as the prophet predicted. A ghost town,
which for a brief time, was the greatest and most beautiful city in the world,
may in fact be housing some type of terrible spiritual dragons ready to awaken and
take thousands of simmering years’ worth of vengeance out on humanity.
23There
was a great dragon* which the
Babylonians revered.24The king said to Daniel, “You cannot
deny that this is a living god, so worship it.”25But
Daniel answered, “I worship the Lord, my God, for he is the living God.26Give me permission, O king, and I will kill this dragon without
sword or club.” “I give you permission,” the king said.27Then Daniel took
some pitch, fat, and hair; these he boiled together and made into cakes. He put
them into the mouth of the dragon, and when the dragon ate them, he burst.
“This,” he said, “is what you revered.”
This makes the apocalyptic prophet Daniel a world-class
dragon slayer. There is not one clue in this text to point at a misconstrued
technological device. It simply describes a biological beast that was obviously
quite fearsome. How it came to be captured or what type of beast it really was
is anyone’s guess. For slaying this beast, King Nebuchadnezzar listened to the pleas
of the high priests of the dragon religion and sentenced Daniel to be thrown
into a den of hungry lions. After several days, the King had his men open the
den and Daniel walked out unharmed. Nebuchadnezzar promptly threw the wizards
that worshipped the dragon into the pit and they were immediately eaten. Real
or imagined, this is a great, great story.
Speaking of great stories, please give my own dragon
story, Rise of the Raven Knights a read. It is a fantastic dark fiction tale,
about dragons, owls, ravens, knights, ghosts and gargoyles that battle evil
witches who plan to control demons and take over the world. http://sufferthewitch.com
Be sure to check back into DeThroe’s Blog in two
weeks as I explore in depth, the possibility that the ancients mistook comets
and UFO’s as dragons!
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