Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible!
| Remember that all reptiles never stop growing? That’s right; they grow every day of their life no matter how long they live. We grow to a certain age and stop. Dogs and cats, fish, birds, bears, etc. all stop growing at a certain age, but reptiles never do. Back before the flood, when things lived for hundreds of years, the reptiles were growing every day of their life. Remember the Iguanodon I mentioned earlier? It’s just a big, huge Iguana! Nothing exotic, I know, but that’s the truth of the matter. The fossilized eggs of dinosaurs are not very big. Most of them are pretty small, actually. Just as the bible tells us about the human giants, in Job 40, God talks to Job about the Behemoth and the Leviathan. Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. 20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. Notice that the behemoth has strength and force in its “body”? He moves his tail like a cedar. It’s a big tail, not a scrawny tail, but like a tree! It is very strong. It is the chief of the ways of God! It’s God’s pride! Notice that He says, “Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee!” He’s telling Job to look upon something that was within eyesight! He says that He made it with Job, or He made it when He made men. It was part of creation, not a thing that died millions of years ago. The behemoth was the largest of the dinosaurs and had a huge tail. The longneck dinosaur was the biggest, had a strong body and a big strong tail like a tree. It says that he lies down in the “fens”. The word fen means swamp. Remember the Mokele-mbembe in the swamp in Africa? They still live, they are just not as big as they were pre-flood. Job 41:1 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? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? … 15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. … 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. |
