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DRAGONS ARE THE MOST MENTIONED MYTHICAL ANIMAL IN THE BIBLE! THEY ARE FOUND 35 TIMES IN THE KING JAMES, WITH SECOND PLACE UNICORNS RECORDED ONLY 9 TIMES. CHARACTERISTICS ... THESE CREATURES CAN MAKE A MOURNFUL CRY LIKE WAILING. "THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED: I WILL MAKE A WAILING LIKE THE DRAGONS, AND MOURNING AS THE OWLS." (MICAH 1:8). THEY CAN SNUFF UP AIR, SWALLOW THEIR PREY WHOLE AND BE QUITE POISONOUS. "AND THE WILD ASSES DID STAND IN THE HIGH PLACES; THEY SNUFFED UP THE WIND LIKE DRAGONS . . ." (JEREMIAH 14:6). "NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HATH DEVOURED ME, HE HATH CRUSHED ME . . . HE HATH SWALLOWED ME UP LIKE A DRAGON . . ." (JEREMIAH 51:34). "THEIR WINE IS THE POISON OF DRAGONS, AND THE CRUEL VENOM OF ASPS." (DEUTERONOMY 32:33). DRAGONS ARE SAID TO POSSESS SOLITARY HABITS (JOB 30:29) AND CAN LIVE IN EITHER DESERTED CITIES, DRY PLACES, IN WATER, IN THE WILDERNESS, OR ANYWHERE THAT IS DESOLATE. SYMBOLISM ... THE MOST WELL-KNOWN SYMBOLISM OF DRAGONS IS OF EVIL IN GENERAL AND SATAN THE DEVIL IN PARTICULAR. "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 . . ." (REVELATION 12:9). |
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