Exodus 20:11
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

This scripture verifies that all that the Lord made, the heavens, the Earth, the sea and all things that were within the heavens, the Earth, and the sea were made in six literal days and the Lord rested on the seventh day! This would include dinosaurs! Everything was created in six literal days. Not periods of time. The gap theory is a lie as is any teaching that speaks of the six day creation of God as periods of time. The phrase “and all that in them is” is an all inclusive statement taking in everything that was created!! There is no way around this!! But there remains the scoffers, the ever learning and never able to come to the acknowledging of the truth, and those that are just full of rebellion against God, and sadly enough some good preachers and teachers of God who have some how lost sight and their faith have become entangled in sciences falsely so called and have tried to find a way to teach both the truth of God’s Word while also trying to manipulate God’s Word to fit their new found knowledge of how this world can exceed 6,000 years of which directly contradicts the teaching of God’s Word.

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The So Called: Pre-Adamic world, The Luciferian Flood, and the Gap theory

The gap theory postulates that an indefinite span of time exists between Genesis 1:1 which reads, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” and Genesis 1:2 which reads, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

This time span is usually considered to be quite large (millions of years) and is also regarded to encompass the so-called “geologic ages.” Many proponents of the gap theory also postulate that a cataclysmic judgment was pronounced upon the Earth during this period as the result of the fall of lucifer (satan) and that the ensuing verses of Genesis chapter 1 describe a re-creation or reforming of the Earth from a chaotic state and not an initial creative effort on the part of God.

The reason for such an invention as this is to try to account for what man can not understand. Thus man in his own wisdom tries to give an account of what he can not accept by faith. That being that “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day”. This being literally 24 hour days.

To believe that God created everything in six literal days is to accept that man and dinosaur walked the Earth together at the same time, that the geologic column is a false teaching, as well as the teaching of evolution.

The geological column is the theoretical classification system for the layers of rocks and fossils that make up the Earth’s crust such as the Mesozoic era. The geological age being within the geological era of time such as the Jurassic age.

The notion that the earth’s crust has on “onion skin” structure with successive layers containing all strata systems distributed on a global scale is not according to the facts. Data from continents and ocean basins show that the ten systems are poorly represented on a global scale: approximately 77% of the earth’s surface area on land and under the sea has seven or more (70% or more) of the strata systems missing beneath; 94% of the earth’s surface has three or more systems missing beneath; and an estimated 99.6% has at least one missing system.2 Only a few locations on earth (about 0.4% of its area) have been described with the succession of the ten systems beneath (west Nepal, west Bolivia, and central Poland). Even where the ten systems may be present, geologists recognize individual systems to be incomplete. The entire geologic column, composed of complete strata systems, exists only in the diagrams drawn by geologists! Source: http://www.icr.org/article/ten-misconceptions-about-geologic-column/

The teaching of evolution and the teaching of the geological column and the geological ages are science falsely so called. Those who have erred concerning the faith to follow after these false teachings of science have compromised the truth of the Word of God by trying to insert an indefinite period of time between Genesis verse 1 and verse 2 as well as proclaiming that Genesis chapter 1 is actually describing a re-creation or reforming of the Earth from a chaotic state.

1 Corinthians 3:19-20
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

1 Timothy 6:20-21
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

2 Peter 3:5-7
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

This very passage of scripture from 2 Peter chapter 3 that states that these people are willingly ignorant of the flood of Noah’s time is actually used to support the teaching of the gap theory. However, they claim this flood is not referring to the flood of Noah, but rather to the luciferian flood. Even though scripture clearly states it was the flood of Noah’s time in the previous chapter. “And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;” (2 Peter 2:5) So let me quickly make clear that there is no such thing as a luciferian flood. This is part of the gap theory teaching because they can not accept the clear teaching of scripture that “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day”.

Let’s take a closer look at:

Genesis 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

These two verses of scripture give us a general introduction of the creation of the heaven and the Earth. We then read the account of what took place on each of the six days of creation from Genesis 1:3 – Genesis 2:3.

The idea of a pre-Adamic race is a false teaching that supposes that God created a race of humans who lived before God created Adam and Eve. There are several variations of this teaching but the reason for this teaching is the same as the reasons for the gap theory and that of the luciferian flood. That is they have chosen to doubt God’s Word and to look at our Earth and that of science to find that this Earth must be more than 6,000 years old. It is a love of worldly knowledge and worldly sciences falsely so called, who are continuously changing what they consider the facts to be to try to find a way to fit this so called scientific information into the Word of God.

There are several variations of the pre-Adamic world that exist. We will look at two. There are those that believe that God created people in Genesis chapter 1 and then Adam and Eve in Genesis chapter 2. This theory is trying to do away with the account of how the world’s population came from only one man and one woman, while also trying to do away with the fact that there were close family marriage relationships between brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, cousins, and such that had taken place.

So this form of a pre-Adamic world places an entire human race outside of the Garden of Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve. The biblical claim for this doctrine is to separate the creating of mankind in Genesis chapter 1 with the creation of Adam and Eve in chapter 2. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:26-31) “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:1-3) “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:7-8 )

This is a failure to understand that Genesis chapter 1 is the explaining of the entire creation account of the heavens, the Earth, the sea; and all that in them is. This including the creation of man and woman on the sixth day. Genesis Chapter 2 takes a closer look at the creation of the man and the woman that took place on the sixth day of creation.

The word replenish also becomes a snare to many people because they immediately believe that it means to fill again.

The Hebrew word in use for replenish:

or mala’, maw-law’; (Esth. 7:5), a primitive root, to fill or (intransitive) be full of, in a wide application (literal and figurative) :- accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × draw, give in, go) full (-ly, -ly set, tale), [over-] flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a [hand-] full, + have wholly.—Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

The Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words also agrees.

To Fill
A. Verb
male (4390) “to fill, fulfill, overflow, ordain, endow.” This verb occurs in all Semitic languages (including biblical Aramaic) and in all periods. Biblical Hebrew attests it about 250 times.
Basically, male means “to be full” in the sense of having something done to one. In 2 Kings 4:6, the word implies “to fill up”: “And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said….” The verb is sometimes used figuratively as in Gen. 6:13, when God noted that “the earth is filled with violence.” – The Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words

The first appearance of this word is found in the same chapter of Genesis just six verses prior.

With Strong’s Concordance reference numbers inserted:

Genesis 1:22
22 And God blessed them, saying , Be fruitful , and multiply , and fill the waters in the seas , and let fowl multiply in the earth .

Genesis 1:28
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful , and multiply , and replenish the earth , and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth .

Notice that the same Hebrew words are used in both verses in the same order!

“the earth was without form, and void” (Genesis 1:2) and needed to be filled! Filled, not refilled from a chaotic state, but filled with the six day creation of God!

This particular teaching of a pre-Adamic world uses the separation of the creating of mankind in Genesis chapter 1 with the creation of Adam and Eve in chapter 2 as an explanation of how the earth was populated and how it was that Cain could have knew his wife at Nod. However, this also goes against the scriptures. “And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.” (Genesis 4:16-17)

There are several points of consideration here. Such as how long was Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? Genesis 5:5 tells us, “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.” We also know that God began keeping track of time in the creation account when he used the phrase “And the evening and the morning were the first day” etc. We were also told that Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born. “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:” (Genesis 5:3) This lets us know without any uncertainty that Adam and Eve could not have been in the Garden of Eden for any longer than 130 years. Since Adam was 130 years old when he had Seth, and Cain and Able were born before this time, it only stands to reason that Adam and Eve must also have had daughters. We are not given the ages of Cain and Able but only told “Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground”, (Genesis 4:2) that both had enough understanding to make “an offering unto the LORD”, (Genesis 4:3) and that Cain was old enough to murder his brother with malice. (Genesis 4:6-10)

So when we read “And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. (Genesis 4:16-17) We must first take notice that it only says here that Cain went to the land of Nod and knew his wife. It doesn’t say that Cain found his wife there, just that he knew her there. So there is no evidence that Cain found this woman in Nod but rather most likely took her with him to the land of Nod. Who was this woman he took to the land of Nod? One of his sisters, aunts, niece, or cousin.

Since we know that Adam was 130 years old when he had Seth, and Cain and Able were born prior to this, I believe this is the only Biblical conclusion we can draw, because any other conclusion gets into people who God also would have created that were not of Eve of which was the mother of all living. “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” (Genesis 3:20) Since Eve is the mother of all living then to say there were other people created not of Adam and Eve would not only break scripture but would get into believing that there were other people that didn’t have a soul that the offspring of Adam and Eve mated with and this clearly breaks the scriptures. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)

Another teaching of the pre-Adamic people are those that are found within the Gap theory and this generally takes into account the luciferian flood that destroyed this world via the judgment of God, of which God then recreates the world starting at Genesis 1:3. In this pre-Adamic world is where the dinosaurs would fit in and the result of the luciferien flood would give an account of the geologic column. Gap theorists place a gap of an unspecified time in between Genesis verse 1 and verse 2. “ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2)

Remember, the gap theory teaches that we have an old earth that is possibly millions of millions of years old. One of the major reasons they believe this teaching is because of the so called geologic column, of which they claim is a direct result of the so called luciferian flood that left the world without form and void. Even though they teach from Genesis 1:2 that the Earth was without form and void this doesn’t stop them from keeping the geologic column which houses the fossil records intact. Hmm. Without form and void… yet with the fossil record intact.

This despite believing that God is re-creating everything! This despite the flood of Noah’s day! “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Genesis 7:11-12) “And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.” (Genesis 8:1-3) This despite approximately 77% of the earth’s surface area on land and under the sea has seven or more (70% or more) of the strata systems missing beneath; 94% of the earth’s surface has three or more systems missing beneath; and an estimated 99.6% has at least one missing system!

During this process of the flood of Noah’s time the Earth would have underwent intense changes from the fountains of the deep being opened, the storm that took place, and the continual abating of the waters off of the face of the Earth.

These people are lovers of false sciences and that of man’s wisdom!!!
These sciences falsely so called are a way for mankind in their folly to try to account for the things that they can not accept by faith of God’s word. They are willingly ignorant of Noah’s flood because it contradicts what they already believe to be true, which is the teaching of evolution and in some cases the gap theory. Therefore those who still hold to the Bible, yet believing the false science of evolution, try to find a way to include an indefinite period of time so that they can account for the amount of time needed for the teaching of evolution to take place. So they have created the gap theory as a means to try to account for this indefinite period of time as well as using this indefinite period of time to account for another false science known as the geologic column which contains the fossil records. Many proponents of the gap theory pose that this geologic column was produced by the luciferian flood that destroyed the Earth leaving it without form and void.

To try to blend these false sciences with scripture, they speak of a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. They claim that verse two of Genesis chapter 1 is the destruction of the original creation that God created perfectly and that it was destroyed by water. The reason they have chosen water as the means for this destruction of what they claim to be the original creation is because they must give an account of “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” and this they do by claiming that Noah’s flood did not destroy the world that then was because Noah and his family lived. So they have created another false teaching of claiming that when lucifer fell God destroyed that world with a flood and this calamity is responsible for the geologic column and the fossil record.

Again, they are willingly ignorant that the flood of Noah’s day is responsible for the fossil record that we have today. But to believe this is to believe that dinosaurs walked the Earth together with mankind and that is to deny the teaching of evolution and the so-called geologic column. By removing the false teaching of evolution one is left with only the Biblical account of creation. For those that hate and deny God this is not an option. And for those who claim to believe the teaching of evolution as well as the Bible deny the teaching of the Bible to keep their belief in the teaching of evolution.

What the Bible teaches versus what evolution teaches.

Everything multiplies after its own kind!

1 Corinthians 15:38-40
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

Genesis 1:11-12
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21, 24-25
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Light was created before the sun!

Genesis 1:3-5
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:14-18
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Oceans were created before land!

Genesis 1:2
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:9-10
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Fruit trees were created before fish!

Genesis 1:11-12
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good

Genesis1:20-21
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Plant life was created before the sun!

Genesis 1:11-13
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:14-19
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The sun & stars were created after the earth!

Genesis 1:14-15
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Birds & fish were created on the same day!

Genesis 1:20-21
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Birds were created before reptiles!

Genesis 1:20-23
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Genesis 1:24-25, 31
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Man was made from the dust of the earth!

Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Death was the result of man’s sin!

Romans 5:12
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

According to the Word of God, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” (Psalms 14:1) The reason for their folly? “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” (Romans 1:18-23)

So then, what took place between Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 2? Genesis chapter 1 verses 1 and 2 just describes to us the first part of the creation process that was not finished yet. The rest of the chapter tells us how God filled the Earth with life and that which was needful to sustain life.

What about dinosaurs in the Bible? If we believe in a literal six day creation then mankind and dinosaur walked the Earth together. So if man and dinosaur walked the Earth together does the Bible speak of dinosaurs?

Exodus 20:11
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Genesis 1:21 (KJV)
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 (NKJV)
21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Hebrew word in use:

Tanniyn – intensive from the same as (tan); a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal :- dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.—Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

Smith’s Bible Dictionary:

Whale – As to the signification of the Hebrew terms tan and tannin, variously rendered in the Authorized Version by “dragon,” “whale,” “serpent,” “sea-monster” see DRAGON.—Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Dragon – The translators of the Authorized Version, apparently following the Vulgate, have rendered by the same word “dragon” the two Hebrew words tan and tannin, which appear to be quite distinct in meaning.

1. The former is used, always in the plural, in Job 30:29; Psal 44:19; Isai 34:13; 43:20; Jere 9:11 It is always applied to some creatures inhabiting the desert, and we should conclude from this that it refers rather to some wild beast than to a serpent. The syriac renders it by a word which, according to Pococke, means a “jackal.”
2. The word tannin seems to refer to any great monster, whether of the land or the sea, being indeed more usually applied to some kind of serpent or reptile, but not exclusively restricted to that sense. Exod 7:9, 10, 12; Deut 32:33; Psal 91:13 In the New Testament it is found only in the Apocalypse, Reve 12:3, 4, 7, 9, 16, 17 etc., as applied metaphorically to “the old serpent, called the devil, and Satan.” —Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Our focus is on the word tannin but I have included both definitions so that you will understand why the strong’s concordance above read: i.e. sea-serpent or jackal. So I am not saying that every time you see the word dragon that it could be referring to a dinosaur, but I am saying that in some of those cases it might be.

At the time of the translating of the KJV Bible the English word dinosaur had not yet been coined.
Word Origin & History according to dictionary.com:

1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek deinos “terrible” (see dire) + sauros “lizard” (see -saurus). Figurative sense of “person or institution not adapting to change” is from 1952.

As you can see from the word origin of dinosaur it meant terrible lizard. As you know lizards are reptiles and the word dinosaur literally meant fearful lizard.

Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary
Dinosaur – One of a group of extinct reptiles, widely distributed during the Mesozoic period and including the largest known land animals.

There is two things of importance that I would like to draw your attention to here. First that in the very definition of the word dinosaur they include the Mesozoic period. Remember the Mesozoic period is referring to the geologic column of time of which is completely unbiblical.

World English Dictionary
Mesozoic
— adj 1. of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 250 000 000 years ago with the Triassic period and lasted about 185 000 000 years until the end of the Cretaceous period

The second thing of importance in the definition of the word dinosaur is that it included the largest known land animals, and as we learned from Smith’s Bible dictionary the word tannin seems to refer to any great monster, whether of the land or the sea, being indeed more usually applied to some kind of serpent or reptile, but not exclusively restricted to that sense.

Isaiah 27:1-2 (KJV)
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.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

from (lavah); a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea-monster); figurative the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Babylon :- leviathan, mourning.—Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

Isaiah 27:1-2 (NKJV)
1 In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine!

Notice the connection here of Leviathan being a crooked serpent and dragon. Also take notice that the NKJV rendered the word for dragon as reptile.

This particular serpent or dragon in reference is actually referring to the end time world governmental system of power or the seven headed, ten horned beast of Revelation of which is a dragon. This is a lesson for another day but as you may realize this word leviathan and dragon here is not referring to a crocodile but rather to a sea monster of which the word tannin is being rendered in the KJV as dragon. Remember the word tannin refers to any great monster, whether of the land or the sea.

Chapter 27
Isa 27:1-13. CONTINUATION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH, TWENTY-FIFTH, AND TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTERS
At the time when Israel shall be delivered, and the ungodly nations punished, God shall punish also the great enemy of the Church. —Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Let us now focus our attention on the 41st book of Job, briefly using Adam Clarke’s Commentary.

Job 41:1-34
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

The Septuagint has, “Canst thou draw out the DRAGON?” The Syriac and Arabic have the same. A species of whale has been supposed to be the creature in question; but the description suits no animal but the crocodile or alligator; and it is not necessary to seek elsewhere—Adam Clarke’s Commentary

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?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
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?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Remember Adam Clarke’s commentary said, “the description suits no animal but the crocodile or alligator; and it is not necessary to seek elsewhere”—Adam Clarke’s Commentary

By his neesings a light doth shine—It is very likely that this may be taken literally. When he spurts up the water out of his nostrils, the drops form a sort of iris or rainbow. —Adam Clarke’s Commentary

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his mouth go burning lamps—Dr. Young, in his paraphrase, has a sensible note on this passage:—”This is nearer the truth than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile, according to naturalists, lying long under water, and being there forced to hold its breath, when it emerges, the breath long repressed is hot, and bursts out so violently, that it resembles fire and smoke. —Adam Clarke’s Commentary

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.

These two verses are skipped in Adam Clarke’s Commentary.

22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

In his neck remaineth strength—Literally, “strength has its dwelling in his neck.” The neck is the seat of strength of most animals; but the head and shoulders must be here meant, as the crocodile has no neck, being shaped nearly like a lizard. —Adam Clarke’s Commentary

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

This is certainly not a description of a crocodile or of a whale. This is describing what we would call a fire breathing dragon. To account this creature as the crocodile or whale is being willingly ignorant of not only what was spoken of concerning this creature but also that “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day”.

This creature was called a leviathan in verse 1 and as we read from the account of Isaiah 27 the leviathan was called a dragon and that particular leviathan was actually referring to the end time world governmental system of power or the seven headed, ten horned beast of Revelation of which is a dragon.

Let us now turn our attention to the Behemoth. The creature that you are about to hear described to you has been said to be, by many commentaries of scripture, either an elephant or a hippopotamus. However, if one were not willingly ignorant of the six day creation of God a Brachiosaurus would better fit the description of this creature.

Job 40:15-24
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.

The catholic encyclopedia states, “The cedar is described as a tree “of a high stature” (Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 2:13; 37:24; 2 Kings 19:23), whose “height was exalted above all the trees of the country”. “All this is verified in the cedar of Libanus, which is the stateliest and most majestic tree of Palestine. It often reaches a height of 100 feet and more”.

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.

The brachiosaurus was approximately 50 feet tall and weighed 120,000 pounds. Its length from head to tail was 100 feet. (This sounds more like the chief of the ways of God.)

20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

The mountains bring him forth food – It cannot therefore be the hippopotamus, as he is seldom found far from the rivers where he has his chief residence. —Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

And fens – “marsh, marshy places.” This passage proves that the elephant is not here referred to. He is never found in such places. —Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

The hippopotamus drinks up to 56 gallons of water every day and the elephant drinks up to 60 gallons of water every day. This creature trusts that he can draw up the Jordan river into his mouth.

24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

To believe that this creature could have been the brachiosaurus is to believe that man and dinosaur walked the Earth together. It is also to dismiss the so-called geologic column as well as the false teaching of evolution that does not agree with the Biblical account of creation. And for these reasons they are willingly ignorant of the Biblical account of creation as well as the flood of Noah that created the fossil record when “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Peter 3:6)

Genesis 7:17-24
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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