Look at the sea, so great, so wide! It teems with countless creatures, living beings, both large and small. The ships are there, sailing to and fro; Livyatan, which you formed to play there. Psalm 104:25-26
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For many generations, people have been fascinated with dinosaurs, dragons, sea creatures, and mysterious monsters. Over the centuries, questions have been asked, such as where did they come from? Did they evolve? Did they really live millions of years ago? Did Noah take dinosaurs, along with the other animals, aboard the ark before the ‘Great Flood’? Did dinosaurs and humans coincide together at one time? Did dragons really exist? What happened to dinosaurs and dragons? Are there any living today? Has any human being ever seen a live dinosaur? And so much more.
For ages, children and adults alike have been absolutely fascinated by these mysterious monsters. Countless books and movies have been produced to satisfy an insatiable hunger for information on these mysterious creatures. But in truth is that there are no real mysteries at all, once you have key information that is not generally known and is withheld from the public.
If we research the Bible very carefully, we can clearly see that no living creature matches the descriptions of behemoth and Leviathan.
Job 14:15-24, KJV:
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.
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.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
If we take a closer look, Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24
- It “eats grass like an ox.”
- It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
- Its “bones are like beams of bronze,His ribs like bars of iron.”
- “He is the first of the ways of God.”
- “He lies under the lotus trees,In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
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Unfortunately, some bibles and study materials translate the word behemoth as elephant or hippopotamus while others include a note at the bottom of the page, claiming that behemoth may have been an elephant or a hippopotamus. While an elephant and hippopotamus can both eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither creature has a “tail like a cedar” (i.e. a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). If you look through some of the photos of dinosaurs, you will however find many of them did indeed have tails like a cedar.
A behemoth is described as a great land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze. So we can safely conclude that a behemoth is an extraordinarily large creature. A key phrase from the Bible is “He is the first of the ways of God.” In the original Hebrew, this implies that behemoth was the largest animal created. While elephants and hippos are quite large, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, which is the largest (complete) dinosaur that has ever been discovered. A Brachiosaurus could then be described as “the first of the ways of God.”
Given all the information, we can safely conclude that “behemoth” is no ordinary animal; rather, it is a dinosaur—possibly the brachiosaurus.
Now let’s take a closer look at Leviathan. The Leviathan has the following characteristics according to Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—a summary—so that you can get a better idea.
- “No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
- “Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
- “His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.”
- “His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.”
- “Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.”
- “On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
- Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
- Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)[a] Note: The word translated “reptile” here is the Hebrew word tanniyn. This shows that “Leviathan” was also a “tanniyn” (dragon).
Different from the behemoth, who is incredibly enormous in size, Leviathan is ferocious and terrifying. Many references do refer to the sea, so Leviathan is more than likely a sea creature. Coincidentally, some biblical translations half hazardly refer to Leviathan as an alligator or crocodile, which are both fierce, yet neither of these is a sea creature. Though they do like water, they spend the majority of their time on land.
Furthermore, the question “Who can open the doors of his face. . . .” clearly would imply that no one is able to open Leviathan’s jaws. Even though an alligator’s jaws are near impossible to force open, a hard blow to their snout or a poke in eye can sometimes startle them enough to release their grip. This is a good description of an alligator characteristic, but it just does not fit perfectly with the description and characteristics of Leviathan, which in the context of the Bible was describing a near impossible event, and we are not finished.
The description of the scales is also fascinating. Quite a few verses in the Bible describe these great scales. In comparison to Leviathan’s armor, iron is like straw and arrows cannot make it flee. An arrow can severely damage a crocodile or an alligator. So this couldn’t possibly be a description of either one—or any living creature that we are aware of, as far as that goes.
The final important ingredient: fire. We can’t read Job 41:18-21 without seeing that the Bible is telling us Leviathan breathes fire. This fact in itself eliminates almost every living animal that exists. There is one animal in today’s world called a bombardier beetle. A native of Central America, this beetle houses a nozzle in its backside that acts like a miniature flame thrower. It sprays a high-temperature sream of gas (fueled by hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide with oxidative enzymes) in order to protect itself. It is noteworthy to add that if a beetle from Central America can spray fire, so can a Leviathan. Finally, Crocodiles and alligators are not able to breathe fire.
Almost every culture is filled with stories of fire-breathing dragons. Wouldn’t someone have made up a story of another fire-breathing beast or something along those lines? The fact is, no one ever did because dragon stories are based on truth, and only the dragons were able to breathe fire. More than likely, Leviathan would have been a member of the dragon (tanniyn) family. (Isaiah 27:1 also strongly implies this connection.)
It is also worth mentioning that many dinosaur skull fossils have unexplained, passages that are empty. Scientists have never been able to guess the reason or fully explain these passages. It seems to make sense that some dinosaurs used these passages as gas tanks for the explosive mixture used to exhale fire.
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Useful Links: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-and-the-bible/
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job+40%3A15-24&version=KJV
https://archive.org/details/TheDinosaurAndTheMissingLinkAPrehistoricTragedyPartTwo1917
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