Here are two outstanding Old Testament examples of the noun “dragon” …
Psalm 91:13 … Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
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.
These are both symbols, types, of the Devil!
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The noun “serpent” (in Greek “ophis”) is found 14 times in the New Testament. Revelation has 5 of those occurrences. (More than any other Book!) Here are some of those mentionings …
1st use … Matthew 7:10 … Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 10:16 … Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise (phron’imos = wise 14x only //) as serpents, and harmless (not mixed) as doves.
Matthew 23:33 … Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
1 Corinthians 10:9 … Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
John 3:14 … And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
2 Corinthians 11:3 … But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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Class … I am, this time through Revelation, more amazed than ever at the number of souls saved, despite their circumstances!
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands …
Revelation 7:13-14 … And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Amen!
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— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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