Dragon

The dragon in the Bible is said to be a metaphor for Satan and the forces of evil, representing chaos instead of order, rebellion instead of obedience, and the ultimate enemy of God and in opposition to the "Will of God".

This symbolism may extend to represent other legal entities and institutions that are in opposition to, obstuction of, interfere with, or decieve people about the Will of God.

This could include their wicked rulers, corrupt magistrates, and or the vast buraucracy of their priesthood or We the People.

If "We the People" really want no kings , “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective of what party is in power.” Justice William O. Douglas, in his book Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54). It is that "vast bureaucracy" that is draining the economy and life from society and until that "vast bureaucracy" is sufficiently reduced the "Dragon lives". Until then the economy and society is going to collapse and die.

The hidden dragon

The dragon is consistently portrayed as the adversary which is the meaning of the word Satan who seeks to deceive, oppress, and destroy.

Modern Christian teachings sometimes use the chameleon to describe the negative spiritual trait of hypocrisy. The dragon of the Bible depends on hypocracy for its deception and is often associated with the stealth of a serpent as a symbol of evil.

Like mystery Babylon it will pretend to be the bride of Christ, the Church, while playing the Harlot and riding the back of a beast that devours the people.

The dragon will fill "his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out."

In Revelation 13:4 we are told, "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"

Who can drain the swamp without drying up the mire?

Who speaks like a dragon today that can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of man?

Dragon in the First

Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales <08577>, 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.

Exodus 7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent <08577>.

Exodus 7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent <08577>.

Exodus 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents <08577>: but Aaron s rod swallowed up their rods.

Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons <08577>, and the cruel venom of asps.

Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon <08577> well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

Job 7:12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale <08577>, that thou settest a watch over me?

Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons <08577> in the waters.

Psalms 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Psalms 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons <08577>, and all deeps:

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.

Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?

Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon כַּתַּנִּ֔ין, he hath filled his belly with my delicates מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י, he hath cast me out.

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.

Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale <08577> in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Dragon in the New

Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Revelation 12:9 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 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child].

Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,