Old Testament reading: Job 40-42
I am glad this text comes at Day 200, as I hope that after such a length of time that I have earned some degree of your confidence. Contrary to what we were taught in school and what is commonly believed among most people today, I believe dinosaurs and man lived at the same time. I don’t see how anyone can read Job 40 alongside the Creation account of Genesis 1-2 and arrive at any other conclusion. The description of the behemoth in Job 40:13-24 fits that of a dinosaur, perhaps an Apatosaurus. It cannot, as some Bible margin notes imply, describe a hippo or an elephant. The vivid description of the tail being moved like a cedar precludes any identification with the elephant or hippo. Moreover, I believe in dragons. Not that they actually exist today, but that some type of fire-breathing creature did indeed exist at some time. Read the account of the Leviathan in Job 41. There is no other creature fitting this description other than what we know as a dragon. By the way, did you know that dragon “legends” are found in most civilizations around the world? And that the description of these creatures is consistent across the globe? How can this be if dragons are nothing more than a myth?
New Testament reading: Luke 1
Luke’s gospel account might be described as a letter to a friend of God. Like other New Testament books (Timothy, Titus, Philemon, 3 John), Luke’s gospel account is written to a single individual, in this case, Theophilus, whose name is a compound of Theo (God) + philos (friend). Whether this be his given name and he lived up to it, or a nickname given by reason of the life he lived (e.g., Barnabas – Acts 4:36), this is certainly a most noble identifier. It calls to remembrance James 2:23, wherein Abraham is called a friend (philos) of God (Theos). Whereas John’s gospel was written to create faith in men that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God (John 20:30), Luke’s gospel was not written to convert Theophilus. Rather Luke wrote to confirm and reaffirm in Theophilus’ own mind the things in which he had formerly been instructed.
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