PERRY: Okay. So, can I give you another one? The Bible says in the Book of Revelation Satan is the dragon. And it gives you an interesting revelation. It says “the tail of the dragon drew a third of the stars and cast them to the earth.” Now let me ask you something. Why did, why does our Bible call it a dragon when the Greek word “dreikoun” is actually serpent?
Actually, technically, you know, you know what it, how it actually reads? I saw in the heaven a seven-headed serpent. Because when you use the word “dragon,” dragon, now you got to remember back in the time when the King James Bible was written there was all this mythology, and it was mythology, about dragon slayers. Dragons.
So they, they identify Satan as a dragon but the Greek word is a seven-headed snake. You all with me? Now in the Garden [of Eden] you have a snake crawling around a tree, but in Revelation he’s been eaten something he got so big he’s fills up the heavens. C’mon somebody! Serpent. All right. Now here’s what’s interesting. This may be one of the reasons why, too, that word is “dragon.” Because in the constellations of heaven right in the dead center is a constellation that always has its eyes on “Virgo, the Virgin” and that constellation is called “Draco, the Dragon” with its mouth open as if to devour the woman.
Now go back to Revelation 12: “I saw a woman in the heavens giving birth and a great red dragon ready to devour the woman as soon as the child was born.” So in other words to us, we’re saying “John, why didn’t you just say: And I saw Israel in the last days and Israel was going to have to go to the wilderness because the devil was after her.” Wouldn’t that have been the easiest way of saying it? But understand this. God wanted the Greek and Roman culture to take that Book and read it! Because remember it wasn’t just Jews it was Gentiles that had come in and these Gentiles had come out of mythology. C’mon, you’ll get this in a minute.
They’d come out of Greek mythology. They’d come out of Roman tradition. They’d come out of paganism. And God says I’m going to use symbols that those Gentile brains are familiar with. And I’m going to get them to read this book and then they’re going to, they’re going to dig out through my word what I’m telling them. Are you all going to get this in a minute. Isn’t that amazing, though?
AUDIENCE: Yeah! Yes!
