Dr. Hovind's Creation Seminar 3, part a - Dinosaurs and the Bible (1999)

- The Block Ness Monster
- Erie's Bessie
- Massachussetts
- California's Nessie
- New York City
- Arkansas’ White River Monster
- Florida Monsters
- Vietnam
- Champ
- A Florida Account

Pterodactyls

- Kongomato
- Bird with No Feathers
- Venezuelan “Giant Bat”
- Orang-Bati
- The Thunderbird

Seminar 3, part a: Dinosaurs and the Bible

Introduction

We covered in the first videotape how the Bible teaches that the earth is only about 6,000 years old, not billions of years old. How dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; they did not live billions of years ago. They were part of the normal Creation. See, God made the World about 6,000 years ago, and 4,400 years there was a flood. Before the flood came the world was very different; people lived a long time, it was just very different. Dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. They were not millions of years ago lizards, they were just pre-flood lizards.

Dinosaurs on the Ark

Too Big?
Species or Kinds?
(Illustration of Dog Kinds)

Too Big?

So the obvious question came up; Did Noah take dinosaurs on the ark? People say, “Dinosaurs on the ark? They're kind of big aren't they?” Well, the big ones were big, but the little ones were little. Noah was six hundred years old when he built that boat; he was smart enough to figure out that you don't have bring the biggest ones you can find; you bring two babies. Just be sure to get a pink one and a blue one. There are all sorts of reasons for bringing babies. They're smaller, they eat less, they weigh less, they sleep more, they're tougher; you know kids fall down and bounce and get up and keep running. Adults fall down and break, or lay there for awhile. Plus, after the flood the young ones would live longer to produce more offspring, and that's why you're bringing them to begin with. So it makes common sense to bring babies of everything onto the ark.

Species or Kinds?

You only had to bring two of each kind. God told him to bring to of every sort. Not two of every species, or two of variety; two of every kind of animal. Bible says they went on to the ark after his kind, after his kind, after his kind, after his kind of every sort. The phrase is in there over and over. Just the basic kinds of animals had to go on to Noah's ark.

Illustration of Dog Kinds

     For instance, today there are 250 varieties of dogs in the world. Noah didn't have to bring 250 pairs of dogs on the ark, [he] just brought two of the dog kind. Since then, there have been a lot of varieties produced. Probably the great dane, chihuahua, and the wolf, and the coyote had a common ancestor-a dog. That's not evolution, it's just a variety.
      I was in Boston and the preacher of the church I was going to speak at called all the colleges to try to get me in to do a debate. The professors all refused, and one college said, “We'll let Kent Hovind come speak if our professors can ask him any questions they want. We want to show our students how dumb these creationists really are.” The preacher called me back and said, “Brother Hovind, would you like to go to this college and let them make fun of you for a couple of hours?” I said, “I'd enjoy that.” So I showed up at the college, got my charts out. There were six professors with all their students in the room. I felt like Daniel in the lion's den. I said, “Well folks, I believe the Bible.” That got a lot of cheers. I said, “And the Bible teaches that the God made the world about 6,000 years ago and 4,400 hundred years ago there was a flood that destroyed the world and Noah built an ark that saved all the critters on board. Since the flood's been over there have been a lot of varieties produced based on pressures of the environment. Producing long-haired, short-haired, but that's not evolution; it's just variation.”
      Then I told them what they believed. I've discovered most evolutionists don't know what they believe. I said, “You guys believe about 20 billion years ago there was a big bang, but you don't know what exploded or where it came from. Then about 4.6 billion years ago the earth cooled down and developed a hard, rocky crust. It rained on the rocks for millions of years and turned them into soup.” That's what the textbooks say folks; I'm not making this up. “As the earth formed, the surface was hot and there were large pools of bubbling lava. It rained on the rocks for millions of years, and formed oceans.” That's what the textbooks says, “millions of years of torrential rains created great oceans, the swirling in the oceans was the dissolved rocks, which came to be known as the soup.” Yes boys and girls, swirling in the waters of the oceans are a bubbling broth of complex chemicals. Progress from a complex chemical suit to a living organism is very slow. I guess it is. Totally stopped. That's how slow it is. It doesn't happen at all. This early life form evolved out of the soup and found someone to marry (pretty good trick) and something to eat and very slowly evolved into everything we see today. That's what they believe. One professor was getting pretty upset about this time. He said, “Mr. Hovind, excuse me, there are 250 varieties of dogs in the world. You believe that all those dogs came just two dogs off Noah's Ark? You except me to believe that?” I said sir, “Would you look at what you're teaching your students. You're teaching your students that all the dogs in world today came from a rock.” He didn't have any more questions after that. That is exactly what they teach, isn't it? I didn't make it up. Talk about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel! Man, you don't think all the dogs came from two dogs off Noah's ark, but you do think that they could come from a rock. Better think that one through one more time.

Flood Legends

China
Mexico

It's also interesting to note about the flood of Noah, don't you think that if there was a worldwide flood the survivors would tell their grandkids about it? Isn't logical that there would be some flood legends surviving today? Guess what? Two hundred and seventy have been found, now close to two ninety this book says, “Two hundred seventy flood legends have been discovered.” Why would so many countries talk about a family saved in a boat?

China

In China they have a legend, it's a story of the history of China. Tells about a family was saved from a great flood. The entire land was flooded; the mountains and everything, one family survived in a boat. The Chinese classic called the Hihking (however you pronounce that). It says, “A family of Fuhi,” which the Chinese consider him the father of their civilization, “History records that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters escaped the great flood. He and his family were the only people alive on earth. After the great flood they repopulated the world.” Sounds pretty close to what the Bible says doesn't it?

Mexico

In Mexico the Toltec Indians have a legend that the original creation lasted 1716 years and was destroyed by a flood and one family survived. Seventeen hundred years, pretty close to what the Bible teaches, 1656. Why would there be so many flood legends? If there wasn't any flood legends, the atheist would say, “If there was a flood why aren't there legends about it?” Well there are nearly three hundred, how many would you like? I think there was a worldwide flood folks.

Where's the Ark?

     It is interesting, if you look at a map of the country of Turkey, at the far right side is a mountain called Mt. Ararat. On the Turkish map this is called Nuh' un Gemisi, “Noah's big boat.” Now the Bible does not say the ark landed on Mt. Ararat. The Bible says the ark rested in the seventh month, now that's interesting, because Noah didn't get out until the thirteenth month. Why did he stay in there six more months? Nothing to eat outside for one thing, and the water hadn't all gone down yet. It took a while. Plus, if you look at my video tape number six we talk about that; why they stayed in those extra few months. It would take a while for crops to grow. You can plant a garden and get it to grow and eat in three months, right? Four months max. So in six months things would be growing just fine, they let all the animals off. It said the ark rested on the mountains, plural, mountains of Ararat.
      Now, some people think Noah's Ark is actually on Mt. Ararat. I know Ken Ham, he is a friend of mine; I was at his office last week. He has a wonderful ministry, Answers in Genesis, he says that Noah's Ark is on Mt. Ararat. I know John Morris and Henry Morris, and they think it's on Mt. Ararat. They are friends of mine from California, ICR, and I really love their ministry and appreciate what they do. I know Carl Baugh in Glen Rose, Texas; he's been there a bunch of times; he thinks it's up on Mt. Ararat. It might be, I don't know.
      I just want to let you know there's another school of thought, there are some people that think that the ark is not even on that mountain. They think it is seventeen miles away. I also happen to know Ron Wyatt. He's a good friend of mine, here's his website at www.pilgrimpromo.com, and Ron thinks that Noah's ark is not even on the mountain, and many other people agree with Ron. They think that this might be the ark, this moat-shaped object in the background. It is seventeen miles away from Mt. Ararat, still in the mountains of Ararat, but not on the mountain of Ararat.
      They say the ark collapsed in on itself; it's folded out on its side, much wider than it used to be. They found iron rivets all over that area. I held some in my hands when I was at Ron's house in Nashville, Tennessee; been there many times. Talked to him last week. These iron rivets are found all over that area. Apparently the ark was bolted together. The Turkish government studied the site and they said they think it's Noah's ark and they built a visitor's center. They started to build a highway, but a war broke out. It's not a safe place to go over there now.

The Design of the Ark

Drogue Stones
Moon Pool

Drogue Stones

They found twelve giant anchor stones. Great big huge 9,000 pound rocks, with hole drilled through the top. It's interesting, the hole is curved. I've built nine houses; I have drilled bunches of holes. And I don't know how you would drill a curved hole through a rock; that would be interesting. The bigger the rock is the bigger the hole is. Apparently, this was to put a bigger rope in to hold the rock hanging over the side of the boat, to be what's called a drogue stone. See, if you had a bunch of rocks hanging over the side of the boat it keeps the boat stabilized in stormy weather. It kind of anchors you to the water, sort of. You know these rocks create a drag down there. If your ropes are long enough, let them touch bottom. If it really gets windy, the rocks drag behind you and it turns the boat to a right angle to the waves; you can't capsize.
People say, “Now hold on a minute, if you have rocks hanging over the side of the boat that would slow you down.” He wasn't trying to go anywhere. Where was there to go? He was just trying to float, right?

Moon Pool

One guy, in a debate I did, is a former preacher turned atheist (in debate number seven out there on the table), he said, “You know, you can't build a boat that big, it will go over the waves and it will bend and flex and eventually break apart. They tried it with a six master.” Well Noah's ark didn't have any masts, it wasn't trying to sail it was just trying to float. So that really eases the problem.
Some people think that the ark might have had a moon pool. A moon pool is a hole in the floor so when you go over a wave the water comes up inside the hole part way, it's got walls built up inside of course, so you don't sink the boat. This relieves the stress on the ship. A moon pool relieves the stress and as the water goes up and down inside that hole; it acts like a giant piston and it pumps air in and out of the boat. Might be a necessary feature with all them critters on board. Might pray for a wave once in a while. Lord, send a wave, please--quick. A little methane gas build up in here. I don't know if it had a moon pool or not, some people think it did, some people don't, I don't know. Not much left of a 4,400 year old wooden boat.

Dinosaurs' “Extinction”

Liberal Illustration
What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
(A Different Environment; The Plight of Dinosaurs)
Dragon Tales
The Catholic Bible
Babylon
More Dragons
The Ica Stones
Dinosaur Sightings and Legends
(The Monongahela; Giant Squid and Octopus)

After the flood was over, what happened to the dinosaurs? The textbooks are always asking the kids the question, “What happened to the dinosaurs boys and girls? Did a meteor strike the Yucatan Peninsula in 65 million B.C. and make the dinosaurs go extinct with the iridium layer all over the world.” They're asking the wrong question. The question is not “what made the dinosaurs go extinct;” the question is, “did the dinosaurs go extinct?”

Liberal Illustration

See, liberals are great to getting arguing about the wrong subject. They always say to me, “Do you think that we should have prayer in public schools?” Or, “Should we teach creation in public schools?” I say, “That's a good question, and I would be glad to talk about that with you. However, there is another question we need to talk about first. Should we have public schools? Let's discuss that one first.” If we should have them, then who would run them would be the second obvious question. You better read your constitution because the tenth amendment states that anything that is not spelled out in this document is left to the states. Which means we should totally shut down the department of education at the national level. Shut it down.
When Joe Scarborough, our representative from this district in Florida, he came to my house trying to get me to vote for him. I said, “Joe, what is your opinion of public schools?” He said, “The tenth amendment.” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “They have no right existing.” He said, “There should be no federal interference in public schools.” He said, “Same for welfare.” Yay Joe! You got my vote. Look, if we just got to what the Constitution says, 80 percent of the problems would disappear. Federal government is involved in a lot of things they shouldn't be involved in. I speak in public schools all the time. My brother is going to retire from public school teaching this year. He's the one that led me to the Lord. My brother has been in public school teaching for twenty-eight years and is retiring. My mom retired from teaching public school. I'm not against public schools; I just think they should be run by the local cities or maybe the county, but certainly not the federal government in Washington. Shut it down at that level. It can't possibly work.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Anyway, back to the dinosaurs, what happened to them? It's not a meteor, and they are asking the wrong question. By the way, if you want to keep up with public schools and what's happening, you might want to get ahold of an article on the web called “Exodus2000”. Or if you want to keep up with daily events with public schools and what's happening; get a hold of Fred, redb001@spectra.net. See me later and I'll give you that, spectra.net. Fred will add you to the loop and you'll get about a hundred e-mails a day keeping you posted on what's happening with the public school system and how you can vote intelligently on stuff like that. Anyway, After the flood, I think two things happened to the dinosaurs.

A Different Environment

Number one, they got off the ark and they faced a hostile world. It's was very different than the pre-flood world, because the canopy of water that used to protect them was gone. You noticed before the flood people lived over nine hundred years. Right after the flood, life spans dropped off instantly to four hundred years, than two hundred, and then a hundred. Something changed. Well, the canopy of water was gone, radiation was getting in. Air pressure was less, less oxygen. You get all sorts detrimental effects of the loss of that canopy. So the same thing happened to the dinosaurs they were dying off because of the climate changes; they couldn't live long enough.

The Plight of Dinosaurs

Secondly, man was hunting them. Back in those days they called them dragons. They killed the dragons for meat. There would be a lot of hamburger in one brachiosaurus. You could feed the village for a while, right? Or because they were a menace, or just to be a hero; “I slew the dragon.” Thousands of stories like that.
See, as the population of people began to grow, the population of bigger, ferocious animals began to diminished. Same thing happened here in west Florida. How many grizzly bears in west Florida? None. How many were here five hundred years ago? Probably a bunch. When people move in, the bigger, ferocious animals were driven off or killed off. That's just the way it's always been. So as population in the world began to grow, the dinosaurs began to be killed off. (Those that weren't dying from the climate changes.)

Dragon Tales

There are thousands of stories of people killing dragons. They called them dragons because the name dinosaur was just invented in 1841. So of course they didn't call them dinosaurs before that; there was no such word. If you read history you'll read about Gilgamesh slaying a dragon. Beowulf slew a dragon; St. George slew a dragon. There are thousands of these stories of people killing dragons. Are they all just mythology? Why are there so many of them? And why are they so similar?
Here's a Thai restaurant that has a picture of a boat from Thailand with a dragon head on it. Thai legends talk about dragon slayers. A Russian medallion shows a man slaying a dragon. A Bulgarian postage stamp shows a man killing a dragon. Many national heroes in these ancient older countries are dragon slayers. I think dinosaurs lived all through history all the way up to 600 BC. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, had as his symbol the god Marduke on top of a fire-breathing dragon. You say, “Brother Hovind, you don't believe in fire-breathing dragons do you?” Yeah, you better watch video tape number three; there really were fire-breathing dragons. We'll talk about that later.

The Catholic Bible

In the Catholic Bible you'll see that the book of Daniel has two extra chapters. Daniel 13 and 14. In Daniel 14 it tells the story of Daniel killing the dragon that the Babylonians worshiped. Could they have had a dragon in Babylon in 600 BC. Oh, I think they did.

Babylon

I know that Saddam Insane, Hussein, thinks he is Nebuchadnezzar reincarnated. The guy is crazy; he's got huge pictures of himself all over Iraq; excellent targets for the F-15's. He has his picture on the front of their gold currency. The guy has a little ego problem. Saddam spent a fortune rebuilding the ancient city of Babylon. You know Babylon was destroyed about 600 BC and the Bible says that it will be destroyed in the latter days. For years people have laughed at the Bible, ha, ha, saying Babylon has already been destroyed. Well guess what, Saddam has rebuilt it in the last twenty years. They're using it right now, it is rebuilt. When they found the original city of old Babylon, the ruins, they dug down into the sand and found perfectly preserved in the dry sand over there were the laws of the old city. The old city laws had hundreds and hundreds of pictures of dragons on them.

More Dragons

      How did they know about dragons in 600 BC? Well, there were some still around; that's how they knew about them. Alexander the Great in 300 BC reported that his soldiers were scared by dragons when they conquered part of India. This Roman mosaic shows two long neck dragons fighting or kissing, can't tell what happening for sure. (Well, that would be necking wouldn't it? Wow!) Anyway, how did the Romans know about dragons in the second century after Christ? There were still some still around. Probably smaller and more rare and generally in water. They would be the hardest ones to exterminate, the ones on land would be the easiest to kill off, generally the water-dwelling dinosaurs were still around.
      The Vikings sure talked about dragons a lot. They called it the “Cracken”-the great dragon of the sea. They built their ships to have dragon heads on them. All the ancient north Scandinavian literature talks about dragons within the sea. They built their ships to look that way.
      In 1572 an Italian peasant killed a dragon that was bothering his cows. They had it mounted for a museum display. [A] scientist documented the whole thing, Ulysses Aldavondus. You know, in 1572 you could have gone to a museum in Italy visit a dinosaur on display. Not the bones-the skin stuffed and mounted by a taxidermist.
      Did you know that if you could get a dictionary or an encyclopedia from four hundred or five hundred years ago, look up the word dragon; it will say “very rare, though still living animals.” Somebody called me last week and said I'm going to send you a copy of a dictionary that I've got from 1928, I think it was. When I looked up dragon, it said “very rare, though still living animals.” In 1928 in the dictionary, interesting.
      A city in France was renamed Nerluke because of a man named Nerluke who slew the dragon that was bothering the city. Still called Nerluke, France today. . The Indians in Arizona apparently used to hunt dinosaurs and they carved them in the walls of the Grand Canyon. Dinosaurs carved on the walls of the Grand Canyon? Sure, Indians hunted them. There's a round-bodied, four-legged; long-necked dinosaurs carved on one of the walls of the Grand Canyon. There's a painting from a cave in Africa with round body, long neck; four legs next to the native running away from it. Smart native!

The Ica Stones

When they went down to Ica, Peru out in the desert in 1962 the peasants began bringing in these strange rocks to sell to the tourists; they were finding them buried in the desert. They found quite a huge pile of them. They became known as the Ica stones from Ica, Peru. A friend of mine from Canada was down there for eight months, studying these things. He gave me scores of pictures that he has of these Ica stones. I think we have some on our web site, or we're putting some on our web site. If you want to call up my web site at www.drdino.com we'll put a few pictures on there about the Ica stones. Carvings of dinosaurs on these stones, 50,000 of them. They range in size from golf ball size to the size of a La-Z-Boy chair. Every known dinosaur found carved on the Ica stones. Sometimes the people are killing the dinosaurs, sometimes they're riding them, sometimes they are making them work. Pretty strange.
That's my friend that was down there for eight months studying the carvings all over the desert out there. I read the book by a guy that has 11,000 of them in his museum, Dr. Cabaro, I think that's how you pronounce his name. He has studied this very intensively, and he says “There's no question that man and dinosaurs lived together.” Then he says, “This proves that man was here two hundred million years ago.” Man, you got great research and the wrong conclusions. No, this proves that our whole dating history for the world is wrong. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Here's an Indian chief cutting a head off a dinosaur, this one shows a man riding a dinosaur. Ica stones found all over there.

Dinosaur Sightings and Legends

     During the age of sailing ships, which really started with Columbus, up until about [one] hundred years ago when they went to diesel engines or steam engines. For about a four hundred year span of human history was called the great age of sailing ships. During this time there are thousands of legends of people sighting sea monsters. Well, if you're in a sailing boat it's pretty quiet going through the water. Today, with your diesel engine on board of your metal hull boat; sound travels great under water, they can hear you coming a hundred miles away. They've learned to avoid the shipping lanes, I'm sure. But, during this age of sailing ships, there are many stories of people sighting sea monsters.
      Natural History of Norway by Bishop Eric Fontopodum reported sea monsters. Many stories in his book he wrote. Missionary Hans Eged reported seeing a sea monster near Greenland. I was preaching at a church in Delaware, a man came to me after the service and said, “Brother Hovind my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was Hans Eged; in his diary he reported seeing a sea monster near Greenland.” Captain Peter McKay aboard H.M.S. Nautilus, a British ship, reported that they saw a sixty-foot sea monster swim right under their boat. They watched it for twenty minutes. The sailors on board said, “Captain, please don't mention this is the log book; we're going to get laughed at.” Well, he put it in the log book anyway. Sure enough, they got laughed at.

      The Monongahela

You want to read an amazing story? Go to the UWF library, go to QL89 and there is a book in there. I think it's Monsters of the Deep by Thomas Helm who died recently, but he's from Crestview, Florida. I think that's the book where he tells the story of about the Monongahela, the ship that actually shot, killed, and cut up and ate part of a one hundred and three foot, six inch long sea monster. Another ship stopped to see what on earth was going on. They said, “Look at this, a hundred and three foot sea monster.” The Monongahela sold the oil; they boiled the blubber down to the oil and sold it to the other ship. They said, “Look, fellows, we're out for whales-we're going after whales. We got the bones of this sea monster in the hull of the Monongahela. You guys can take this oil; go back to port, tell them we'll be back in six months and show them the proof.” Six months later the Monongahela never showed up. A year later; never showed up. Sometime after that some boards washed on the shore of Japan, I believe, that said Monongahela on the side. Ship sank in a storm. But, the sailors that saw it said, “Look, it was clear sea serpent oil. We've never seen anything like it; we saw the creature ourselves. But, people laughed at them anyways, because they liked proof. Interesting story about the Monongahela.
During World War I, a German submarine commander, a U-boat captain, said he sank a British ship. When it exploded under water, a sixty-foot long sea monster came flying up out of the water; had big paddle-shaped flippers, kind of like a plesiosaurus; had an alligator shaped head, maybe it was a kronosaurus.

Giant Squid and Octopus

There are stories of giant octopus pulling ships underwater. Come on Brother Hovind, octopus never get that big! They get pretty big. Did you know that an octopus washed up on beach in St. Augustine, Florida? It was two hundred feet across and weighed five tons. Here's the article from the paper. Orlando newspaper. I got the article on one of the posters around here about the octopus. Two hundred foot-that's a big octopus.
That's not even the biggest one. A whale was killed near Seattle, WA. Inside the whale's stomach was one arm to an octopus that was a hundred and fifty feet long. See, whales love to eat octopus or squid, either one, and if a whale eats too much octopus, he'll get sick and puke it back up. If you've ever seen a piece of puked up octopus floating around in the ocean, be sure to grab it, because it's worth more that gold, pound for pound. Does anybody know what they make out of puked-up octopus? Used in perfume, that is correct. That explains a few things doesn't it fellows? You want get some brownie points? Say, (sniff) Hey dear, you smell like a puked-up octopus. You can sleep on the couch for a month, too. There are some awfully big critters out there in the ocean, folks. I mean some really big ones.
At Yale University they've got a model of a giant squid hanging up there in their Peabody Museum. This baby giant squid washed up on the beach in New Zealand; they said full grown it would have been a hundred and fifty feet long. There's big stuff in the ocean, the ocean is pretty big. I flew back over the Pacific coming back from Australia, and Brian over here on this camera works in my office; I said, “Brian, the Pacific Ocean is huge.” He said, “That's just the top of it.” I thought, wow!! What a thought. That is just the top of it.

Job - Dinosaurs in the Bible

Hard Times
Romans 8:28
God Answers Job
(Scientifically Accurate; Why God was Asking)
Behemoth
(Biblical description; Satanic Perversion; The Devil's Lie; Back to Behemoth)

Now people say, wait a minute; if dinosaurs lived with man and Noah took them on the ark and they are mentioned in history, are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? Well, yes. You say, “I read my Bible; I didn't see them.” Well, they're in there.

Hard Times

     If you read the book of Job (the book of Job has forty-two chapters, right in the center of the Bible). In the first two chapters Job lost everything: his camels and sheep and oxen were stolen or killed, his ten kids all died, his wife turned against him, he lost his health. Job is covered with boils from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet, and his four friends came to torment him-or to comfort him. They must have been Baptist; the way I've got it figured. They said, “Job, everything is going wrong? We know why, you sinned.”
      Listen folks, if something bad happens to somebody, you don't know why it happened; you should love them, pray for them, encourage them, and shut up. Don't go to the hospital when they get their gallstones taken out and walk in the recovery room and say,”Hey brother, these ain't gallstones these are tithes and offerings; God's getting them out of you one way or another.” Don't do that; let God take care of why everything is going wrong.
      Job is sitting there in the ashes, with all ten kids all dead, his wife turned against him; he's got a broken piece of pottery and he's scrapping the puss out the boils that cover his body. His friends talked to him for thirty-five chapters. Most of the book of Job is these four guys arguing with Job about why it all happened. One of those guys was the shortest man mentioned in the Bible-Bildad the Shuhite [shoe-height]. Pretty short! Cousin Nehemiah [knee-high-miah] was next to the shortest. Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar they talked to Job for thirty-five chapters. Telling Job, “You must have sinned.”

Romans 8:28

     Job didn't know about Romans 8:28, but he's saying, “Lord, I wish You'd answer me; why is this going on? Boy, I wish he would answer me.” Well, the answer was coming, Job. Romans 8:28, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose.” By the way, it doesn't say that everything that happens is good. Everything works together for good.
      Have you ever been real hungry? Been hungry? Suppose you came to my house and said, “Brother Hovind, I'm hungry.” I say, “I'll fix you up; here's a cup of flour, eat this.” Cup of flour, ugh. How 'bout this? A tablespoon full of butter? Ugh. I got it! A spoonful of salt. Here open your mouth. Ugh. How 'bout a spoonful of grease. Here open your mouth. How 'bout we mix them all together and make pancakes? Ahh, now you're talking, right? I don't know if that's the ingredients in pancakes or not, but close enough. You know what I'm talking about. The individual ingredients don't taste good, but together they taste good.
      And God didn't say that everything that happens is good; he said that everything that works together for good. But, not for everybody, and not even for every Christian. You might be a Christian and have bad things happen to you. He said, this is for those who “Love God, and to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Really, all you need to worry about in this life is make sure your heart is right with God. That'll be a full time job, by the way. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?” Just keeping your wicked heart right with God will keep you busy for the rest of your life.
      So Job is there scrapping puss out of the boils saying, “Why, God, did this happen to me? Please answer me why?” Folks, you don't have to live on this planet very long before you'll have those words coming out of your mouth. “God, why are you doing this to me?”

God Answers Job

     Finally, in chapter 38, “The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 'Who is this that darkeneth council by word without knowledge'.” In other words, “Job, your four buddies did not know what they were talking about.” “Gird up now thy loins like a man pride will demand of thee an answer thou me. Where wast though when I laid the foundations of the earth?” I read that twenty-nine years ago as a brand new Christian. And thought, “What a dumb question.” “Where were you when I built the earth?”
      Why would God ask him something like that? How many of you were here when God built the earth? Was anybody here when God made the world. Now kids, this is going to be complicated so listen carefully. Now, since you were not here when God built the world, that means-that God is older than you are. How many can figure that out with no help? Ok. Did it ever occur to you that God is stronger than you are? Did it ever occur to you that God is smarter than you are? Did it ever occur to you that God is richer than you are? You say, “Brother Hovind, everybody is richer than I are.” Well, God sure is. Try this one. I've said this one a thousand times and never understood it once, but I like saying it. Did it ever occur to you, that nothing ever occurred to God. Things occur to me all the time. I say, “Wow, I never thought of that before.” Did you know that never happens to God; He already thought of everything. You say, “God did you know.? Yes, son I knew.” How do you sneak up on a guy like that? Did you know that God knows everything you're thinking. And get this, He loves you anyway! What a nice guy.
      The Lord said, “Job, where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” Job does not answer the question. Job doesn't say a word. So God asked him another one.”Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Job doesn't answer, so God asks him another one. And another one, and another one, another one. God asked him eight-four questions in a row. Job never answered one.

Scientifically Accurate

God said,”Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” Scientists didn't even know there were springs in the sea until 1977. God asked Job this question about four thousand years ago. See, science is very slowly catching up with the few parts of the Bible. The Lord said, “Job where is the way where light dwelleth?” That's an amazing verse folks. See, light doesn't stay in a place; it's in a way, it's always moving. You can't give me a jar of light can you? Pretty amazing. God said, “By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?” The light causes the wind? The weatherman didn't even know about that until about a hundred and fifty years ago. But, the light causes the wind doesn't it? Sunlight heats up an area, makes it expand, hot air rises, expands, creates a wind current. Perfectly scientific right there.
The Lord said, “Job, canst though send lightning?” Boy, it's a good thing I can't. How many of you can think of somebody that's lucky to be alive, because you can't send the lighting? Can you think of a few? There you go; maybe a boss, or a sergeant in the military. God said,”Can you send the lightning?”

Why God was Asking

You know God asked Job eighty-four questions; Job never answered one. These are the kind of questions that don't need an answer. The answer is obvious. Actually, the purpose of the question is to change the person's attitude. These are the same kind of questions you dads have to ask your kids. I have three kids; I know what I'm talking about. Kids get to a certain age and they start to get kinda of cocky. They think maybe they should make the rules around the house. You dads will understand this; kid comes in one day and says,”Hey dad, listen I believe that I should be able to stay out until four in the morning with my friends. After all, I'm ten now.” Dad says,”Hold on just a minute kid. You'd like to know why you can't stay out 'til four in the morning. Well, son let me ask you a few questions. Who pays the electric bill around this house? Who pays the gas bill? Who's paying for the house? Who's paying for the insurance? Who paid for those clothes you're wearing son? Who paid for the bed you slept in last night? Who pays for the food you eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, and eat? Who pays for the hot water and soap you took a shower with about a month ago? Let's just get it straight right now, son. The Bible is very clear, he who payeth the bills, maketh the rules. II Opinions chapter four. You see, son, me:dad; you:kid. If you are going to sleep under my roof, and eat my food, you're going to do it my way. When you want to do it your way, go get your own roof to sleep and get your own food to eat and you can do it your way. That's the golden rule son; he that hath the gold, makes the rules. Who do you think you are kid? Where were you when we got this property and cleared this land and drove off the Indians and walked uphill to school forty miles in the snow barefoot, both ways? Me, Dad; you, kid.
I think that's what God is doing with Job. Job is sitting there griping, “God why did you kill all my kids?” The Lord says, “Job where were you when I built the earth? Job can you send the lighting? Job, can you do this.?” Eighty-four questions in a row. Job was getting what we call today, an attitude adjustment. Anybody ever have to give one of those to one of your kids? An attitude adjustment. Mmm. Sometimes you have to bend a child over to straighten them out, but it works pretty good. God was giving Job an attitude adjustment. God asked Job eighty-four questions in a row; Job never answered one.

Behemoth

We come to chapter forty, God is still talking, and He said, “Behold now Behemoth.” Behemoth? What on earth is a Behemoth? Some reference Bibles say that “Behemoth” is an elephant or hippopotamus. It can not be either of those. I think “Behemoth” is the long-neck dinosaur, of which there is about thirteen varieties: the brachiosaur, the apatosaur, the cetiosaur, mamenshisaur, seismosaur, my blondisaurus-just make sure to talk to her kind of slow; she's down here on the table.

Biblical description

     I think when God said, “Behold now, Behemoth.” He's talking about brachiosaurus, the long-neck dinosaur. It says it eats grass like an ox. Some people say, “Now wait a minute, Brother Hovind, a lot of animals eat grass.” I know. Better look at the next verse.
      The next verse says,”His strength is in his loins and his force is in the navel of his belly. The biggest, strongest part on him is his belly. People say, “Elephants have a big belly.” I've got one right here. Hippopotamus have a big belly; I've seen them. Brachiosaurus has a big belly; I've seen them. This guy's got a big belly. Better look at the next verse, right?
      Next verse says,”He moveth his tail like a cedar.” His tail is like a cedar tree? Have you ever seen an elephant's tail? Would that remind you of a cedar tree? I don't think so, no.
      Next verse says,”His bones are strong pieces of brass, his bones are like bars of iron.” This guy had big heavy duty bones. They did, by the way. Here's one on the table. This is a real toe bone from a brachiosaurus. Now, kids this is going to be kind of complicated, so listen carefully. The reason he had such big toe bones-is because he had big toes. How many can figure that out with no help? He had those big toes because he had a big foot. They're big enough footprints to take a bath in. They had that big foot, because they had a big leg to hold up. Just the front leg is twenty feet tall. They had that big leg, because they had a big body. The biggest one they've ever found was found in Alberta, Canada. They say it's a new world record, one-hundred and fifty feet from nose to tail. They say it's going to take them sixty years to dig is out of the ground, because it is a government project. They say that when it was alive it probably weighed a hundred tons. Now, a hundred tons is a big number. Big numbers do not fit in a human brain; Congress knows that and takes advantage of it all the time. But, a hundred tons is equal to fourteen schools buses put together. That means if he were to come by and step on you, you would be deeply impressed by him. You would be road pizza.
      Speaking of government projects, I got to share with you folks my new invention. I've invented something that's going to make the richest man in the world. I'm going to save so much money for the highway department, construction crews, utility companies, and the military. All I want is ten percent of the savings; I'll be the richest man in the world. I have invented a shovel that will stand up by itself; you won't have to hire that guy to lean on it anymore. That must have been that crew working on Highway 29 here in Pensacola, man.
      Next verse says,”He is the chief of the ways of God.” He's the chief, that's the Hebrew word Rischa which means “The principal, the chief, the beginning.” He's the biggest animal God ever made. That wouldn't be the elephant or hippopotamus, it'd be the brachiosaurus.

Satanic Perversion

     You know, it fits the pattern that the devil works. Whenever God makes things, the devil tries to ruin them. God invented some beautiful things and the Devil has tried to ruin them ever since. God invented music; God loves music, and the Devil has invented some ungodly kinds of music you ought not listen to. Somebody asked me on time, “Brother Hovind, do you know what you get when you play country music backwards?” I said, “No.” They said, “You get your wife, your pickup, and your hound dog all back.” Oh, yeah, backmasking I heard about that. God invented marriage and family and sex and God made them male and female. He understands it pretty good, and he put some rules down. Boys, don't touch the girls until you're married to them. Now, if you don't want to touch them, you stay away from me please. I saw your kind in San Francisico. God put the rules down because he wants the best for his kids. God invented the dinosaurs and they represented the awesome power of God.
      You know, scientists today are still amazed how a giraffe, seventeen feet tall, can bend down and get a drink and lift his head up and not get a headache. Incredible network of blood vessels in their neck; their heart is two feet long to pump the blood up there, incredible. This guy's head was fifty feet off the ground-engineering marvel.

      The Devil's Lie

The Devil couldn't fool Adam about them, Adam named them. He knew they [humans] were with them. Devil couldn't fool Noah with dinosaurs, because he had them on the ark. He fed them every morning. The Devil couldn't fool people for hundreds of years, because they knew about them. But, as time came along, dinosaurs became more rare; big ones died off or killed off. Thousand years ago, they were extremely rare, five hundred years ago they were even more rare, and the population of people started to sky rocket. So here we've got billions of people on the earth that [have] never seen a dinosaur. Two hundred years ago, when they found the bones and put one together, the Devil said,”Ha, Ha, here's my chance; I've been waiting six thousand years for this. These critters have always lived with man, I know that and God knows that. But these people don't know that.” The devil said, “I think that I'm going to tell these folks that they lived millions of years ago, and if they believe it, it will make them doubt the Bible.”
And boy, has it worked good. For the last hundred and fifty years, boys and girls go to kindergarten and they learn, “Boys and girls, we are going to read about prehistoric animals.” You open up the first page of the book and it shows a dinosaur. The first sentence in the book says, “Millions of years ago.” Right? And those kids are learning to doubt the Bible before they can even read it. Satan is reaching the kids when they are three and four years old. And we are waiting to win them back to the Lord when they're twelve or sixteen, and the devil already has them.
Go to any public school-I was in a public school a couple years ago. I had three-hundred first graders in the room with me. I spoke on dinosaurs. That was exciting; three hundred first graders. I said, “Boys and girls, when did dinosaurs live?” Instantly , the entire crowd shouted out, “Millions of years ago.” How did they learn that? Where's the Christian? Isn't that calling Jesus a liar? Jesus said that the creation of Adam was the beginning and no death until Adam sinned. I think it's time Christians quit being afraid of the subject dinosaurs and start using them for the glory of God.

Back to Behemoth

     The Bible says,”He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of reed and fens.” The word “Fens” is the old English word that means “The swamp.” Behemoth lived in the swamp. Well, the biggest swamp; n the world is in the middle of Africa. It's called the Likouala Swamp. Fifty-five thousand square miles. Bigger than the entire state of Arkansas, where our President and her husband Bill come from. This is a big swamp folks. Hard to comprehend, for an American, the size of Africa. Here's how America compares to Africa. It's gigantic. That Congo swamp is eighty percent unexplored. Did you know that there have been many reports out of the Congo swamp of dinosaurs still alive? That swamp is bigger than any one of these yellow states. Same size as these three red states here. A swamp as big as Florida, eighty percent unexplored.
      You say, “Wait Brother Hovind, dinosaurs still alive?” Well, there aren't any giant ones; they couldn't survive today, because the climate is different. There have been 20,000 reported sitings of dinosaurs this century. How many have ever heard of Loch Ness Monster? Lake Champlain Monster? Mokele-mbembe in the Congo swamp in Africa. The stories go on and on. We cover that on the second half of this video tape; dinosaurs that are still alive. I don't want you to think that there are millions of them. It's still safe to go to the mall. But, there is still some around folks. Closest one I know to here was seen in 1962 in Pensacola Harbor. Get videotape two and watch the last half and you'll see a story that will absolutely amaze you. Four kids eaten by a dinosaur. One survived and saw it happen to the other four. Got the whole story right there on the table; we've got it on video tape number two.
      You say, “Now Brother Hovind, if dinosaurs have been living with man all through history, what about Job 41 where it talks about Leviathan the fire-breathing dragon? Was there really a fire-breathing dragons? Oh, yes. We talk about that in the next session. You say, “Now wait a minute. If the textbooks are telling the kids the earth is billions of years old, are there any other lies in the textbooks?” A bunch. We cover that on video tape number four. Some people say, “Now, hold on Brother Hovind, if there was a flood what made the world flood? Why did the world all of the sudden flood?” Well, there are a couple of theories about that, and I'll share the Hovind theory with you on video tape number six. Then people say, “If Charlie Darwin wrote the book about evolution in 1859, why did he do that, and what affect did it have on our society? How does this tie in with socialism, communism, Marxism, Nazism, the New World Order?” Oh, it ties in directly, and we cover that on video tape number five. How they tie in with the evil things that have happened in this world.

Continued on Part 3b


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