"THE DINOSAUR MESSAGE".............(Job 40:15-24)-(Job 41-"Leviathan")

*Today, we are going to remove the "evolutionary framework", get rid of the "millions of years", and take the bible seriously about this controversial subject!  I believe God's word holds the explanation for dinosaurs and their disappearence...and what you are about to hear will fit the facts, and make perfect sense!  *I am not a palentologist, nor have I studied Anthropology......the scientific world would say that I'm crazy because I believe the bible!
*(S-cake/tv shows/rides/cartoons/books/Brachiosaurs) 
Intro:  Children and adults are facinated by these mysterious monsters!  We make dino birthday cakes for our children, TV shows and movies are about dinosaurs! AMUSEMENT PARKS carry dinosaur rides, the movie JURRASSIC PARK made millions in the box office and in marketed goods!  Wev'e got thousands of toys and books about them....but what does God tell us about their origin and purpose?

TODAY, WE WILL ASK AND ANSWER SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
(1)-DID DINOSAURS REALLY EXHIST?-(100% YES!)

*(S-Earth)-  In the beginning, Genesis 1:6-8 describes the world as being a different place than we know it to be today....it never rained until the great flood, and there was a great canopy that encircled the earth so that the climate was like a big green-house.  There were no seasons or storms as Genesis 2:5-6 seem to indicate.  Genesis 1:9-10 tells us that the LAND was in one place and the sea in one place.(1 Chron.1:19-"In Peleg's days the EARTH WAS DIVIDED")
*(S-Trees/*)-  The bible states that in the days prior to the Great Flood, things got VERY-VERY BIG!  Archeologists have dug up fossilized asparagus stalks over 40 feet long, and people lived VERY-VERY LONG LIVES! (Pre-flood 900 yrs+/Post-flood not over 175 yrs.) 
*(S-"Cheif") .....So, according to the text in Job, "behemoth" was the "CHEIF" or LARGEST LAND ANIMAL that God ever created....dinosaurs were the largest to walk the dry earth!    
*(S-Elephant/**)-  Have you ever noticed that ALL large land animals of today have little puney "pig-tails"?  The Lord distinguised "BEHEMOTH" as an animal that was the LARGEST.....yet has disappeared!

(2)-WHEN DID DINOSAURS LIVE?-(very recently-3000-4300 yrs ago)

*The bible refers to many common animals we know today...lions, wolves, bears, sheep, dogs, birds, reptiles and insects; what is interesting is that this list in Job and other books includes three animals we no longer recognize---BEHEMOTH-THE DRAGON-& LEVIATHAN....these were such large animals that the bible goes to great lengths to describe them to us.
*(S-Footprint/*)-*GENESIS 1:24-28 indicates that all land animals were created on the SAME DAY as man was...on the sixth day!   So MAN and DINOSAUR LIVED TOGETHER ON EARTH AT THE SAME TIME!!!.....
*(S-Man & dino Jordan/*)-  Contrary to what's written in your dinosaur books and taught in many school systems around our country, the world has not exhisted for more than 7,000 years according to God's word!   The bible was written in HUMAN TERMS, a mtn is still a mtn, the sun is still the sun, and a day is STILL a day!  God made everything in 6 literal days, and rested on the seventh day!  *Though "with God a day is as a thousand years", the bible was written in terms of human comprehension and timing!  The Lord just wants us to know that he doesn't operate  within the limits of time!  (John 14:2-...."if it were not so I would have told you")  *The dinosaurs didn't live millions of years ago....they lived only a few thousand years ago!-(You either believe God's word, or you believe some book-worm in Washington at a museum!-SCIENCE or the SAVIOUR!!!)
*(S-Time?.....)-  In the year 1920, for the first time ever, there were 1 billion people on earth.  If you go back just 200 years, people shared basically the same technology from the beginning of creation....this would seem to indicate a young world!
*(S-Fossil dig/finger bones/fossil pile)-  The reason dinosaurs weren't talked about until the last century or so is that we didn't have modern explosives nor excavation equipment to get down into the post-flood sediment!   *Dinosaurs were discovered in the early 1820's-(Megalosaurus & Iguanodon)....and were called "dinosaurs" because, once assembed they produced GIANT CREATURES (thunder-lizards).
*(S-fully assembled?)-  People who don't believe in dinosaurs tell me that "they just got a pile of bones and made what they wanted you to see"!
*(S-"Sue" 1&2)-  "Sue" is the name given a 41 foot long 13 foot high T-rex whose 5 foot head weighs over a ton!  This giant lizard was found in the Western US 90% fully intact in bedrock....so God left her the way she died in the post flood sediment fully assembled!-($8.4 million/Chicago Feild Museum)
*(S-Allisaurus skull/2)-  The bible teaches us in Genesis 1:29-30 that in original creation, ALL animals (including people) were commanded to be vegetarians, so they would not devour each other........and there was no such thing as death before man sinned in the garden.......SO NO FOSSIL FOUND ON EARTH IS OLDER THAN THE TIME OF ADAM AND EVE!!!

(3)-DID THE DINOSAURS EVOLVE?-(No!)

*(S-apatasuarus)-  7 times in Genesis chapter one, the bible tells us that "God saw all that he created, and behold it was very good"!  *Because of this, we know that God made the TREES, FISH, PLANETS, LIGHTS, DIRT,  DINOSAURS....ALL things 100% right the first time, with NO NEED TO ADAPT or EVOLVE!  An AMEOBA didn't crawl out of the ocean, sprout arms to become a land mammal.....God word states that the SEA CREATURES WERE MADE FIRST....then the LAND ANIMALS!

(4)-WHY DO WE FIND ONLY FOSSILS?

*(S-Fish FossilDino NP)-  Genesis 6:12 claims that "ALL FLESH HAD CORRUPTED HIS WAY UPON THE EARTH".  The animals and the people were killing & devouring each other....so in verse 13, God said he would destroy ALL FLESH!-(which would include the dinosaurs).....and he accomplished this by sending a GREAT WORLDWIDE FLOOD!-(not a localized!)
*(S-bird)-
 We are fascinated by dinosaurs; but the people of Noah's day would see nothing spectacular about them because they were the common everyday animals, and not the rare and extinct fossils we find today!  

*(S-T-rex)-  90% of dinosaur fossils are the result of a sudden world-wide disaster....the other 10% that were the result of reproduction after the flood went on to live a short time before becoming extinct.....even this, the scientist will not dispute!  *If it was not the GREAT FLOOD, then how did the fish get deposited on mtn tops, and land mammals get tilled 1000's of feet beneath the earth's crust? Our coal and petroleum deposits are the result of a mass burial of animals and forests at the SAME TIME!!!  
*(S-Grand Canyon)-
The Grand Canyon is so deep, and cavitated with fossils... likely because of the great drainage that occured as the waters of the flood receeded from the earth. The bones found from Canada to Arizona are mostly jumbled and mixed (fish and dinosaurs together) in mass graveyards along high mountainsides...the layered fossils are possibly from the post-flood rains over the centuries.
*(S-Flood debris jumbled)-  A Flood always deposits a torn mixture of things on the banks of the drainage area.
*(S-Dino NP)-comparrision.....IF the dinosaurs were not buried instantly in mud they would have ROTTED or have been EATEN!  Also, Large ammounts of water are needed to fossilize anything!

(5)-HOW WOULD DINOSAURS FIT IN NOAH'S ARK?

*(S-Ark animals/watermark)-
First of all, I know they got on the ark because the flood killed the rest of them!  Since they were on earth when Noah got on the boat, then 2 of each kind got on the Ark......if youre wondering how Noah co-ersed T-rex to get on board remember that God commanded them to come to Noah!-(Genesis 7:15-16.."they went in unto him into the ark").  Plus, a tiger or alligator would be just as vicious as any dinosaur would!
*(S-tiny cartoon)-
Also keep in mind that there are only 50 types of dinosaur fossils found today, and most are only the size of a horse.

*(S-egg/feathers/hammer-head)-  Several things we have learned from the dinosaurs' fossilized remains:
(a)....they came from EGGS-(even the biggest ones began as a 20" long baby lizard!)  God wouldn't call and old mature beast into the boat...only very young healthy infants.....(no record of reproduction on the ark/what went on came off!)
(b)...*Some dinosaurs had feathers (7 of each clean bird on the ark)
(c)...*Some had odd defense machanisms built in for protection!

(6)-WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS?-(Flood & Extinction)

*(S-Ark after)-
In the year 1800, 20 wild buffalo's were killed in a single day along fourth creek; only 3 miles from my house!-(are you getting the picture?)
*(S-Mammoths)-
Scientists do not understand how a few pre-historic creatures made it up until a few thousand years ago, while the rest totally disappeared---the answer IS extinction!
*(S-Mammoth dig/3 slides)-*explain
*(S-Condor #23)-*explain
*(S-Prehistoric Bear)-*explain

(7)-DID INDIANS IN AMERICA EVER SEE DINOSAURS?
							(Possibly?)
*(S-Wapatki NP/wait!!!)-
How many of you have heard of the DRAGONS of Mediveil times?  If all that wev'e read is a myth and folklore, then why does a dragon always look like a dinosaur?  In mediveil times no one had ever dug up a dinosaur to know what it looked like!  They drew these creatures all over the world in art-form and recorded encounters in books!   *Some were said to be "fire-breathing"!-(waputki dragon) 
*(S-Bombardier Beetle fire 300F!)-it's already in nature!
"Leviathan", (the sea creature mentioned in Job 41) is said by God himself to be a fire-breathing animal that he created alongside man!-(read v.18-21)
Many of the fossilized dinosaurs found today have unexplained chambers in their head that held fluids for some reason!

(8)-WILL WE EVER FIND A LIVING DINOSAUR TODAY?-(No)

*(S-Allisaurus)-
People have dreams of finding the "lock-ness monster" or discovering a meat-eating Allisaurus in the amazon jungle.....but odds are that none of the 80 foot giants will ever return in this life!  However, China claims to have found a decaying PLEISEASAUR off their coasts a few years back....don't know if it's true, but they made a national postage stamp of one to commemorate the find!
*(S-Squid finds 2)-*explain

(9)-WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM DINOSAURS?

*(S-Palentologists learning)-
*(S-insects in amber)-
*(S-scripture on fossil paper)-
*(S-bones)-
*When we see fossils (like this) we can be reminded that DEATH was not a part of original creation.

*We can also learn that the God who made the dinosaurs also was the JUDGE of what he created!  According to 2 Peter 3:10, God will again judge the world....this time with FIRE instead of WATER; then just as Noah stepped out of the ark into a NEW WORLD, so will he make another NEW WORLD for those who BELIEVE!
*(S-T-rex's)-
*Also, remember that those who perished in the flood never saw the new world that Noah witnessed!  The fact that LIVING ANIMALS were "intombed" in a 475 ft casket-shaped boat, only later to come out of the TOP of it ALIVE, is in a type "The story of RESURRECTION!"   Noah and the animals had entered into the boat's side by faith....and God shut them in-----
*(S-Trilobite)-
The all-important question is, are you safe, will you survive the firey judgement that is to come on this SAME earth?  As in Noah's day, the only way to be saved is to BELIEVE?