"Biblical Dragons" - The Great Dragon of Babylon

There's only 12 chapters of the book of Daniel. In the 12th chapter it talks about this abomination which causes desolation. But what's interesting is that it then speaks of Daniel having to seal up this scroll which is reserved for the end times. Which got me thinking, is there an extra chapter in the book of Daniel that we just haven't found yet? I started doing my research and come to find out that there actually is a Daniel 13, just not in my Bible. There is such thing as Daniel 13 and 14. Protestant Bibles don't have these chapters in there. This is only available in a Catholic or Orthodox Bible. Now what are these mysterious chapters all about? Well these two books are actually one about these lying judges of Israel. But Daniel 14 talks about this false idol called Bel and a great dragon in Babylon. Now what's really important to note here is that these two books were actually Greek additions to the Bible. Daniel 13 and 14 are not actually found in the original Hebrew Bible. They were added on later by the Greeks. That doesn't stop me from investigating it. See today my question is, are there dragons in the Bible? Or rather, are dragons biblical? Okay well let's actually read the story first. It's this whole story about the Babylonians who worshipped this idol called Bel. And the people believed that this idol, this statue, would eat the offerings, the bread, the wine that its believers gave to him. The king tries to convince Daniel that this idol is a real living statue. So he offers a bunch of bread and wine and he says, look tomorrow all of this food and wine is going to be gone because this idol will have simply eaten it. Of course Daniel won't believe any of it. Instead what he does is he sprinkles a whole bunch of ash on the ground and says, okay let's see tomorrow or whenever if the food is really gone and if this idol really ate the food that you offered it to him. Then the next day comes around and they enter this temple where the statue is. And to their surprise, all the food is gone. Of course this gets to the king's head and he says, you see this idol is real and living and he ate our sacrifices. But right as the king's head was getting all puffed up, Daniel notices that on the ground, on top of the ashes that he spread everywhere in that temple, were footsteps. Footsteps of grown men, women, children. It obviously appeared as if people had taken the offerings and the sacrifices and just eaten it for themselves before scurrying away. In order to deceive people into thinking that this idol ate the sacrifices. Now when the king sees this, he's not happy and he orders for all the priests of Bel to be killed. But after he does that, he brings Daniel to this other room. The king brings Daniel to this second place where he says, behold look at the great dragon of Babylon. A seemingly real, living, breathing dragon. You see in this part of the story, there is no indication that this dragon is a statue or an idol or anything other than a real life, living, breathing dragon. But Daniel is still unfazed. He looks at it and says, no dear king, this is still a false god. What he does next is absolutely super confusing. But nonetheless, that's what it says. Daniel bakes a bunch of these cakes. He bakes a bunch of these cakes and then he feeds it to this dragon. So this dragon can actually eat. But at the very end of this story, the dragon simply blows up from the cakes that Daniel fed to him. So Daniel says to the king, look behold your god. What is going on here? Now once again, this is not available in the protestant bible. It is available in the sephir. So if you don't know what this is, it is a bible that also includes the apocrypha as well as the canonical bible. All the different stories that were going on in that time. But once again, it's important to note that this was a greek edition. But it kind of got me thinking. This isn't really the first time that we hear about a dragon in the bible. See there's actually a couple other monster type beings that are mentioned. We hear about this leviathan, this underwater sea serpent type creature. Yet it gives us no indication that it is a metaphor. Of course there's also the nephilim, the giants of old in the bible, who were half human and half angel. So it does actually seem like there are secondary beings mentioned in the canonical bible. There seems to be this strange and confusing side of this that actually includes these mythical beings. See there's this really interesting theory that has absolutely captivated me recently. And it's this idea that dragons, leviathan, all of these creatures are actually part of god's kingdom. But just hold on a sec. You see in the chinese zodiac, they have this diagram that shows you all these animals and it represents these different types of people. Every single animal on this list is real. Every single animal on this list actually exists today except for the dragon. Now why would they do this? Of course we could speculate all day long without any actual answers. But in my opinion adding a false fake mythical animal to a bunch of real animals kind of ruins the thing don't you think? It takes away the authenticity. And on top of that there are other animals that exist. I mean they could have used any other animal besides the dragon. So why did they include the dragon? This is where it gets really mysterious. Because as I did some more research I discovered that the dragon actually has a bunch of different classifications. A different species of the same thing. Which again in my opinion is quite strange especially for a mythical creature. There are multiple types of dragon. One is called the drake. Another one is the basilisk or the wyvern if i'm not mistaking. There's air dragons, albino dragons, but also serpents. Serpents are a type of dragon. See to me this is where it gets very very interesting. Because Adam and Eve in the garden were deceived by a serpent who was then cursed to live on his belly for the rest of its life. Almost as if this serpent had limbs or some kind of other body part which was then taken away from it. See in Revelation it speaks of this dragon which sweeps away the stars of heaven and he is called that serpent of old. Even in the book of Job once again it speaks of this leviathan which for a lack of a better word would be a water dragon or a sea serpent creature. Now of course this all sounds crazy and I'm not telling you to believe in the mythical dragons. That's not what I'm telling you to do at all. But there is definitely another way to look at this. A type of paradigm shift that if you can see it I think it's definitely worth considering. Of course I don't know if any of this is 100% true. So we should always take the utmost caution when we go over these topics. I think we all know about this now. But what I do know for sure is that there is actually in reality this great mystery of these giant reptilian lizard like creatures which once ruled the world and now are hidden under layers and layers and layers of dirt. Ladies and gentlemen this is the dinosaur. The word dinosaur actually was coined in 1842. The first dinosaurs that were ever discovered were around the 1800s. But what's crazy it's absolutely crazy is that dinosaurs were actually called dragons all the way up until the 1800s as well. See in ancient China when they literally found dinosaur bones they would mistakenly call them dragons when today we call them dinosaurs. See when they finally unearthed these great beings they had no other choice but say that this is an authentic real life dragon skeleton which to me is absolutely amazing. I mean we have this great myth of dragons we see them in paintings and stories yet today we are almost blinded to the fact that we do find massive skeletons massive bones of these dragon like beings. We assume that these stories and paintings of dragons are just considered myth but if we simply change our view to define dragons to be dinosaurs then all of a sudden it just makes sense. But I will admit this does open up a Pandora's box of thinking. Now the very crux to all of this is one that I've actually am still kind of researching myself but it really seems like we don't actually know what dinosaurs looked like. There's this thing called shrink wrapping. It's a way of drawing dinosaurs by simply kind of stretching skin over all the bones and then kind of saying that this is what a dinosaur is. These bones would be drawn with very thin skin stretched tightly over all the bones and muscles and this style became popular in the 1970s but it's still used today. The problem is it makes for some intuitively some seemingly wrong depictions of dinosaurs. You see if you took the skeleton of a monkey or a dog or a horse and you simply stretched skin right on top of it. Imagine you didn't add ears you didn't add like lips and you just drew this thing skin and bones. Well funnily enough this is actually what you'd get. You'd get this horrible strange looking creature when really it's just a dog once again. Do we really know what these beings look like? I'm not saying that you should believe in the mythical dragon that's not what I'm saying. I'm rather asking you if the view of the ancient world that we have today is rather a bad translation of what it actually was. What if all these myths and legends can actually come to life and be reality simply through a paradigm shift like equating the great mythical dragon with the very real and mysterious dinosaur?