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Summary
- The Bible does not say what it means to dream of a dragon, and it gives no list of dream meanings.
- Catholic and Orthodox Bibles record a dream with dragons in it: Mordecai’s, in the Greek additions to Esther.
- In that dream one of the two great dragons was Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and the other was Mordecai himself, the faithful man God used to save them.
- Daniel dreamed of four great beasts from the sea, and John saw a great red dragon in a vision, and in both cases the book itself tells them what they saw.
- Scripture never says that a dragon dream is an attack from the devil, but it does say the devil is beaten: “they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.”
- After a frightening dream we can do what Mordecai and Daniel did: keep it before God, test it by his word, and talk it over with someone we trust instead of a dream book.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Bible text: King James Version, passages quoted from Genesis 1:21; Job 7:12–14; 38:1; 42:5; Psalm 148:7; Isaiah 8:19–20; Daniel 7:1, 3, 7, 15–17, 28; 1 John 3:8; Revelation 12:3, 9, 11, via BibleGateway. Esther 10:4–7 and 11:5–12 from the Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 American edition), via BibleGateway.
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Esther: Introduction, New American Bible, Revised Edition.
- Joel J. Miller, “Should Christians read the Book of Esther?”, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Ancient Faith Ministries, 10 June 2013.
- Church of England, Articles of Religion (the Thirty-nine Articles), Article VI.
- Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul, chapter 47, trans. Peter Holmes, Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 3 (1885).
- John Chapman, “Tertullian”, Catholic Encyclopedia vol. 14 (1912).
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