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| Though God gave man dominion over all living things, God is still sovereign over His creatures. He uses them to do His will for judgment/discipline. | ||||
| His power over them is seen in this chart. | ||||
| FAMILY | REFERENCE | CREATURE | NATURE OF SOVEREIGNTY | |
| REPTILE | EXODUS 4:3 | SERPENT | Made a rod a serpent - Back to rod | |
| REPTILE | EXODUS 8:6 | FROG | Covered only Egypt with frogs | |
| REPTILE | NUMBERS 21:6 | FIERY SERPENTS | Lord sent fiery serpents among the people | |
| REPTILE | ACTS 28:3-6 | VIPER | Caused poisonous snake not to hurt Paul | |
| FISH | JONAH 1:17 | GIANT FISH | Caused fish to swallow Jonah - Kept down 3 days and dropped him off at the right place | |
| FISH | MATTHEW 17:27 | FISH | Taxes in the fish's mouth | |
| FISH | LUKE 5:5,6 | FISH | Caused great catch after failure | |
| FISH | JOHN 21:2-6 | FISH | Directed fish to right side of the boat | |
| INSECT | EXODUS 8:17 | LICE | Plague only on the Egyptians | |
| INSECT | EXODUS 8:22 | FLIES | Plague only on the Egyptians | |
| INSECT | EXODUS 10:13 | LOCUSTS | Plague only on the Egyptians | |
| INSECT | JONAH 4:7 | WORMS | Ate Gourd of Jonah's shelter - withered it | |
| INSECT | ACTS 12:21-23 | WORMS | Herod was eaten of them | |
| BIRDS | EXODUS 16:13 | QUAIL | Quail came from the Sea and flew low so the people could gather them | |
| BIRDS | 1 KINGS 17:6 | RAVENS * | Fed Elijah beside the brook every day | |
| BIRD | MATTHEW 26:74,75 | COCK # | Crowed in the night to fulfill Jesus' warning to Peter | |
| ANIMAL | GENESIS 22:13 | RAM | God had the ram caught by his horns in the thicket at the right time, right place | |
| ANIMAL | NUMBERS 22:28 | ASS | Angel blocked Ass - It spoke to Baalam | |
| ANIMAL | ZECHARIAH 9:9/MATTHEW 21:7 | ASS/COLT | Jesus rode an unbroken animal | |
| ANIMAL | I KINGS 13:24-28 | ASS | It stood and did not run off from the lion as lion killed his master | |
| ANIMAL | I KINGS 13:24-28 | LION | Did not eat his prey or run off after his slaying the prophet nor the ass that stood there | |
| ANIMAL | DANIEL 6:22 | LION | Shut their mouths so they did not kill Daniel | |
| ANIMAL | MARK 5:13 | SWINE | 2,000 pigs ran headlong into the Sea and drowned | |
| ANIMAL | II KINGS 2:24 | SHE-BEAR's | The two she-bears tore 42 young people | |
| ANIMAL | II KINGS 9:36 | DOGS | Caused them to eat Jezebel to fulfill prophecy of Elijah I Kings 21:23 | |
| ANIMAL | EXODUS 9 | CATTLE | Caused only Egyptian cattle to die of murrain | |
| ANIMAL | 1 SAMUEL 6:7-12 | COW/CALF | Caused cows to leave calves and go straight to the border | |
| * May have been Arab merchants as the word RAVEN can be translated Arabians, Merchants, People of Orbo. See Clarke, Jerome, Arabic Version. | ||||
| # May have been a trumpet at the changing of the guards rather than a cock. George L. Faull, 2002 | ||||