2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
For every bad dragon, there are two good ones. We are told that one out of every three angels followed Satan in his fall from grace (Rev. 12:4-9). That means that two out of every three remained in their God-assigned stations. From these posts they still intercede, when ordered by God, on behalf of His saints against the foul and fallen minority, those benighted supernovae, the bad dragons.
Hebrews 1:13-14
To which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
The preponderance of angels are on the side of the saints. And if those running on fumes are ferocious, how much more so those still connected and daily renewed by their source of strength? If bad dragons are a bad business, how much better are good dragons a boon.
Dragons are real, but they are outnumbered and outgunned. They are more than any man could handle, but there are no match for the majority of dragons who remain on our side by remaining what God made them.
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman a la G.K. Chesterton who actually said...
"Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." — G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
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