Biblical, Mythical and Heraldic Beasts:

The Dragon

Traditionally the Dragon is a symbol of evil and commentators of the Bible have usually interpreted the Dragon as meaning Satan.

In Britain however the Dragon, which was introduced as a heraldic symbol by the Romans, has many other meanings. It is a widespread British heraldic symbol which often appears in Revelation, chapter 12 and 13 giving us hints where to look for fulfilment of these predictions. We can understand these chapters by asking ourselves which of these dragons fits best. Some verses even make sense with different dragons giving them a double meaning:

In chapter 12 we find the Red Dragon, the symbol of Wales and the Prince of Wales.
In chapter 12, verse 15 and in chapter 13 we can understand the Dragon as the heraldic symbol of the "City of London": Banks, merchants and other businesses. They are among the main responsible today for the global distribution of wealth causing poverty, misery and starvation in "3^rd World countries". The bankers make these countries pay high interests on their debt, and the merchants manipulate the prices of the raw materials they export.
Within the "City of London" (The Dragon) we also find the British Press, a large part of which causes a lot of damage through hateful propaganda, printing lies and invading people's privacy.
In England before the Norman Conquest, the dragon was chief among the royal ensigns in war, having been instituted as such by Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur. The Golden Dragon was the heraldic symbol of the English king Harold Godwin. In 1066 he was killed with a fatal wound in his head in the Battle of Hastings near the shore of the sea. Chapter 13 can thus be understood as describing the history of Britain and world history from 1066 until today.
The name Sir Francis Drake is also derived from "draco", the Latin word for dragon, and Drake was one of the main founders of the British Empire.

The dragon thus symbolizes the foundation of the power of the British State in the past and the worldwide Anglo-American "Western" Culture dominated by business today. This cultural aspect of the dragon symbol is made clear in chapter 12, where it has the crowns on its heads symbolizing thinking while the lion has them on its horns symbolizing political power.

In the words of Revelation 13:2:

The dragon gave the beast (the Lion of England symbolizing the British State since the Normans) his power and his throne and great authority.

And Rev 13:4:

People worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast (The British State), and they also worshipped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

The sign of London is a dragon with "Domine dirige nos" (O Lord guide us) written underneath. Londoners make the Dragon a god who shall guide them, a blasphemy that was predicted in the Apocrypha of the Old Testament: the story about Daniel and the "Babylonians" worshipping the Dragon. This story and the story about Susanna were added to the Bible about 1000 years after the prophet Daniel's death.

The two stories are therefore no historical accounts and can also be understood as prophetic visions. If you compare these two stories to Revelation chapter 12, you will find surprising parallels.

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The Lion

The Sign of Britain, the Jews and our Western Civilization

From the human point of view a lion is a very destructive animal. This is why the ancient Egyptians had the lion-headed Sun-goddess "S(ekhm)et", who symbolized the destructive power of the element of fire. This force is equivalent to the Devil, called "Set". In the fourteenth century BC, the so-called "thirteen fatal years", under Pharaoh Akhnaton the Egyptians increased their worship of Sekhmet along with the worship of the Sun god Aton. Many of her statues from this time can now be seen in the British Museum.

In those days before the Exodus, the Jews stayed in Egypt and some of them became acquainted with Egyptian magic arts. Today the close connection of Jewish culture to occultism still shows by the frequent use of Hebrew words and letters in occult literature. This movement within Judaism became predominant after King Solomon up to the present day. They adopted the Lion of Judah as their symbol. Later, when the Jews had emigrated to Europe, we can find the heraldic Lion with the Normans, in England, Bavaria and many other parts of Europe even though lions had never lived there. People adopted the name Leo (Latin for lion), Lionheart, Leonard, Leon, Lionel, etc.

There are many quotations in the Bible, especially the Old Testament branding the Lion as the symbol of godless Jews turning away from the teachings of their prophets:

Ezekiel, chapter 19 sees the fact that the princes of Israel have turned into "Lions" as the root of all the historical catastrophes the Jews had to suffer.
In Micah 5:8 ff. the remnant of Jacob (= the Jews) will be among the nations behaving brutally like lions and therefore they will be punished.
Jeremiah 51:38 predicts that the evil people of "Babylon" all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs, with the result that God will punish them by letting the sea rise over "Babylon". There are many scientists and prophets who have recently predicted that large parts of the USA and of Britain, particularly the South, will disappear into the sea in a couple of years.
In Revelation 5:5 the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David has won. He opens the scroll and its seven seals. These seals are then opened by the fatally wounded Lamb representing the murder of Jesus and other prophets. Six of the seven seals are the present evils humanity has to suffer from: wars, destruction, and exploitation during employment, starvation, epidemics and natural disasters. They are God's punishment for this most outrageous murder in Jewish history and the failure to put the teachings of Jesus into practice. The first seal is the coming of "The Rider on the White Horse" (Rev. 6:2 and 19:11), the conqueror of the kingdom of God. The prophet makes the point that these things happen, because most Jews and indeed the whole world have abandoned the religious and moral principles of God. They have turned into Lions who now devour other people and destroy the earth after killing Jesus who was an outstanding Jewish prophet. And the so-called Christians are also far from following his morals and principles.

Theologians have often equated Jesus with the Lion of Judah and there have even been 13 popes by the name of Leo. Apparently, they have missed or deliberately ignored the negative meaning of the lion symbol. However, there is also some sinister consistency and logic: Our destructive, greedy Western Lion Civilization increasingly contradicts the principles of Bible prophets such as Jesus. Despite all the rhetoric about Jesus being God church teachings and rituals influence people's subconscious minds against him: His murder is something useful to be glad about, because it takes away your sins. No wonder people pretend to drink his blood like vampires, eat his flesh like cannibals and call the anniversary of his cruel, politically motivated murder "Good-Friday".