THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT
RETROGRADES OF SATURN
Completion of the 2nd Sign of Revelation 12?
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org for online PDF illustrations in Chart section
‘Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.’ – Revelation 12:3-4
The purpose of this study is to depict the retrogrades of Saturn that to some could have possibly been the astronomical equivalency to what the ‘Red Dragon’ portion of the Revelation 12 Sign depicted. There was and is some controversy as to where the ‘Red Dragon’ was in reference to the other planetary alignments. This included the Venus-Mars-Mercury lineup when the Sun and the Moon appeared in Virgo on September 23, 2017. Many speculated that the ‘Red Dragon’ was Hydra that is below the Ecliptic but adjacent to Leo and Virgo. Other believed it was Draco near the center of the Cosmos. Others believed it was Serpens as it is directly in front of Virgo but 1 Sign removed, that being Libra. The Revelation 12 Sign is limited in scope but some are stretching its significance in scope.
The question of the 2nd Sign of the Red Dragon became an issue especially with those that tried to debunk the Revelation 12 Sign phenomenon to have coincided with the Rapture event. What many may not have realized is that as Jupiter was going into retrograde in Virgo, so was Saturn in Ophiuchus. It is understood that most of the planets have a measure of retrogrades dependent on their orbits. However, if one is suggesting that the Revelation 12 Sign is being fulfilled astronomically, then it demands an astronomical equivalency with regard to the Red Dragon 2nd Sign. The 2nd Sign of the Red Dragon cannot be spiritualized away and left to conjecture. It could be the case that the 2nd Sign is yet to occur but no real determinate explanation has been provided.
Some have proposed that Saturn being in Ophiuchus was and is the 2nd Sign as some ancient rendition of the Zodiac depicts the ‘Red Dragon’. In some illustrations, the Mazzaroth had Ophiuchus next to Scorpio, which was inclusive of Libra that construed the ‘Dragon’ figure. With such a consideration, the astronomical equivalency of the missing ‘Red Dragon’ could have been or is Saturn in Ophiuchus as most focused on the Leo-Virgo constellations. The conjecture is that the 2nd Sign, astronomically has Saturn esoterically associated with the ‘Planet of Satan’ in opposition to Jupiter, that being inferred to by mystic Jews as the ‘Planet of the Messiah’. As the proponents of the Revelation 12 Rapture scrambled to find an alternative date and explanation of why the Rapture of the Church Body did not occur as expected, one has to interject some perspective about the ‘Red Dragon’ to dispel some misinformation or perhaps misunderstanding that has led to the discrediting of the study of Biblical Astronomy.
Some of the Revelation 12 Sign Rapture proponents theorized that Ophiuchus was and is thus the Angel Michael that is wrestling with the Serpens or ‘Dragon’ and is perhaps the missing link or component to complete the ‘vision’ of what the Apostle John was given to see. However, according to EW Bullinger and James Seiss, Ophiuchus is not ‘Michael’; only if one is a Jehovah Witness perhaps. It is the typology of Jesus wrestling with the Serpent of Old, the Dragon, Lucifer, etc. This Shining Serpent seeks the Crown or the Kingdom, as does Lucifer. This quadrant of the constellations is a picture of Genesis 3:15 in that Jesus, the Seed of the Woman, (Revelation 12) would bruise the head of the ‘Enemy’, Scorpio as the Star Aldebaran is red signifying a mortal wound.
Yet this Enemy, Satan by way of the stinger of Scorpio has mortally stung the heel of Christ. The Arch Angle Michael is not the one that was crucified to die for the sins of the human race. However, there is still some possible relevance to the Revelation 12 Sign being linked to Saturn as it just finished its retrograde and is under the foot by Ophiuchus. Perhaps there is as timing gap or lag time that is signifying that it is the LORD Jesus that has been restraining the work of the ‘Dragon’ and so on. However, it should also be noted that the Signs of the Zodiac have an esoteric antithesis thanks to the corruption and usurping work of Lucifer to control their narrative.
As noted in other studies, this Revelation 12 Sign and the return of the Christ Stars at this point and time could actually be heralding the coming of the AntiChrist. The Revelation 12 Sign is portraying a ‘Rapture’ and it could be the ‘Sign’ that as Lucifer’s AntiChrist is to be ‘born’ as in a debut, it will coincide with the Rapture of the Church. In the Ophiuchus depiction of Genesis 3:15, it is the Serpent of Old, the Dragon that upholds Ophiuchus, the coming AntiChrist that he will give life and power to as described will occur in the book of Revelation. Therefore, it could be the case of Lucifer mimicking the Christ Stars, birthing, etc., as it was for Jesus Christ. It is a reversal and perversion of the Gospel witness of the Stars in that Saturn, as Lucifer is Cronos that is given ‘time’ and is said to change time.
On another level, the Red Dragon is pretty specific in it description of having 7 ‘heads’, and so on which may not just be the ‘Stars’ attributed to here. For this reason, some have spiritualized a Beast System typology and time template of 1260 years and so forth. Others however attribute this specific depiction with the coming of Planet X even. This is when based on John’s depiction of Wormwood coming from the 2nd Sun system. This 2nd Sun System also referred to as Nemesis is purported to have 7 satellites or planets converges at the point of the literal fulfillment of the Revelation 12 Sign mid-Tribulation. It appears that such an event will be what the LORD will be using to execute all those catastrophic judgments upon the Earth/world.
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