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Question:
Being a Christian, I understand that "dragon" or "serpent" often depicts Satan from a biblical perspective.I was recently asked by a mainland Chinese who is interested in Christianity but cannot comprehend why "dragon" is often depicted as evil in the Bible whereas the Chinese race has always embraced the dragon as a symbol of wealth & prosperity & all things the Chinese consider good.
Your opinion & words of wisdom, please
My reply:
Hi,
Hebrew and Asian cultures are very different.
You are correct however. In the Bible the dragon, Leviathan, is the seen as the embodiment of all evil, as Satan, the dragon that ascends from and will one day return to the Pit. In China, India, Japan and other Asian cultures, as well as in Wales, Scotland and other traditions of the Misty Isles, dragons are regarded as protectors and bringers of good fortune.
If you look into the early European and British tales of dragon slaying you will find that it is generally the followers of "the New Religion" (i.e. Nicene Christianity and its solar knights) slaying the dragons, while the followers of "the Old Religion" sought to protect them, often in "caves" (which represent the mind or holding onto the ancient ways in secret ).
These tales are often presented in Christian accounts (as the victors write the histories of course) as "evil Pagans" and "Heathens" opposing the "God of Light" and his Church from the "Satanic dragons of Darkness." As the Church established its power as the ruling authority dragons – along with Pagans and Heathens (i.e. nature worshipers and common people of the heaths) who refused to convert to Constantine's new religion – were vilified and cast off into the "Night." But, the Church warned, we must always beware lest the dragons (i.e. the old religions) be found lurking in the darkness of the mind (the "cave").
Before Christian/Church globalization, the earth's diverse cultures were more isolated. A series of independent ethnic and religious paradigms existed with their own rich cultures and heritages. In such a world diversity abounded and the imagination and spirit were free to soar with the dragons. As the world become a smaller, more interconnected place in which to live however the more powerful cultures came to dominate and they established/enforced their own paradigms and symbolism within which society would abide. All who refused to submit to the Church faced the courts of the "Holy Inquisition" and similar persecutions. These lost cultures, like the dragons themselves, sojourned no more – or else they continued in secret. This secrecy gave rise to the globalist cabals of Merovingian Luciferianism and, to that degree, the dragons really did become symbols of evil.
Western culture, formerly Christian based, has dominated much of the planet for the last 1800 years. Today it is culturally redefining the Asian dragon paradigms through globalization just as it did the rich pre-Christian Western traditions. In much of the East the dragon is now coming to be viewed as a symbol of evil as a result. In my opinion this is tragic but not surprising considering the normal flow of history. Most Europeans succumbed to this transition of symbolism long ago.
Time goes on however and the only constant is change. Western culture at large is now rejecting the Christian paradigms and embracing Secular Humanism. This significant change is gradually altering the accepted globalist world views. As Christianity fades away (Revelation 3:14-19) the western dragon imagery appears to be in transition. The dragon seems to be transforming back into a creature of inspiration and light. While dragon lovers may rejoice at this, the transition may be deceptive! With the emergence of the new global religion and governance the dragon is now taking on the characteristics described in the Book of the Revelation:Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great sign in the heavens, a woman [People Israel] clothed with the sun [Avraham avinu] , and the moon [Sarah] was under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars [the Twelve Houses of Israel] on her head,The globalist dragon, even now, is seeking to genocide the Jewish people however as Rebbe Y'shua ben Miryam predicted:
12:2 and she, being with child [the Messianic kingdom] cries, being in travail, straining to be delivered.
12:3 And another sign was seen in the heavens. And behold a great red dragon [Lucifer], having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads!
12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven [the celestial rebels], and cast them onto the earth [i.e. a strong increase in demonic activity around the globe]. And the dragon stood before the woman being about to bear, so that when she bears he might devour her child....
Matthew 24:21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.
24:22 And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake [i.e. to rescue the Jewish people], those days shall be shortened.
The time has come to withstand the Great Merovingian Dragon.
~ Rabbi Yochanan Levine
http://yeshivabethhashem.org
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