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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – July 22

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Darby & Scofield’s Pre-Trib Rapture,

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Part 7:

“The Heretical False-Teaching of a 2nd Chance”

To read Part 1, Click here… “January 25th (The Pre-Trib Rapture, Part 1)”

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“Behold, I show you a mystery;

We shall not all sleep,

but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,

at the last trump:

for the trumpet shall sound,

and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,

and we shall be changed…

and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

1st Corinthians 15:51, 52 & 1st Thessalonians 4:17

Angel with trumpet – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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Oh yes, this has always been a fallen world!

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Ever since mankind’s very first act of disobedience, sin and sorrow have plagued this planet-in-rebellion! And for millenniums, life on this ball-spinning-in-space has continued to stumble & fumble along.

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Gustave Dore – Adam And Eve Driven Out Of Eden – www.creationism.org-public-domain

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“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

Matthew 24:12

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But now, this troubled world is beginning to unravel so rapidly, that God’s deceived people are starting to question whether all this mayhem and trouble are actually the beginning events of that great afore-promised “Time of Trouble”!

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“Why is the world getting so bad, so tragic, so crazy-evil, and all so rapidly?!”, is the cry silently uttered from many confounded souls!

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Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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THE SO-CALLED PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

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Historical records give Cyrus I. Scofield credit for popularizing this false doctrine of the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”, first invented by another 19th-century false Bible teacher, one John Darby of The Plymouth Brethren denomination.

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But prior to the 1800’s, it was almost universally accepted that Scripture one speaks of one return of Christ.

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And both these men were inspired by the “Futurist” doctrine of a 16th-Century Jesuit theologian, Francisco Ribera, whose teachings combated the Christian-community’s widely held teaching that the authoritarian European papal religious system was the literal fulfillment of Revelation 13’s afore-promised Antichrist. 

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John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

1886 Francisco de Ribera Wikipedia – the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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…they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”

2nd Peter 3:16

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What Scofield and Darby did, was to presumptuously take the two words from 1st Thessalonian 4:17, the words, “caught up”, and their Greek counterpart, “harpazo”, and changed “harpazo” into its Latin counterpart, “ripere”, (taken from an obscure Catholic Latin Bible), which is the Latin root for another English word, “rapture”, which, originally, was most commonly defined as being “in a state of euphoria”. Then, they morphed “caught up”, a verb into a proper name, “The Rapture”.

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Thus, by such heretical wrestling with Scripture, Scofield/Darby then began to promote the idea that Christ would “rapture” His Church out of the world, just prior to the prophecies of Revelation being fulfilled.

John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation”

Hebrews 9:28

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And so, by such twisting of Scripture, Scofield/Darby now invented TWO second “Coming(s) of the Lord”, instead of the Biblical pronouncement of only one! And thus was coined the unbiblical name, “The Pretribulation Rapture”, and the second return, using the God-given name for the event, “The Coming of the Lord” on “the last day”.

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Consequently, the Christian world was now being taught that there were, not one, but TWO separate returns of Christ! And if you missed out on the Christ’s first return, you now would have a second chance!

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Very clever…and yet, very devilish!

John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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Now, just why is it important to know if there ONE Second Coming or TWO Second Comings? Or rather, a Second and a Third Coming of Christ?

Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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THE DARBY/SCOFIELD DECEPTION 

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But history records reveal, that in the centuries prior to John Darby, practically the entire church-world only taught one return of Christ, on the “last day”. As a matter of fact, for those who have read the Bible, not already indoctrinated into the “Pre-Trib Rapture” ideology, will only find references to one return. In other words, it took some major wrestling with Scripture to come up with this convoluted church-doctrine!

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But Satan, knowing that two returns and a second chance would greatly disarm God’s naive people, cleverly led Darby and Scofield to discover those certain verses which could be used to support two returns. 

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John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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Don’t Worry! You Can Always Catch the Second Train Out of Here!

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One thing is for sure! There are many who have taken a relaxed attitude, simply because they have been deceived by Darby & Scofield’s heresy of a so-called “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”, believing that they will be taken up PRIOR to the Great Tribulation!

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To show just how absurd this whole notion of, not only the 2nd Return, but also an additional 3rd Return is, listen to this: There are some, maybe even many others, who are so deceived, that they actually are hoping to get “left behind” so that they can witness all the horrendous events of The Great Tribulation, and the coming Antichrist and his buddy, The False Prophet!

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And this morbid and absurd desire has been bolstered by a lot of intriguing and exciting movies glamorizing those who got “left behind”.

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“COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE!”

Revelation 18:1-4

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And this wrestling with Scripture, is just one more reason why God is calling His people out of “The City of Confusion”, mystery Babylon…“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4

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Yes, this entire false doctrine concerning the so-called Pre-Tribulation Rapture is just one more heresy among many, which the apostate church-world teaches.

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And this is why there is an end-time exodus occurring away from the harlot churches!

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James Tissot – The Flight of the Prisoners – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven:

and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,

and they shall see the Son of man

coming in the clouds of heaven

with power and great glory.

And He shall send His angels

WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET,

and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds,

from one end of heaven to the other.”

Matthew 24:30, 31

ABOVE PICTURE: The armor of God – theheavensdeclare.net -use by permission only

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to study my Bible for myself, and let me not be led astray by the errors which have overtaken today’s church-world…

Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Crown of Revelation 12: What Is “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble”?”, or you can also read…” June 25th (The War Nobody Prepared For!)”

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

Info & pics of constellations on this site from Wikipedia & International Astronomical Union (click here)

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THE 5 OFFICES OF ORION

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But like most of the other Signs which this website reveals, Orion too, has much more to say as he changes his position in the sky. And this Soldier in the Heavens puts on different garb, as he presents the five awesome aspects of his various offices. From ‘Orion the Soldier’, and ‘Orion the Reaper’, and ‘Orion the Archer’, and ‘The Cross of Orion’, and last but certainly not least, “Orion, The Good Shepherd”. This amazing constellation presents a very complex revelation of the God’s magnificent love for a fallen planet.

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So read on and discover, “things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.” Matthew 13:35

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Orion Phenomena”

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TOMORROW…

July 23 (The Whisperer, Part 5: “The Accuser of God”)

Eve & The Whispering Serpent – Signs Of Heaven – Share-alike License

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Daily Devotional, Year 4: July 1

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World of Lies,

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Part 18:

“Escaping the City of Confusion”

TO READ PART 1, CLICK HERE…JANUARY 3 (World of Lies, Part 1: “The Femme-Fatale Firefly!”)

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“Ball of confusion

Oh yeah, that’s what the world is today!

…So, round and around and around we go

Where the world’s headed, nobody knows…

Just a ball of confusion Oh yeah,

that’s what the world is today!”

Song by The Temptations, lyrics provided by Lyricfind

File:The Temptations 1968.JPG – Wikimedia Commons

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Every now and then, a song comes along and “tells it like it is!” And this song from the 1970’s, “Ball of Confusion”, was one of those songs!

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After all, the Bible likewise calls this world, “The City of Confusion”. Isaiah 24:10

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And even though the lyrics say “Ball of confusion, Oh yeah, that’s what the world is today”, the fact is, it’s always been a world of confusion!

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From the day in which evil moved down into paradise, and took control, “confusion and every evil work” has been the order of the day (and of the entire age!) (James 3:16 for “confusion and every evil work” reference)

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Yes, there’s always been a full spectrum of philosophies, ideologies, religions, and governments, each one contradicting another: a veritable ball of confusion!…

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“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived”

2nd Timothy 3:13 

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And if the world was a “Ball of Confusion” back in the 1970’s, just look at what’s going on today!

People can’t figure out what gender they!

Men now using “the little girls’ room”!

Men allowed to play girls’ sports!

Courts allowing criminals to return to the streets!

Devastating drugs decriminalized, causing massive robberies and homelessness!

Parents given a week or so to decide if they wish to keep their newborn baby, or have it starved-to-death!

Churches having Drag Queens deliver the sermon!

The government simply printing up trillions for their ‘pet projects’, knowing that it will cause massive inflation, eventually destroying the entire economy!

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Yes, in addition to the “full spectrum of philosophies, ideologies, religions, and governments”, this world is inundated with a full spectrum of crimes and immoralities!

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And as bad as things were, back in the 70’s, they’re getting much, much worse today (not to mention all the insane laws and maxims which government and society are now foisting upon the general public!)

Unisex bathroom pictogram – Wikipedia – Public Domain

Antifa @ Protest Trump in Phoenix – 8-22-17 – Wikipedia – GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Posing with the gay drag queens – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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“Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth”

Habakkuk 1:4

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Everywhere we turn, we and our children are being indoctrinated: the Internet, television, newspapers, books, schools, billboards, radio, smart-phones, games, toy dolls, movie theaters, etc., all have become a source of indoctrination! Society is becoming increasingly aggressive in its efforts to indoctrinate us and our children!

ABOVE PICTURE: TV indoctrination – www.signsofheaven.org – not for commercial uses

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Escaping the City of Confusion

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Now having said all this, the main thrust of today’s devotional is “Escaping the City of Confusion”. And it’s not hard to see that this world is getting crazier and more chaotic and debased, by the day! A veritable “Ball of Confusion”!

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So, just how can I escape all the growing mayhem-n-madness? How can I save my children from getting swallowed up by the insanity and devolving morality of this evolving dystopian tyranny? How can we keep from getting brainwashed by this giant “re-education machine” (which this high-tech world has become)?

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Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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“Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast!”

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Listen to this end-game stratagem from Isaiah…

“Come, My people, enter thou into thy chambers,

and shut thy doors about thee:

hide thyself as it were for a little moment,

until the indignation be overpast.

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of His place

to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:

the earth also shall disclose her blood,

and shall no more cover her slain”

Isaiah 26:20, 21

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There’s only one way to escape from all this. Oh well, yes, maybe one might find some little refuge in the wilderness and live completely off-grid as long as possible.

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And yet, the only sure-fire way to deliver your family from this ensuing tyranny seemingly closing in on us from all sides, is to do as this above passage warns: “hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast”.

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“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

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So, just how can I possibly hide myself from the pandemic madness and Orwellian hellscape which this world is rapidly transforming into?

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Listen to Habakkuk’s prophecy…

“And the LORD answered me, and said,

‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,

that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time,

but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:

though it tarry, wait for it;

because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” 

Habakkuk 2:2, 3

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Here again, is the admonishment to “Run!”, when the vision begins to speak. And what vision is beginning to speak? Habakkuk’s vision of this very day in which society has become a seemingly inescapable, overwhelming totalitarian indoctrination machine, forcing its “mischievous madness” upon us and upon our children! (Ecclesiastes 10:13)

Picture – Lot Escapes – www.thebiblerevival.com offers free Bible clipart – Public Domain.

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“He will make me to walk upon mine high places!”

Habakkuk 3:19

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But where do I run?! How can I hide?!

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Listen again…“The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places!” Habakkuk 3:19

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Yes, here is the place in which we must hide? “To walk upon mine high places” is the only mountainous refuge which guarantees safety and sanctity!

ABOVE PICTURE: Most Holy Place within the heart – Signs Of Heaven

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“Thou art my hiding place; Thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah”

Psalm 32:7

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Listen again…“For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a Rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, ‘Seek ye My face’; my heart said unto thee, ‘Thy face, LORD, will I seek’.” Psalm 27:5-8

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If I am willing to allow my God to purify my heart (i.e., “mine high places”), then I have escaped to the place of refuge of God’s “hiding place”.

Hide Thyself in thy Chambers- inspired by Tornado Over Kansas by Curry

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TO READ PART 19, CLICK HERE…

July 22 (A World of Lies! Part 19: It’s a Cuttlefish World! CONTINUED: “Kiddie-World Transforms Into Groomer-World!”)

Giant Cuttlefish – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Keep me from allowing the Devil to wrap me up in his silky threads of deception! Separate me as far as possible from all ungodly influences, and give me the love for Your Word, that I might fully immerse myself in it…

Morning Prayers – Ebenezer Newman – Downard – 1860 – Wikipedia – Public Domain

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READ MORE

(TIME TO GET OUT OF DODGE! Part 2: “Time To Get Out Of Our Schools!”), or you can also read…April 27 (“Habakkuk Says “RUN!” Part 22: “Habakkuk Says ‘RUN’ From Schools!”)

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

Info & pics of constellations on this site from Wikipedia & International Astronomical Union (click here)

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LOCATING THE DRAGON

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THE DRAGON of REVELATION 12 CONSTELLATION . The Dragon Constellation can be located by finding Orion in winter months. The Dragon is to Orion’s left, and the Dragon’s mouth is right next to Orion’s shield. This Dragon’s mouth is the V-like constellation The Hyades Cluster, which is the very same constellation that comprises the head of Taurus the Bull. In other words, Hyades is also known as the head of Taurus the Bull. And Hyades is the mouth of this Dragon.

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The tip of the Dragon’s tail is composed of that star-cluster known as The Pleiades. The Pleiades is actually in the shape of a lion’s furry tassel tip of his tail. The sketch below shows this Pleiades as the tail tip.

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Now with aid of a dark starry night, you may begin to connect this mouth and the tail with a very long body in an oval shape. The front and back legs are very well-defined with stars. The front legs are made partially of Taurus. The back legs and rear fin are made of the Cetus Constellation. But the long oval-shaped body has relatively few stars, but can been seen, howbeit with a dark starry night. The four stars of the front fins are made partially of Taurus. This Dragon constellation appears in the eastern horizon about mid-summer in the pre-dawn hours, spewing his flood-waters northward toward the Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail). The Wave of Water is primarily composed of the Constellation Auriga. The are two more less bright stars which are closest to the Dragon’s mouth. These two dimmer stars are also part of this Wave of Water.

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Dragon of Revelation 12 Constellation” 

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TOMORROW…

July 2 (How to Breeze Through the Coming Crisis! Part 10: “They That Sow in Tears”) 

Vincent van Gogh – Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity) – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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