Ok. I did it. I think. Mostly. Maybe. I watched many hours of Daniel Valles' videos (he posts a roughly 30 minute video about every other day and has been since 2015, I think. There's s a lot.) and found when he really began to discuss DRACO as the "great dragon" in Rev 12. Below, I will post each video that had the most pertinent information about DRACO with the notes I took about it. I suddenly had this strange sense of urgency to get this done before Monday for some reason. I don't know if that is the Holy Spirit pressing on me to do this or some sort of unfounded anxiety about the eclipse. Remember though, I'm just relaying the information and interpretation that Daniel has presented. I do not agree with all of his interpretations or timelines. I do find his take on Draco very intriguing and to me the most likely explanation for the sign in Rev 12. The interpretation thereof is what needs to be discussed and expounded if indeed others think Draco is the sign as well. (By the way, I'm doing all this on an iPad and cannot use bolding, different colors, different size of font, or other useful formatting techniques or at least I haven't figured out how to yet, so the formatting is the best I can do. I apologize if it's difficult to follow. You can always watch the videos :-) .)
1st video: "Revelation 12 Dragon Tail Time" posted May 15, 2017:
—Rev 12:1-5, there are 2 separate signs which cover a period of time. Draw a line in verse 4 between "and did cast them to the earth" and "and the dragon stood before the woman." The line divides the 2 sequences.
—1st sequence: Before the completion of the sign of the woman, occurs while she is with child and travailing.
—2nd sequence: when the woman brings forth the man child on Sept 23rd and the sign completes.
—During 1st sequence, dragon is doing something: tail is drawing 1/3 stars and then casts them to earth. "Drew:" Greek meaning, like dragging a fishermen's net.
—Draco is in the North. Draco's star Thuban is orange in appearance.
—What did John see? Draco sweeping 120 degrees of stars. From May 20 2017 to Sept 23 2017.
—"and did cast them to the earth."
—Matt 24:29-30: "the stars shall fall from heaven"... And then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in heaven."
—stars will fall from heaven before sign completes; travailing occurs before sign completes; Sign of the Son of Man is sign of the woman in Rev 12.
—travailing: "for when they shall say "peace and safety" then sudden destruction comes upon them AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD and they shall not escape."
—we've already heard many calls for "peace and safety" ,
2rd video: "Sides of the North" posted May 18 2017:
—Ancient man knew a lot more about the heavens than modern man gives them credit for; Antikythera machine was an analog computer to discover celestial alignments built before 150 BC
—Signs in Revelation require "looking up." Signs are meant to be seen, Gen 1:14 and using the lights of the firmament.
—Disciples of Jesus were fishermen, in particular John (one of the sons of Zebedee) and they fished at night; would have used the stars for navigation and telling time; what John wrote about were things he and other fishermen would have been familiar with.
—Rev 12:1-4b: visible, observable lights in firmament occurring BEFORE sept 23 associated with time of travail.
—Signs John sees are observable, celestial sign and celestial events with symbolic overtones; the "overarching" sign is the woman getting pregnant and going through time of travail; during time of travail, another sign is occurring; both celestial events wrap up on the same day when she gives birth; both events have symbolic overtones and explains what will be acted out on earth.
GREAT RED DRAGON:
—what is a dragon in Greek? "Fabulous kind of serpent," serpent-like, snake-like. A giant serpent.
—Rev 12 refers to it both as a serpent and a dragon.
—Red: "fire-like" or "fiery" or "flame-colored", not blood red. Reddish color with orange and yellows; could be describing color of serpent or referring to its character.
—Ancient mythologies of Draco describe serpent being fought and slain with blood, so need to consider what Draco is known for as well.
—when look at Head of Draco, there are two stars: Rastaban and Eltanin that are the eyes. Long been associated as Draco's eyes. Serpent is looking the way the two eyes are facing.
—Eltanin has reddish, orange appearance (**discrepancy between Thuban and Eltanin from previous notes—missusmack08**)
—Depending on how you count the stars, Draco's head sometimes depicted with 4 or 5 stars, but there are 7 visible stars in the head.
WHAT DRACO IS DOING
—multi step process that is observable.
—1st stage: tail draws 1/3 stars of heaven; this happens by itself. "Draw" means dragging or trailing behind if.
—2nd stage: at end of dragging stars, stars will be cast to the earth just like Jesus said. Could be meteor shower which we call "falling stars"
—3rd stage: Dragon standing before woman when's she's ready to give birth on sept 23.
—visual shown of view from Jerusalem of Draco spinning in heaven over 4month period before coming to face the woman who is standing on the moon and also facing Draco on Sept 23.
WHERE IS DRACO?
—Satan, the old serpent, will be kicked out of heaven where he wants to be.
—Draco is circumpolar (meaning it never sets) and can be seen all year from Northern latitudes. Middle East always sees Draco,
—John knew the serpent-like creature; John describes it as "that old serpent"; Draco is an old constellation long associated with dragons and serpent-like creatures. He connects it with Devil and Satan.
—Where did Satan want to go? TO THE SIDES OF THE NORTH: "Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne ABOVE the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of congregation in THE SIDES OF THE NORTH..."
—We should be looking for the sign of the serpent in the north, the celestial north is place associated with being "above" the stars of God; celestial North Pole; thousands of years ago Draco's star Thuban was the pole star. Draco was known as the "great dragon"
—Corona Borealis: the northern crown above draco's head; has 7 stars.
—Bootes: near to Draco's head, long associated with herdmen, cattle, and horns. Has 10 stars.
3rd Video: "Fiery Dragon" posted May 29 2017:
I've already provided a brief synopsis on this video in a previous post, not quite as detailed as I did in the above two videos. It gives more support on cultural context for Draco being the great dragon.
There were several videos posted between the three videos which go into more interpretation and timeline. Since the last video, he has posted MANY more videos and has narrowed down his timeline etc. There may be more pertinent information in those but I don't have time to go through them all. In all of his videos he links some PDF articles in the "more" section below the video about the information and his interpretations. I haven't looked thoroughly at the one title "Revelation 12 Sign" to see if it gives more detailed or pertinent information, but I believe that is where the info on Draco should be out of all the articles.
Phew! That's done. So, what do you all think?
