Posted on 06/27/2024 10:37:00 PM PDT by Morgana
Sometimes people do things that have extreme spiritual significance without even realizing it.
When I watched Jonathan Cahn’s latest video on Tuesday, I knew that I had to write about what just happened in New York City. From June 16th through June 19th, a 270 foot dragon was wrapped around the Empire State Building.
In addition, giant banners that featured dragons with the ominous message “All Must Choose” were draped over iconic landmarks all over the Big Apple, and restaurants throughout the city were featuring dragon-themed menu items. All of this was being done to promote the second season of “House of the Dragon,” and those behind this campaign probably did not intend to deliver any sort of a spiritual message. But as Jonathan Cahn correctly observed in his new video, there are times when people do things that are highly symbolic without even understanding the true significance of their actions.
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In Revelation chapter 12, Satan is identified as “the Devil”, “the dragon” and “the great dragon.”
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
In Revelation chapter 20, Satan is once again identified as “the Devil” and “the dragon.”
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Considering what the Bible has to say, should we be alarmed that a colossal dragon was just perched atop the Empire State Building?
In the middle of this month, a gigantic 270 foot dragon was literally coiled around the upper portion of New York City’s most famous skyscraper.
No, it’s not just you — there is, in fact, a giant inflatable dragon clutching the Empire State Building’s spire 102 stories above midtown Manhattan.
It’s Vhagar, the 270-foot (at least in this version) dragon queen in the “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of Dragons,” which premiered its second season Sunday night.
It’s part of an immersive “House of Dragons” experience from HBO Max and the Empire State Building to promote the show, and includes a photo op with the famed “Iron Throne,” among other features.
It took an enormous effort to pull this off, and the scale of the project was absolutely immense.
The huge version of — Vhagar, Aemond Targaryen’s dragon from Game of Thrones — appeared Sunday wrapped around the top of the iconic skyscraper. It was secured by 153 rigging points, 1,700 pattern pieces and more than 600,000 sewn stitches.
It was a very impressive promotional stunt.
But those behind it also sent a very powerful spiritual message without even realizing it.
New York is the financial center of our nation. Without the stock exchange and the financial institutions that are based in the Big Apple, we wouldn’t even have a functioning economy.
And the entire city is absolutely saturated with evil.
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In addition to the giant dragon on the Empire State Building, massive banners featuring enormous dragons with the message “all must choose” were hung on the New York Stock Exchange, the Manhattan Bridge, Penn Station, Citi Field, Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station and in Washington Square Park.
We have never seen anything quite like this before.
On top of everything else, restaurants all over the city were selling “show-branded menu items” to their customers.
In real life, restaurants and bars are running House of the Dragon pop-up promotions featuring show-branded menu items with #TeamGreen or #TeamBlack packaging and décor June 10–16. The houses waging war are Leon’s Bagels, Murray’s Bagels, John’s of Bleeker, Roberta’s, Ray’s, The Flower Shop, Mile End Deli, and Gray’s Papaya. They span the kingdom from Bushwick to the Upper West Side. A kingdom pulled violently atwain!
Needless to say, these unprecedented promotional efforts got a ton of attention.
And in general, most New Yorkers were responding positively.
Some fans of the original show, which won 59 Emmy Awards in its eight-season run, said it’s been exciting to watch the ads take over the city in recent days.
“I’m a big, big fan,” said Ali Wong of Austin, Texas.
“It’s interesting to see all the banners and everything you know, in Grand Central Station even. There’s so much advertising in the city and everywhere you go you see it.”
Of course this promotional campaign was not just limited to New York City.
It is being reported that there were digital banner “takeovers” of major landmarks all over the globe.
Cities around the world followed suit, with digital (CGI) banner takeovers of iconic landmarks and buildings, including the Eiffel Tower (Paris), Sugarloaf Mountain (Rio de Janeiro), Sydney Harbor, Al Ula (Saudi Arabia), Petronas Twin Towers (Kuala Lumpur), Obelisco Buenos Aires, Marina Bay Sands (Singapore), and many others.
Interestingly, this is all happening during “the Year of the Dragon” according to the Chinese calendar.
Is that just some sort of a bizarre coincidence?
We live at a time when the battle between good and evil is building up to a grand crescendo, and events that are talked about in the book of Revelation are starting to take place right in front of our eyes.
So was it just an accident that iconic locations all over the planet were just “taken over” by dragons and “all must choose” was the primary slogan of the campaign?
The Bible does speak of a time in the future when the Antichrist will take authority over our planet, and when that day arrives everyone will be forced to make a choice.
Those that submit to the Antichrist and take the Mark of the Beast will be allowed to live, and those that refuse will be put to death.
Whether those behind this promotional campaign realized it or not, the truth is that they just foreshadowed a choice that billions of people will be faced with someday.
Can't they just put up a giant T-rex? that would be cool
good post.
Manhattan is a dark conduit in the US.
Waiting for the return of the Stay Puft marshmallow man?
Sometimes a dragon is just a dragon
Good grief. There is reason to believe that in the ancient world, meteor and comet trails in the sky were portents of doom in the form of devastating planetary impacts. I doubt that the Bible instead had in mind a light show on a large building as a sign of the Apocalypse.
Agree, the dragon is just a dragon and has been part of Chinese culture for eons.
BFL
The author grasping at religious straws at best.
I was surprised that this news item hadn't gotten more attention on FR. This is FR, after all!
In the middle of this month, a gigantic 270 foot dragon was literally coiled around the upper portion of New York City's most famous skyscraper.
People get all worked up about "signs", but few consider signs as reverse messaging. That would require a slight amount of effort (looking toward the light, for starters), whereas it takes zero skill to find evil. It's pretty obvious that evil is located on every street corner. Pointing out evil is like shooting fish in a barrel. I suppose a lot of folks have bills to pay.
Here is a recent sign of death in the sports world: 24 Will Amaze.
270 = evil [ער]:
Strong's Number H7451 matches the Hebrew רַע (raʿ), which occurs 666 times in 623 verses in the WLC Hebrew.
270: the Hebrew numeral is written in reverse, because in the normal order, it would spell evil. Instead, it's ע"ר.
Thus, with a simple flip...
עֵר • ('ér) (feminine עֵרָה, masculine plural עֵרִים, feminine plural עֵרוֹת)
awake (conscious)
עָר • ('ár) m (plural indefinite עָרִים, singular construct עַר־, plural construct עֲרֵי־)
laurel (plant)
Laurus nobilis L. -- bay laurel, true laurel, or sweet bay. Native to the Mediterranean region. Used as an ornamental plant and culinary herb (one type of bay leaf) used in Mediterranean style dishes. It was also the original source of the laurel wreath of ancient Greece.
(a classic symbol of victory)
Interestingly, this is all happening during "the Year of the Dragon" according to the Chinese calendar.
Yang-Wood, the element for this new Year of the Dragon, is connected to trees, forests, or wooden posts. You'll see a lot of dragons up trees or wrapped around posts in new year imagery this year. According to the Chinese Five Elements theory, the colour of Wood is associated with green.
It's the year of the Wood Dragon, aka the Green Dragon, a place-name famous for certain men going inside in order to plot a Revolution. (America -- conceived in a pub. God Bless America.)
Green, for the patina of the copper dragon sign.
The wood dragon is the azure dragon is the green dragon:
The Azure Dragon represents the east and the spring season.[1] It is also sometimes referred to as the Blue-green Dragon, Green Dragon, or the Blue Dragon.
On that color note (literally shades of cyan, a primary color on the CMYK color model), here's a recent article from a Jewish source containing much overlapping information and symbolism , without even mentioning the year or the dragon hanging from the ESB:
At times, tekhelet is described as sapphire-blue or sea-blue, while other times it is described as greenish-blue or turquoise. Whatever the case, tekhelet is associated with the sea and its range of hues. The association here is actually quite mystical and profound. In fact, tzitzit is meant to remind us not only of God's laws, but of Creation itself, and the very structure of the cosmos.
The first time that we see a greenish-blue string is right at the beginning, on Day One of Creation. We are told that at first, the cosmos was tohu v'vohu. These mysterious words have been explained in a wide variety of ways.
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Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan points out that the etymology of teli might very well be talah, to "hang", as if the Earth is hanging by a string attached to it. This is supported by various ancient sources cited by Rabbi Kaplan, including a Midrash that says Earth is suspended from a fin of the Leviathan. The teli was long-associated with the Leviathan (described as a dragon by our Sages), as well as the nachash bariah or "Pole Serpent" mentioned in Tanakh, as in Isaiah 27:1.
He drew in the "green line" without drawing in the Green Line, but I'll mention it because the US embassy in JerUSAlem sits right on top of it, joining East and West.
As such, it has an interconnected "what's on the horizon" vibe to it.
(According to the sketch, what's on second, the base abbreviated as "2B": "two lines crossed in the middle: one vertical line and one horizontal line")
The world... is hanging by a thread.
Now what. Watch people totally freak out when they realize [out of the blue] that the world as nobody sees it.. is *exactly* as it's been presented all along.
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It's what the deep blue signs keep on saying,
Your Surprise is Waiting
The Devil already owned NYC when I got out in 1983. /smirk
But WHY after being chained a thousand years MUST the devil be set free for “a season?” Does God perhaps have some sympathy for him/it?
Did this just happen?
I know something like that happened a few years ago. Is this another one?
Because there will be people born during the Millennium who have never faced temptation and will have to choose between good and evil.
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