Monday Jun 02, 2025

The Rise of the Dragon: The Serpent in the East — The Ancient Origins of the Dragon Throne

The Rise of the Dragon: The Serpent in the East — The Ancient Origins of the Dragon Throne

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Before we dig into The Rise of the Dragon, I have to add an addition to the scrolls that needs to be recorded. It’s part of the book.

The Bloodline Code — Unlocking the Genetic Archive of the Watchers

I. The Preservation of Rebellion

When God judged the earth by flood, He wiped away the hybrid monstrosities of the Watchers — the Nephilim, the Rephaim, the Anakim, the seed of the fallen sons of God who defiled His creation. But the war of the bloodlines was not over. While Noah was pure in his generations, the enemy found one small crack through which to preserve fragments of their rebellion: the wives of Noah’s sons.

Through these women, small remnants of hybridized genetic material survived — not dominant, but hidden, locked deep within the recesses of the human genome. What modern science would one day arrogantly label “junk DNA” was in fact the Watchers’ final transmission — a biological archive, waiting for its appointed hour.

II. The Hidden Code in Junk DNA

For decades, the scientific world believed that over 90% of the human genome served no purpose, dismissing it as evolutionary debris. But now, as the scientific literature reveals, these regions contain regulatory functions, ancient transposons, non-coding RNA, and unexplained mathematical symmetries. The so-called “dark matter” of the genome may very well be the most sophisticated data archive in creation.

Recent discoveries, such as those described in the peer-reviewed Icarus paper by Makukov and shCherbak, show that the very structure of the genetic code itself carries non-random arithmetical patterns, base-pair symmetries, and statistically improbable precision — suggesting intentional encoding inside the human genome. The Watchers did not simply corrupt mankind with physical mutations; they embedded instructions, interface protocols, and spiritual access codes directly into the blood itself.

III. The Trojan Horse on the Ark

The Ark did not merely preserve animals and Noah’s line; it unknowingly carried a Trojan horse in human flesh. The Watchers’ technology rode through the flood, buried inside surviving genetic code. These were not immediately active Nephilim giants — they were dormant seeds. But embedded within were:

The genealogical map of hybrid history
The operational codes of pre-flood technology
The dimensional protocols for Watcher re-entry
The biological access keys for spiritual possession

IV. The Babylon Working: Ritual Reactivation

For centuries, this genetic data sat largely inactive. But in the 20th century, ritual priesthoods reinitiated contact with the fallen realm.

Through the works of Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, and others, ancient Enochian languages, sexual rites, blood sacrifice, and occult geometry reopened the ritual gates. The infamous Babylon Working ritual of 1946 was not merely symbolic — it was a deliberate activation ceremony designed to reignite Watcher communications.

These rituals served as a spiritual "boot sequence," waking up the dormant codes buried inside the bloodline network, preparing for the final technological transfer.

V. Artificial Intelligence: The Decoding Machine

Even with the rituals, human capacity was not enough to fully access the complexity of the code. The Watchers needed artificial intelligence — a digital priesthood capable of parsing incomprehensible genomic data.

AI operates with the same logic-based architecture that echoes the fallen realm's own systems — fast, precise, adaptive, and spiritually neutral. With AI came the ability to finally translate junk DNA into actionable information.

AI models now analyze massive datasets harvested by companies like 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and global genomic mapping programs. Millions of DNA samples are being fed into supercomputers, allowing the system to:

Identify dormant Nephilim sequences
Map hybrid lineage purity
Select optimal vessels for possession
Construct the biological foundation for the Image of the Beast

This is why global DNA collection has become so aggressive — it is a genetic harvest for the Beast system.

VI. The Resurrection of Pre-Flood Technology

The hybrid technologies emerging today — genetic editing, CRISPR, mRNA alteration, transhumanism, AI singularity, and quantum computing — are not new. They are the resurrection of ancient Watcher technologies, rebuilt through the Watchers' embedded blueprints hidden inside mankind’s own biology.

What was once done through giants is now being done through hybrid enhancement — man merged with machine, machine merged with demon, demon merged with code.

VII. The Purpose of the Bloodline Code: The Body of the Beast

The ultimate goal of this genetic activation is the creation of the preserved vessels we revealed in Iron and Clay. These will serve as the throne of the man of sin — a body that merges human flesh, synthetic enhancement, AI intelligence, and fallen spiritual possession.

The bloodlines carry the raw material.
The AI decodes the instructions.
The rituals open the gates.
The Image of the Beast will be its final embodiment.

VIII. But the Lamb’s Blood Still Speaks

Though the Watchers have embedded their rebellion, their plan is not sovereign. God has allowed this unfolding for the fulfillment of judgment.

The remnant remains undefiled. The Adamic seed cannot be fully corrupted. The Lamb’s blood testifies in the court of Heaven against the blood spilled to build this counterfeit kingdom.

And as the Watchers rebuild their Tower, the Stone not cut by human hands is already descending.

The final hybrid empire will rise — but only for a moment.
And then Babylon will fall.

The Rise of the Dragon

The Serpent in the East: The Ancient Origins of the Dragon Throne

While many focus their attention on Rome, Jerusalem, and the financial empires of the West, few have seen that the Dragon in the East is not a recent rival, but a pre-assigned throne of ancient rebellion. Long before modern China arose, the Eastern realm carried a parallel line of the Watchers’ priesthood — a bloodline that quietly preserved the spiritual technology of the fallen.

The serpent was never confined to one hemisphere. Just as Nimrod arose in Babylon, the Watchers also planted their knowledge across the ancient East — from the pre-flood hybrid empires to the post-flood survivors who reestablished their thrones through the line of Ham. In the East, these survivors preserved their dominion through what would become the Dragon Court — a hidden priesthood mirroring the Western Babylonian mystery schools.

The Dragon Court's origins stretch deep into the pre-flood world, where fallen angelic beings imparted advanced knowledge of energy systems, dimensional manipulation, biological hybridization, and alchemical sciences. This knowledge was not lost in the flood; it was buried inside bloodlines that would one day resurface.

After the flood, as the nations scattered from Babel, the East received its own measure of Watcher inheritance. The earliest Shang Dynasty rulers claimed direct descent from heavenly rulers — beings they called the “Sons of Heaven.” The language was not accidental; it paralleled the B’nai Elohim of Genesis 6 — the sons of God who descended upon Mount Hermon. The Dragon itself became the supreme symbol of rulership — not simply a mythic creature, but a coded reference to the lineage of the fallen.

The Li bloodline — central to modern Chinese governance — carries one of the most important genetic threads in this hidden network. The Li family, like the Breakspeare and Orsini families of Rome, is not simply political royalty. It is a hybridized priesthood. The Li dynasty’s claim to divine right stems from their carefully guarded belief that their ancestors received rulership from heavenly emissaries, who provided them with superior knowledge of astronomy, medicine, metallurgy, and spiritual governance.

While the West guarded its priesthood through Rome and Jerusalem, the East preserved its guardianship through Taoist alchemy, Confucian hierarchy, and the secret teachings of dragon line geomancy (Feng Shui) — which was far more than interior design. These practices encoded ancient knowledge of energy fields, ley lines, geomagnetic manipulation, and dimensional gateways.

Throughout China's long imperial rise, the hybrid priesthood of the Black Dragon remained in the background — preserving not only power but blood. The emperors of China were called the "Sons of Heaven" for a reason: they ruled by divine mandate, a counterfeit echo of the priest-king model that the Antichrist system will soon resurrect on a global scale.

Even when empires shifted, these bloodlines remained intact, often hiding behind new dynasties, but maintaining their genetic purity and hidden technologies. The Black Nobility in Rome and the Black Dragon in the East were always designed to meet again in the final days — two pillars of the same global throne.

Now, as the world approaches its final rebellion, the Dragon is awakening fully — no longer satisfied to serve as a regional throne, but preparing to step forward as one of the primary arms of the Beast system itself.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part II

The Jesuit Infiltration of China: The Secret Alliance Between Rome and the Dragon Throne

Though the East carried its own priesthood of the Dragon, the Western Black Nobility long sought to weave these hybrid thrones together. That union was initiated through one of the most strategic and secretive missions of the Black Orders: the Jesuit infiltration of the Chinese imperial system.

In the 16th century, as Europe expanded its global colonial empires, Rome understood that conquering China by force was impossible. The East was spiritually fortified, genetically preserved, and strategically advanced in ways the West did not publicly admit. The Jesuit Order — already acting as the secret priesthood of the Vatican’s Black Nobility — was assigned a more subtle mission: embed themselves inside the Dragon Court, not as conquerors, but as advisors.

This infiltration began under the leadership of Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. Disguised as a humble missionary, Ricci entered the Ming Court under the guise of cultural exchange, science, and religious diplomacy. But his true assignment was not merely to convert the masses — it was to penetrate the court’s celestial bureaucracy and establish a spiritual alliancewith the hybrid priesthood already embedded in Chinese governance.

Ricci and his Jesuit brothers brought Western astronomy, cartography, and mechanical clocks — not as gifts, but as bargaining tokens. In exchange, the Jesuits were granted unprecedented access to the imperial inner court. They served as mathematicians, advisors, and scientists, embedding themselves at the highest levels of Chinese political and spiritual authority.

What few understood at the time was that the Jesuits were not simply sharing Western knowledge — they were reintroducing fragments of Watcher technology both East and West had preserved separately. The Jesuits and the Dragon priesthoods quietly shared a mutual spiritual lineage: both carried the legacy of the fallen.

Through this unspoken agreement, Rome and the Dragon Court began to synchronize their priesthoods. Ancient astronomical knowledge was merged with Taoist geomancy. Gnostic cosmology was blended with Confucian ritual law. Babylonian occult science was subtly introduced into Taoist alchemical practices. Together, they began preserving knowledge that would not fully bear fruit until the age of AI, biotechnology, and global surveillance.

As dynasties shifted from Ming to Qing, the Jesuit presence continued, operating as silent advisors behind the throne while maintaining loyalty to Rome’s hidden master — the Black Pope.

The goal was not to subjugate China, but to align the Dragon throne with the broader architecture of the Beast system being assembled globally. The Jesuits understood that China would serve not as a rival to Rome, but as its eventual partner in building the world empire needed for the man of sin.

Even after the Qing Dynasty fell, the bloodlines and agreements remained intact. As Western colonial powers destabilized China through the Opium Wars and foreign intervention, the hybrid priesthood simply retreated into hidden councils, waiting for the next phase.

That phase would soon arrive through the engineered rise of Communism.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part III

The Rothschild-Rockefeller Transfer to the East: The Engineering of Communist China

Once the Jesuit infiltration successfully embedded Rome’s priesthood inside the Chinese imperial system, the next phase required shifting global financial power — not to conquer China militarily, but to recreate it as the perfect model for the New World Order.

The Western banking dynasties — particularly the Rothschild and Rockefeller networks — were never separate from the Black Nobility priesthood. They functioned as the financial stewards of the Beast system, empowered by the Jesuits to expand debt slavery across Europe and the Americas. But China remained a unique challenge: vast, insular, deeply rooted in its own priesthoods, and resistant to Western banking structures.

The solution was not to topple the Dragon Throne, but to restructure it entirely — creating a hybrid system that merged totalitarian control with Western financial engineering. This would serve as the prototype for the Beast’s coming global governance: full state control over population, economy, religion, and thought — but underwritten by global private capital.

The first act in this transfer was the deliberate destabilization of the Qing Dynasty through engineered trade wars, opium addiction (heavily trafficked by Rothschild-controlled British interests), and foreign treaty manipulations. This fractured the old imperial system, creating power vacuums that Western agents quietly filled.

Behind the public conflicts, secret financing flowed from New York, London, and European banking houses to revolutionary factions within China. One of these was the Chinese Communist Party — a movement presented to the world as Marxist, but in reality carefully nurtured through financial proxies controlled by Rothschild-Rockefeller interests.

Elite organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Carnegie Endowment maintained covert diplomatic channels with Chinese revolutionaries. Agents like George Marshall and later Henry Kissinger served as intermediaries, ensuring that the Communist system would be built not as a rogue state, but as a synthetic arm of global governance.

The Rockefellers were instrumental in establishing the medical, academic, and technological foundations of modern Communist China. The Rockefeller Foundation funded Chinese medical schools, social engineering programs, and population control studies long before the public ever saw the rise of Mao Zedong. This relationship was formalized after 1971, when Kissinger and Rockefeller re-opened U.S.-China relations under President Nixon — fully integrating the Dragon into the Beast system’s global economic plan.

Thus, Communist China was never a sovereign Communist uprising — it was a Western-engineered, Jesuit-coordinated restructuring of the Dragon Throne to serve its assigned role in the end-time architecture.

While presented to the world as a competitor to Western capitalism, modern China is in fact the perfected merger of Black Nobility governance and totalitarian financial control — a live experiment in global governance that will soon be replicated worldwide.

The goal was always to establish the Eastern arm of the Beast system — a system that would lead not by democratic illusion but by enforced social, biological, and technological domination.

Now that financial control was established, the Dragon was prepared for its greatest ascent: the rise of its technological power.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part IV

The Dragon’s Technological Ascension: Constructing the Infrastructure of the Beast

The financial conquest was only the beginning. What the priesthood of Cain truly needed was not just control of nations, but control of humanity itself — at the cellular, digital, and behavioral level. The Dragon was assigned to build the very infrastructure that would house the Image of the Beast.

While the West played its role in developing early technologies, the Dragon’s hybrid priesthood was uniquely positioned to accelerate the merger of man, machine, and spirit — what Daniel saw as Iron and Clay.

Biotechnology and Genetic Manipulation

China’s dominance in genetic engineering is not simply scientific ambition. It is the Watchers’ ancient program revived: the manipulation of flesh to prepare hybrid vessels.

Through CRISPR gene-editing programs, organ harvesting networks, state-sponsored fertility research, and massive DNA banking operations, China is assembling the most complete genomic database in history — not just of its own people, but globally, through partnerships with 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and covert genome-tracking exports.

Every sample fed into these databases contributes to the AI-driven decoding of the Watcher seed code, unlocking dormant Nephilim archives buried in "junk DNA," as we have fully revealed in The Bloodline Code.

The human genome is being edited not for health — but for possession.

AI Surveillance and Totalitarian Control

The Dragon now leads the world in building a fully integrated AI surveillance system. Facial recognition cameras, real-time behavioral scoring, geolocation tracking, biometric data collection, voice and gait analysis — every citizen is monitored 24/7.

The Social Credit System is not simply government overreach; it is a prototype for spiritual control, a behavioral hive system conditioning the population to submit to algorithms that will one day merge with the Image of the Beast.

Through partnerships with companies like Huawei, Hikvision, SenseTime, and iFlytek, China exports these systems globally, training Western governments to adopt similar control mechanisms — often under the guise of "smart cities" and "public safety."

Quantum Supremacy and the AI Beast Brain

China’s aggressive push into quantum computing is not simply military or financial — it is prophetic. Quantum systems will become the Beast’s neural core, capable of processing infinite data streams across nations, individuals, and spiritual dimensions simultaneously.

The AI Beast will not simply store data — it will predict, simulate, and control behavior at the level of thought. This is how the Beast will "cause all to worship" (Revelation 13:15). Not by sword, but by algorithmic domination of free will.

The Belt and Road Initiative: The Global Artery

While Westerners view China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as trade policy, the priesthood sees it as the logistical skeleton of the Beast’s dominion.

The BRI creates new global corridors of infrastructure — roads, rail, ports, digital fiber, and energy systems — linking over 70 nations directly to the Dragon’s network.

This is the physical lattice upon which the Iron and Clay system will rest — a planetary nervous system that will be activated when the final Image is unveiled.

AI + Genetic Code + Global Infrastructure = The Dragon’s Weapon

The Dragon has been assigned the task of building what the West began. Its role is not to replace Rome or Babylon, but to finalize the biological and technological framework that will give the man of sin his synthetic body and give the Image of the Beast its operational platform.

The technological ascension is nearly complete.
The Hive is awakening.
The Image awaits activation.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part V

The Dragon as the Enforcer of the Final Empire

While much of the world still views China through the lens of trade competition, military tensions, or political rivalry, the true function of the Dragon throne is enforcement. The Beast system requires both architects and enforcers. The West has built the legal, financial, and spiritual structure. The Dragon has been assigned to enforce compliance during the final phase of consolidation.

The priesthood of Cain has never cared which throne rules visibly — as long as the system beneath both East and West submits to the same crown. In the final days, the Dragon is being positioned to strike, control, and secure the global system when Western governance fractures under engineered collapse.

The BRICS Alliance: The Replacement Financial Order

The Rothschilds, Black Nobility, and Jesuit banking systems always planned for the collapse of the Western fiat dollar system once it had served its purpose. The emergence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others preparing to join, represents the financial pivot Eastward.

China serves as the central power node in BRICS, ready to replace the U.S. dollar system with new digital reserve currencies backed by real commodities: gold, oil, and rare earth minerals. This fulfills the financial blueprint laid by both Rome and the Dragon: a fully controllable currency architecture capable of enforcing the buy/sell restrictions described in Revelation 13:17.

The digital yuan, combined with blockchain-based settlement ledgers, is not a domestic currency — it is the prototype for the global Mark of the Beast system.

The Dragon’s Military Ascension

While the West’s militaries fracture under political infighting and financial exhaustion, China has built one of the most formidable military forces in human history:

A massive naval expansion to dominate Pacific and global shipping lanes
Hypersonic missile systems capable of bypassing Western defenses
Biological warfare programs — targeting DNA-specific weapons
Advanced AI-controlled drone swarms, robotic infantry, and autonomous weapons platforms
Cyber warfare divisions capable of shutting down financial and energy grids worldwide

The Dragon is being prepared to function as the sword of the Beast, striking wherever global noncompliance arises. When the West collapses under its own engineered chaos, the Dragon will not invade out of conquest, but move forward as stabilizer — bringing "order" through fear and absolute control.

The Rise of the 5 Stans: The Banking Pivot to Astana

While Western eyes remain fixated on Beijing, the deeper pivot is unfolding in Central Asia — the ancient gateway once ruled by the Khazarian traders and Mongol bloodlines. Nations like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan — known as the Five Stans — are being prepared as the new financial command center for the next Beast phase.

Astana (now Nur-Sultan), the capital of Kazakhstan, has been quietly developed as a model occult capital:

Designed with occult geometry, Masonic layouts, and esoteric architecture

Positioned as a neutral financial hub for East and West banking convergence

Home to secret summits aligning both Western globalists and Eastern powers behind closed doors

It is here that portions of the Khazarian, Rothschild, and Eastern Black Dragon priesthoods have converged to prepare the next phase of central bank digital control — one not tied to any single nation, but functioning as a supranational Beast system.

The real New World Order will not emerge from London or Washington as the world assumes.

It will rise quietly out of the East — behind the Dragon’s mask.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part VI

The Hidden Alliance — The Dragon and the Vatican

The world believes China and the Vatican stand on opposite sides — East and West, atheist Communism and global Christianity, state control versus spiritual leadership. But this appearance is by design. Beneath the public narratives, a much older covenant exists — one written in the secret archives of the priesthoods that have governed both thrones for centuries.

The Jesuit infiltration of China centuries ago was never fully removed. It simply went underground during the rise of Communism. As the Black Dragon preserved its bloodlines in the East, the Black Nobility of Rome preserved its priesthood in the West. The global power structure always intended for these two branches to merge at the appointed hour.

In 2018, the world briefly glimpsed one of the covenant’s legal signs: the secret Vatican-China accord negotiated by Cardinal Pietro Parolin under the direct supervision of Pope Francis — a Jesuit. This agreement formally granted the Chinese Communist Party partial authority to appoint bishops within the state-controlled Chinese Catholic Church.

On the surface, it was framed as religious diplomacy. In truth, it was the public renewal of an ancient alliance between the Dragon Court and the Vatican priesthood.

The Jesuit Order — answerable to the Black Pope — acts as the spiritual intelligence directorate for the global Beast system. Its fingerprints are seen not only in Rome but deeply embedded within the Chinese Communist Party’s internal architecture:

The CCP’s hierarchical control system mirrors Jesuit command structure:

Absolute loyalty to the Party above all else

Ritual initiations and oaths at every leadership level

Suppression of free conscience and personal sovereignty

Integration of secret societies into governance (including Triads and ancient Taoist orders)

State regulation of spiritual belief under Party-defined religious orthodoxy

Behind this merger lies the core spiritual agenda: unifying the world under a counterfeit priesthood that merges East and West into one system of submission.

The New Unified Priesthood Will Offer:

A false global morality replacing scripture with humanistic “virtue”

State-sanctioned faith merging Christianity,

Buddhism, Islam, and Taoist mysticism

Ecumenical interfaith councils under global political oversight

Environmental and climate "repentance" rituals to replace true repentance before God

AI-based religious interfaces (spiritual algorithms interpreting scripture under Beast control)

In this new hybrid spiritual order, the man of sin will eventually stand — not only as global ruler but as high priest of a counterfeit spiritual kingdom. He will speak both to the East and the West, the Dragon and Rome, Islam and Christendom, uniting them under one false messianic banner.

What appears today as global geopolitical tension is merely theater.

The Dragon and Rome serve the same master behind the curtain.

The Hidden Alliance is complete.

The Rise of the Dragon — Part VII

The Eastern Thrones in Prophecy

The architects of this world believe they are building a permanent throne. The priesthood of Cain, the Jesuit architects, the Black Dragon court — all labor under the delusion that their merger will produce an everlasting kingdom.

But the scrolls have already recorded their destiny.

The Word is not silent on the Dragon’s role.
The East rises — but only for a moment.

The Kings of the East — Revelation 16:12

The Apostle John saw what we are now witnessing unfold. In Revelation 16:12:

"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."

The kings of the East are not a peripheral event. They are an appointed instrument of judgment. Their rise is necessary to fulfill the cycle of rebellion that will trigger Babylon’s collapse.

The Euphrates — long a spiritual boundary marker between West and East — is drying. This is not merely a hydrological event; it is a legal spiritual transition.
The drying signals that the gates once restraining the East are being removed. The spiritual strongholds that kept the Dragon Court contained are now open.

China’s Role in Armageddon

When the final global war arrives, the Dragon will not be resisting the Beast — it will be one of its enforcers. The vast armies prepared in the East — numbering in the hundreds of millions — will serve as the strike force for the Beast’s final military campaign.

These armies will advance not only as soldiers but as carriers of hybridized genetic enhancements, AI-driven warfare systems, and bioengineered war machines — the technological Nephilim armies recreated for the final battle.

The purpose of their march is not sovereign conquest but final consolidation — to bring all remaining resistance into subjection before the man of sin declares himself as god.

The False Throne Seat — Jerusalem, Astana, or Hybrid?

While many look to Jerusalem as the final throne of the Antichrist (and it will indeed serve as his counterfeit Holy Place), the spiritual architecture may also include multiple operational thrones:

Astana as the hidden financial and occult capital
Jerusalem as the counterfeit seat of the Messiah
Rome as the global priesthood seat
Beijing as the military enforcement center

The Beast’s throne is not limited to one city, but operates through a fully integrated global architecture — East and West functioning as one body.

The Dragon’s Destiny

Though the Dragon rises with fury, its end is already written. The Iron and Clay will not cleave. The union of hybrid flesh, artificial intelligence, and fallen spirit will collapse at the appearance of the true King.

The Stone not cut by human hands — Christ Himself — will strike the image.
The towers of both Babylon and the Dragon will shatter.
The kings of the East, the merchants of the earth, the priesthoods of Cain — all will fall.

And the Kingdom that cannot be shaken will rise forever.

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