Praise to our Lord, destruction to His enemies!

The three companion constellation to Sagittarius tell of the praise to our Lord and the destruction of His enemies.

Lyra is an ancient Harp, and it shows that our Lord shall be praised. The brightest star of this constellation is Vega and it name means He shall be exalted. Over and over throughout the psalms praise is lifted up to the Lord through the Harp or Lyra.

The second companion constellation is Ara, the Altar, but you need to notice that the fire burns down as fire burns in Tartarus or the abyss. The psalmist captures this heavenly picture perfectly when he wrote; "At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In His wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and His fire will consume them" (Psalm 21:9).

Our last constellation is Draco, the Dragon, the one cast down from heaven; the one whose destination is destruction. The name Draco in the Greek means trodden on, just as the psalmist sees the dragon writing, "The dragon shalt thou trample under feet" (Psalm 91:13). John the writer of the book of Revelation wrote about what we can look up and see in this constellation:

"The great dragon was hurled down - that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the who world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. The I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death' " (Revelation 12:9-11).

The ancient name of this constellation in Egypt is Her-fent which means the serpent accursed. The Alpha star is named in the Hebrew is Thuban which means subtle. The Beta star is named in the Hebrew Rastaban which means the head of the subtle or the head of the serpent. Another bright star located in the head of the dragon is Ethanin which means the long serpent or the dragon. Sagittarius is the arrow shot forth from God to destroy the works of the enemy the serpent, Draco.