The completion of judgment, therefore, is what is pictured both by the burning pyre and the Coming One enthroned, with his threshing instrument. In Arabic it is called _Al Mugamra_, which means _the completing_, or _finishing_. The Greeks used the word _Ara_ sometimes in the sense of _praying_, but more frequently in the sense of _imprecation_ or _cursing_. This is the curse pronounced against the great enemy. This is the burning fire, pointing to the _completion_ of that curse, when he shall be cast into that everlasting fire “prepared for the devil and his angels.” This is the allusion to it written in the midst of the very Scripture from which we have already quoted (p. 66), Ps. xxi., where we read in verse 9 (which we then omitted):— “Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thine anger: The Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath; And the fire shall devour them.” This brings us to the final scene, closing up this first great book of the Heavens. 3. DRACO (The Dragon). _The Old Serpent, or the Devil, cast down from Heaven._ Each of the three great books concludes with this same foreshowing of Apocalyptic truth. The same great enemy is referred to in all these pictures. He is the Serpent; he is the Dragon; “the great dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan” (Rev. xii. 9). The Serpent represents him as the _Deceiver_; the Dragon, as the _Destroyer_. This _First_ Book concludes with the Dragon being cast down from heaven. The _Second_ Book concludes with _Cetus_, the Sea Monster, Leviathan, bound. The _Third_ Book concludes with Hydra, the Old Serpent, destroyed. Here, at the close of the _First_ Book, we see not merely a dragon, but the Dragon _cast down_! That is the point of this great star‐picture. No one has ever seen a dragon; but among all nations (especially in China and Japan), and in all ages, we find it described and depicted in legend and in art. Both Old and New Testaments refer to it, and all unite in connecting with it one and the same great enemy of God and man. It is against him that the God‐Man—“the Son of God—goes forth to war.” It is for him that the eternal fires are prepared. It is he who shall shortly be cast down from the heavens preparatory to his completed judgment. It is of him we read, “The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out and his angels with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down” (Rev. xii. 9, 10). It is of him that David sings:— “God is my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth ... Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces.” (Ps. lxxiv. 12‐14.)