RevelationChapter 12
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1A great sign appeared in the sky. It was a woman dressed with the sun. The moon was under her feet. A crown of twelve stars was on her head. 2She was pregnant. She was crying out in pain because she was about to give birth. 3Then another sign appeared in the sky. It was a huge red dragon. He had seven heads and ten horns. There were seven royal crowns on his heads. 4His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky. It threw them down to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth. He was ready to eat her child the moment it was born. 5She gave birth to a son, a boy. He will rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was taken up to God and to his throne. 6The woman ran away into the wilderness. God had made a place ready for her there. She would be taken care of there for 1,260 days. 7Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back. 8But the dragon was not strong enough. He and his angels lost their place in heaven. 9The great dragon was thrown down. He is that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan. He leads the whole world astray. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
"Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God have come.
The authority of his Christ has come.
For the one who accuses our brothers and sisters has been thrown down.
He accused them before our God day and night. 11They have won over him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the message they told.
They did not love their lives so much
that they were afraid to die. 12So be glad, you heavens,
and you who live in them!
But how terrible for the earth and the sea!
The devil has come down to you.
He is full of rage,
because he knows his time is short." 13The dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth. So he chased the woman who had given birth to the boy. 14But the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle. She flew away from the serpent to her place in the wilderness. There she was taken care of for a time, and times, and half a time. 15Then the serpent poured water out of his mouth like a river. He wanted to catch the woman and sweep her away in the flood. 16But the earth helped the woman. It opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured out of his mouth. 17Then the dragon was furious with the woman. He went off to make war against the rest of her children. They are the ones who keep God's commands and hold on to their witness about Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.