1 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She
was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. 3 Another
sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and
ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4 His tail drew one third of the
stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the
woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might
devour her child. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule
all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to
his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place
prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred
sixty days.
7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon.
The dragon and his angels made war. 8 They didn’t prevail, neither was a
place found for him any more in heaven. 9 The great dragon was thrown
down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of
the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown
down with him. 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now is come the
salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his
Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses
them before our God day and night. 11 They overcame him because of the
Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love
their life, even to death. 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who
dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone
down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted
the woman who gave birth to the male child. 14 Two wings of the great
eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her
place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,
from the face of the serpent. 15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth
after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by
the stream. 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth
and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with
the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’
testimony.
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