Revelation 12
12
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
1A great sign # 12:1 Or great symbolic display; see Rv 12:3 appeared in heaven: # 12:1 Mt 24:30 a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. # 12:1 Gn 37:9–10 2She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth. # 12:2 Ps 48:6; Is 13:8; Jr 22:23 3Then another sign # 12:3 Or another symbolic display appeared in heaven: There was a great fiery red dragon # 12:3 Rv 13:2,4,11; 20:2 having seven heads and ten horns, # 12:3 Dn 7:7,20,24; Rv 13:1; 17:3–18 and on its heads were seven crowns. # 12:3 Or diadems 4Its tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. # 12:4 Dn 8:10; Rv 8:7,12 And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth it might devour her child. # 12:4 Mt 2:16 5She gave birth to a Son, a male who is going to rule # 12:5 Or shepherd all nations with an iron rod. # 12:5 Ps 2:7–9; Rv 2:27; 19:15 Her child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, # 12:6 Ex 16:4; 1Kg 19:3–8; Hs 2:14 to be nourished there # 12:6 Or God, that they might feed her there for 1,260 days. # 12:6 Dt 1:31; 2:7; Dn 12:11; Rv 11:2–3; 12:14; 13:5
The Dragon Thrown Out of Heaven
7Then war broke out in heaven: Michael # 12:7 Dn 10:13,21; 12:1; Jd 9 and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought, 8but he could not prevail, # 12:8 1Sm 2:9; Ps 21:11; Jr 20:11 and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. # 12:8 Jb 2:1 9So the great dragon was thrown out — the ancient serpent, # 12:9 Gn 3:1 who is called the devil and Satan, # 12:9 Lk 10:18; Rm 16:20; Rv 2:9; 3:9; 20:2,7 the one who deceives the whole world. # 12:9 Rv 13:14; 20:3,8,10 He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him. # 12:9 Mt 25:41; Lk 10:18; Jn 12:31 10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say,
The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Christ
have now come, # 12:10 Rv 11:17; 19:1
because the accuser # 12:10 Jb 1:6–12; 2:1–5; Zch 3:1; Rm 8:33–34 of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them
before our God day and night,
has been thrown down.
11They conquered him
by the blood of the Lamb # 12:11 1Pt 1:19; Rv 5:9; 7:14
and by the word of their testimony; # 12:11 Rv 6:9
for they did not love their lives
to the point of death. # 12:11 Lk 14:26; Jn 12:25; Heb 11:32–37; Rv 2:10
12Therefore rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them! # 12:12 Ps 96:11; Is 49:13
Woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has come down to you
with great fury,
because he knows his time is short.
The Woman Persecuted
13When the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he persecuted # 12:13 Or pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, # 12:14 Ex 19:4; Dt 32:10–11; Is 40:31 so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time. # 12:14 Dn 7:25; 12:7; Rv 11:2; 13:5 15From his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river flowing after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. 16But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. 17So the dragon was furious with the woman and went off to wage war # 12:17 Rv 11:7; 13:7 against the rest of her offspring # 12:17 Or seed,# 12:17 Gn 3:15 — those who keep the commands of God # 12:17 1Co 7:19 and hold firmly to the testimony about Jesus. # 12:17 Rv 1:2,9; 19:10; 20:4
The Beast from the Sea
18The dragon # 12:18 Or he; other mss read I stood on the sand of the sea. # 12:18 Some translations put Rv 12:18 either in Rv 12:17 or Rv 13:1.
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Hisgalus 12
12
1And an ot gadol (miraculous sign) was seen in Shomayim, an ISHA#12:1 Gn 3:15 having been clothed with the shemesh (sun), and the levanah (moon) underneath the feet of her, and on the rosh of her an atarah (diadem) of kokhavim (stars) numbering Shneym Asar (Twelve),#12:1 Gn 37:9 2And in her womb having a YELED#12:2 Isa 9:5 (CHILD, Moshiach), and she cries out, suffering CHEVLEI and being in pain to give birth.#12:2 Isa 26:17 3And another ot (miraculous sign) was seen in Shomayim. And hinei, a great red Dragon NACHASH,#12:3 Gn 3:1 having sheva (seven) heads and eser (ten) horns, and on the heads of it sheva (seven) ketarim (crowns).#12:3 Dan 7:7,20 4And the tail of him drags down a third of the kokhavim (stars) of Shomayim and threw them to ha'aretz (the earth), and the Dragon NACHASH was standing before the ISHA (Woman) who was about to give birth, that when she gives birth to the YELED (CHILD, Moshiach)#12:4 Isa 9:6 [5] of her, he might devour the YELED.#12:4 Dan 8:10 5And she gave birth to a BEN (SON, Moshiach),#12:5 Isa 9:6 [5] a zachar (male), who is about to shepherd all the Goyim (Nations) with a shevet barzel (scepter of iron),#12:5 Ps 2:9 and the YELED of the ISHA was snatched up to Hashem and to his Kes (Throne). 6And the ISHA fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place having been prepared by Hashem, that there she can be nourished a thousand two hundred and sixty yamim (days).
7And there was milchamah (war) in Shomayim, Mikha'el and the malachim of him fought against the Dragon NACHASH; and the Dragon NACHASH and his malachim fought back. 8But the Dragon NACHASH was not strong enough nor was any place found for them any longer in Shomayim. 9And the great Dragon, that NACHASH HaKadmoni (Ancient Serpent) was thrown down, the one being called the Malshin (Informer, Accuser) and HaSatan, the one deceiving the whole inhabited world. He was thrown to ha'aretz (the earth) and the malachim of him were thrown down with him.#12:9 Gn 3:1-7 10And I heard a kol gadol (loud voice) in Shomayim, saying, “Now has come the Yeshu'at Eloheinu and the Gevurah (Power) and the Malchut of Hashem Eloheinu and the memshalah (government) of his Moshiach, because the Malshin who is the accuser of our Achim b'Moshiach, the one accusing them before Hashem yomam valailah (day and night) was thrown down.#12:10 Job 1:9-11; Zech 3:1 11And they won the nitzachon (victory) over the Dragon NACHASH because of the dahm of the SEH (Lamb),#12:11 Ex 12:22-23; Isa 53:7, Moshiach and because of the dvar of the eidushaft (testimony) of them and because they did not have ahavah for their neshamot unto Mavet and were willing to die al kiddush ha-Shem. 12Therefore be glad, Shomayim, and the ones whose mishkan is there, but oy to ha'aretz (the earth) and to hayam (the sea), because HaSatan came down to you, having great ka'as (anger), having da'as that his time is short.”#12:12 Ps 96:11; Isa 44:23; 49:13
13And when the Dragon NACHASH saw that he was thrown down to ha'aretz, he brought redifah (persecution) on the ISHA who gave birth to the zachar. 14And two wings of the Nesher hagadol (great Eagle) were given to the ISHA that she might fly to her place in the midbar, where she is nourished there for a time and times and half a time, away from the presence of the NACHASH (Serpent).#12:14 Ex 19:4; Dan 7:25; 12:7 15And the NACHASH spewed mayim (water) after the ISHA from its mouth as a river, that he might make her carried away by a river. 16And ha'aretz (the earth) aided the ISHA and ha'aretz opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the Dragon NACHASH spewed out of its mouth. 17And the Dragon NACHASH had great ka'as (anger) at the ISHA and went away to make milchamah with the rest of her ZERA#12:17 Gn 3:15; Isa 53:10 (seed), the ones keeping the mitzvot of Hashem and having the eidus (testimony),#12:17 See eidus, edus, edut in the Introduction to the Book of Iyov. Witness is what these words mean, and they are transliterated variously in the OJB, also eidushaft of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 18And then the Dragon NACHASH took his stand on the seashore sand of the yam (sea).
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