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:#Mt 24:30 a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.#Gn 37:9–10 2She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.#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#Rv 13:2,4,11; 20:2 having seven heads and ten horns,#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.#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.#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.#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,#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.#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#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,#1Sm 2:9; Ps 21:11; Jr 20:11 and there was no place for them in heaven any longer.#Jb 2:1 9So the great dragon was thrown out — the ancient serpent,#Gn 3:1 who is called the devil and Satan,#Lk 10:18; Rm 16:20; Rv 2:9; 3:9; 20:2,7 the one who deceives the whole world.#Rv 13:14; 20:3,8,10 He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.#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,#Rv 11:17; 19:1
because the accuser#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#1Pt 1:19; Rv 5:9; 7:14
and by the word of their testimony;#Rv 6:9
for they did not love their lives
to the point of death.#Lk 14:26; Jn 12:25; Heb 11:32–37; Rv 2:10
12Therefore rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them!#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,#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.#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#Rv 11:7; 13:7 against the rest of her offspring#12:17 Or seed#Gn 3:15 — those who keep the commands of God#1Co 7:19 and hold firmly to the testimony about Jesus.#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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Revelation 12
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1And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,
2and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.
3And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,
4and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;
5and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,
6and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she hath a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her — days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.
7And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,
8and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;
9and the great dragon was cast forth — the old serpent, who is called ‘Devil,’ and ‘the Adversary,’ who is leading astray the whole world — he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
10And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, ‘Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;
11and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life — unto death;
12because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; woe to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he hath little time.’
13And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,
14and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;
15and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,
16and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth;
17and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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