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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman and the Dragon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to a son, a male child, who &#8220;will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span><span class="content"> And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The great dragon was hurled down&#8212;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now have come the salvation and the power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the kingdom of our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the authority of his Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">who accuses them before our God day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">has been hurled down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They triumphed over him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">by the blood of the Lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">and by the word of their testimony;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">they did not love their lives so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">as to shrink from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore rejoice, you heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">and you who dwell in them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">But woe to the earth and the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because the devil has gone down to you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">He is filled with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because he knows that his time is short.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent&#8217;s reach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring&#8212;those who keep God&#8217;s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Ezra the teacher of the Law stood on a high wooden platform built for the occasion. Beside him on his right stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; and on his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Ezra praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, &#8220;Amen! Amen!&#8221; Then they bowed down and worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with their faces to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Levites&#8212;Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah&#8212;instructed the people in the Law while the people were standing there. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God, translating it</span></span></span><span class="content"> and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, &#8220;This day is holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Do not mourn or weep.&#8221; For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nehemiah said, &#8220;Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is your strength.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Levites calmed all the people, saying, &#8220;Be still, for this is a holy day. Do not grieve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the teacher to give attention to the words of the Law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They found written in the Law, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: &#8220;Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters&#8221;&#8212;as it is written.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">See Lev. 23:37-40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.</span></span></div>
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