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Currently viewing: Revelation 12 · MPV reading edition
A great wonder appeared in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head, gave birth to a child. She cried out in pain, laboring to be delivered.
As she stood before God, a powerful dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon its heads, appeared in heaven. Its tail drew one-third of the stars from heaven and cast them to the earth. The dragon was ready to devour her child as soon as it was born.
The woman gave birth to a man child who was destined to rule all nations with authority and power. Her child was caught up unto God and to his throne, and she fled into the wilderness where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished there for 1,260 days.
War broke out in heaven as Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and its angels. But the dragon's forces were defeated and their place was no longer found in heaven. The great dragon, that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceives the entire world, was cast out into the earth along with its angels.
A loud voice echoed through heaven: "Now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ." This was because the accuser of our brothers had been cast down, who accused them before our God day and night. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
As a result, the heavens and earth dwellers should rejoice because woe has come upon those who inhabit the earth and sea. For the devil has come down to you with great wrath, knowing he has but a short time left. When the dragon saw that it was cast to the earth, it persecuted the woman who had given birth to the male child.
To protect her, two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman so she might fly into the wilderness to her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent. But the serpent was enraged with the woman and went to wage war against those who kept God's commands and held to the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The earth assisted the woman, opening its mouth to swallow up the flood that the dragon had hurled from its mouth. The dragon, however, was not deterred and continued to wage war against all who stood for God.