Revelation 12

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1. 1And a great wonder appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
2. 2She was pregnant and cried out, experiencing the pain of labor as she prepared to give birth.
3. 3And another wonder appeared in heaven: a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on its heads.
4. 4Its tail swept a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them down to the earth. The dragon positioned itself in front of the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child the moment it was born.
5. 5She gave birth to a son, a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6. 6The woman fled into the wilderness, to a place God had prepared for her, where she would be cared for during 1,260 days.
7. 7Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
8. 8But they did not prevail, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
9. 9The great dragon was thrown down — that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10. 10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven declare, "Now salvation, strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ have come! The accuser of our brothers and sisters has been cast down, the one who accused them before our God day and night."
11. 11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death.
12. 12So rejoice, you heavens, and everyone who lives in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you with great wrath, knowing his time is short.
13. 13When the dragon realized he had been thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who had given birth to the male child.
14. 14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle so she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she would be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, away from the face of the serpent.
15. 15The serpent spewed water from its mouth like a river after the woman, trying to sweep her away in the flood.
16. 16But the earth came to the woman's rescue — it opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from its mouth.
17. 17The dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her children — those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ.