Revelation 12

CHAPTER 12

The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon

¹And a great ^asign appeared ^bin heaven: ^ca woman ^dclothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

²And she was with child, and she ^*acried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

³Then ^aanother sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red ^bdragon having ^cseven heads and ^dten horns, and on his heads were ^eseven diadems.

⁴And his tail ^*swept away a ^athird of the stars of heaven and ^bthrew them to the earth. And the ^cdragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth ^dhe might devour her child.

⁵And ^ashe gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to ^1brule all the ²nations with a rod of iron; and her child was ^ccaught up to God and to His throne.

⁶Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she ^*had a place prepared by God, so that there ¹she would be nourished for ^a1,260 days.

War in Heaven

⁷And there was war in heaven, ^aMichael and his angels waging war with the ^bdragon. The dragon and ^chis angels waged war,

⁸and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

⁹And the great ^adragon was thrown down, the ^bserpent of old who is called the devil and ^cSatan, who ^ddeceives the whole ¹world. He was ^ethrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹⁰Then I heard ^aa loud voice in heaven, saying,

“Now the ^bsalvation, and the power, and the ^ckingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the ^daccuser of our brothers has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

¹¹“And they ^aovercame him because of ^bthe blood of the Lamb and because of ^cthe word of their witness, and they ^ddid not love their life even to death.

¹²“For this reason, ^arejoice, O heavens and ^byou who ¹dwell in them. ^cWoe to the earth and the sea, because ^dthe devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only ^ea short time.”

¹³And when the ^adragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted ^bthe woman who gave birth to the male child.

¹⁴But the ^atwo wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly ^binto the wilderness to her place, where she ^*was nourished for ^ca time and times and half a time, from the ¹presence of the serpent.

¹⁵And the ^aserpent ¹poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

¹⁶¹But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon ²poured out of his mouth.

¹⁷So the dragon was enraged with the woman and went off to ^amake war with the rest of her ^bseed, who ^ckeep the commandments of God and ^dhave the witness of Jesus.