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Revelation 12:1–10

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The Woman, Israel

1A 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.

The Red Dragon, Satan

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.

The Male Child, Christ

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 aone thousand two hundred and sixty days.

The Angel, Michael

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 kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the caccuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

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Footnotes

  1. *A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.
  2. 1Or shepherd
  3. 2Or Gentiles
  4. 1Lit they would nourish her for
  5. 1Lit inhabited earth

Cross references

  1. aMatt 24:30; Rev 12:3
  2. bRev 11:19
  3. cGal 4:26
  4. dPs 104:2; Song 6:10
  5. aIs 26:17; 66:6–9; Mic 4:9f
  6. aRev 12:1; 15:1
  7. bIs 27:1; Rev 12:4, 7, 9, 13, 16f; 13:2, 4, 11; 16:13; 20:2
  8. cRev 13:1; 17:3, 7, 9ff
  9. dDan 7:7, 20, 24; Rev 13:1; 17:12, 16
  10. eRev 13:1; 19:12
  11. aRev 8:7, 12
  12. bDan 8:10
  13. cIs 27:1; Rev 12:3, 7, 9, 13, 16f; 13:2, 4, 11; 16:13; 20:2
  14. dMatt 2:16
  15. aIs 66:7
  16. bPs 2:9; Rev 2:27
  17. c2 Cor 12:2ff
  18. aRev 11:3; 13:5
  19. aDan 10:13, 21; 12:1; Jude 9
  20. bRev 12:3
  21. cMatt 25:41
  22. aRev 12:3
  23. bGen 3:1; 2 Cor 11:3; Rev 12:15; 20:2
  24. cMatt 4:10; 25:41
  25. dRev 13:14; 20:3, 8, 10
  26. eLuke 10:18; John 12:31
  27. aRev 11:15
  28. bRev 7:10
  29. cJob 1:11; 2:5; Zech 3:1; Luke 22:31; 1 Pet 5:8