Revelation 12:12–13:1

¹²So be joyful, you heavens!

Be glad, all you who live there!

But how terrible it will be for the earth and the sea!

The devil has come down to you.

He is very angry.

He knows his time is short.”

¹³The dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth. So he chased the woman who had given birth to the boy.

¹⁴The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle so that she could fly away. She could fly to the place prepared for her in the desert. There she would be taken care of for three and a half years. She would be out of the serpent’s reach.

¹⁵Then the serpent spit water like a river out of his mouth. He wanted to catch her and sweep her away in the flood. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman. It opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had spit out.

¹⁷The dragon was very angry with the woman. He went off to make war against the rest of her children. They obey God’s commands and hold firmly to what Jesus has said. 13The dragon stood on the seashore.

The Beast out of the Sea

I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads. There were ten crowns on his horns. On each head was an evil name that was displeasing to God.