12A great and miraculous sign appeared in heaven. It was a woman wearing the sun like clothes. The moon was under her feet. On her head she wore a crown of 12 stars. ²She was pregnant. She cried out in pain because she was about to have a baby.

³Then another sign appeared in heaven. It was a huge red dragon. He had seven heads and ten horns. On his seven heads he wore seven crowns. ⁴His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky. It threw them down to earth.

The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to have a baby. He wanted to eat her child the moment it was born.

⁵She gave birth to a son. He will rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was taken up to God and to his throne.

⁶The woman escaped into the desert where God had a place prepared for her. There she would be taken care of for 1,260 days.

⁷There was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸But the dragon wasn’t strong enough. He and his angels lost their place in heaven.

⁹The great dragon was thrown down to the earth, and his angels with him. The dragon is that old serpent called the devil, or Satan. He leads the whole world down the wrong path.

¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven. It said,

“Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God have come.

The authority of his Christ has come.

Satan, who brings charges against our brothers and sisters,

has been thrown down.

He brings charges against them before our God day and night.

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