Revelation 12:1–10

The Woman and the Dragon

¹²A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ²She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.^{* 3}Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads.^{* 4}His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to deliver a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.^{* 5}And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to ruleⁱ all the nations with a scepter of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne,^{* 6}and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.^*

Michael Defeats the Dragon

⁷And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back,^{* 8}but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. ⁹The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.^*

¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming,

“Now have come the salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God

and the authority of his Messiah,^j

for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down,

who accuses them day and night before our God.^*