Revelation Chapter 12

The Woman and the Red Dragon

¹ An important sign appeared in the sky, a woman dressed in the sun with the moon under her feet and twelve crowns on her head. ² She was pregnant and cried out in labor, straining to give birth. ³ Another sign appeared in the sky, a big red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven diadems on its heads. ⁴ Its tail dragged down a third of the stars and threw them onto earth. It stood in front of the woman, ready to devour her child. ⁵ She had a Son that would rule the nations with an iron rod. He was snatched up to God and his throne, and ⁶ the woman ran into the desert. God had prepared a place there for people to sustain her 1260 days.

Rev 12:1-6

⁷ War broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels battling the dragon and his angels. ⁸ The dragon wasn’t powerful enough, and he and his angels no longer had a place in heaven. ⁹ The great dragon was thrown out, the old serpent, the devil, Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He and his angels were thrown down to earth. ¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven,

                        “Now salvation and power has come,

                                                the kingdom of our God,

                                                the authority of his Christ^Messiah,

                                    because our brothers’ accuser has been thrown out

                                                who accused them in front of our God day and night.     

                        ¹¹ They triumphed over their accuser

by the blood of the Lamb and by his message;

they didn’t love their life so much that they shrank from death.       

                        ¹² So celebrate, heaven, and you that tabernacle there.

                         Woe to land and sea

                                    because the devil has come down to you furious;

                                    he knows he doesn’t have much time left.”                                  

Rev 12:7-12

¹³ When the dragon saw he’d been thrown down to earth, he persecuted the woman that had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴ She received the two wings of a giant eagle so she could fly into the wilderness away from the dragon and be sustained for 3½ times. ¹⁵ The dragon spewed a river out of its mouth to sweep the woman away in a flood, ¹⁶ but the earth helped her and opened its mouth and drank up the river. ¹⁷ The dragon raged over the woman and went away to fight her other offspring that keep God’s commands and have the message about Jesus.        

Rev 12:13-17