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1A very wonderful thing then appeared in the sky. I saw a woman who was wearing the sun like her clothes. The moon was under her feet. A crown of 12 stars was on her head.
2She was pregnant . She screamed with pain as she tried to give birth to her baby.
3Then another wonderful thing appeared in the sky. It was a very big red dragon . It had seven heads and ten horns . There was a crown on each head.
4Its tail beat away a third of the stars from the sky. It threw them down on the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who would soon give birth to her baby. He was waiting there to eat her child as soon as he was born.
5The woman gave birth to a son. He was a man who would rule all the nations of the world with strong authority. Then someone quickly took her child away. He went up to God and to his throne .
6The woman ran away into the wilderness . God had prepared a special place to keep her safe there for 1,260 days.
7Then a war started in heaven . Michael and his angels fought against the dragon . The dragon and his army of angels fought against Michael and his angels.[#12:7 Michael is a powerful , a leader of God's angels. See Jude 1:9 and Daniel 10:13,21; 12:1.]
8But the dragon and his army were not strong enough to win the battle . They no longer had a place for themselves in heaven.
9Michael and his angels threw the great dragon out of heaven. The dragon is called the devil or Satan . He is the snake who has been there since long ago. He tells lies to deceive the whole world. They threw him down to the earth, together with all his angels.
10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven that said:
‘Now God has saved his people from Satan's power!
God has shown his great power as King.
His Messiah has authority to rule.
Satan said bad things against our people.
He never stopped telling our God that our brothers and sisters are guilty .
But now God has thrown him out of heaven.
11Our brothers and sisters fought against him and they won.
They could do this because of the death of the Lamb as a sacrifice .
They continued to speak God's true message.
They were also ready to die as God's servants.
That is why they were able to win against Satan.
12So be happy, everyone who lives in heaven!
But terrible trouble will happen to the earth and the sea.
The devil has come down to you now and he is very angry.
He knows that he has only a short time to hurt people.’
13The dragon realized that they had thrown him down to the earth. So he chased after the woman who had given birth to the baby boy. He wanted to catch her.
14But the woman received the two wings of a very big eagle . Then she could fly to the place in the wilderness that God had prepared for her. In that place God would keep her safe from the big snake. God would take care of her there for a time, times and half a time.[#12:14 ‘A time, times and half a time’ may mean three and a half years. This is the same as 1,260 days. See Revelation 11:3; 12:6. It is also the same as 42 months. See Revelation 11:2; 13:5. See also Daniel 12:7.]
15Then the dragon poured lots of water out of his mouth like a river. He wanted the river of water to carry the woman away.
16But a big hole opened in the ground. The river that poured from the dragon's mouth went down into the hole. That helped the woman to escape .
17As a result, the dragon was very angry with the woman. So he went away to fight a war against her other descendants . Those are the people who obey God's commands . They continue to trust Jesus and to speak his message.[#12:17 The ‘woman’ is like a picture of God's people. In verses 1-5, perhaps the boy that she gives birth to is Jesus.]
18After that, the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.