The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon

12 And a great ^(A)sign appeared ^(B)in heaven: ^(C)a woman ^(D)clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ² And she was with child, and she *^(E)cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth. ³ Then ^(F)another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red ^(G)dragon having ^(H)seven heads and ^(I)ten horns, and on his heads were ^(J)seven diadems. ⁴ And his tail *swept away a ^(K)third of the stars of heaven and ^(L)threw them to the earth. And the ^(M)dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth ^(N)he might devour her child. ⁵ And ^(O)she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to ^[a](P)rule all the ^[b]nations with a rod of iron; and her child was ^(Q)caught up to God and to His throne. ⁶ Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there ^[c]she would be nourished for ^(R)1,260 days.

War in Heaven

⁷ And there was war in heaven, ^(S)Michael and his angels waging war with the ^(T)dragon. The dragon and ^(U)his angels waged war, ⁸ and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. ⁹ And the great ^(V)dragon was thrown down, the ^(W)serpent of old who is called the devil and ^(X)Satan, who ^(Y)deceives the whole ^[d]world. He was ^(Z)thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ¹⁰ Then I heard ^(AA)a loud voice in heaven, saying,

“Now the ^(AB)salvation, and the power, and the ^(AC)kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the ^(AD)accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. ¹¹ And they ^(AE)overcame him because of ^(AF)the blood of the Lamb and because of ^(AG)the word of their witness, and they ^(AH)did not love their life even to death. ¹² For this reason, ^(AI)rejoice, O heavens and ^(AJ)you who ^[e]dwell in them. ^(AK)Woe to the earth and the sea, because ^(AL)the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only ^(AM)a short time.”

¹³ And when the ^(AN)dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted ^(AO)the woman who gave birth to the male child. ¹⁴ But the ^(AP)two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly ^(AQ)into the wilderness to her place, where she *was nourished for ^(AR)a time and times and half a time, from the ^[f]presence of the serpent. ¹⁵ And the ^(AS)serpent ^[g]poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood. ^16 [h]But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon ^[i]poured out of his mouth. ¹⁷ So the dragon was enraged with the woman and went off to ^(AT)make war with the rest of her ^(AU)seed, who ^(AV)keep the commandments of God and ^(AW)have the witness of Jesus.