Revelation 12

¹And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a victor's crown of twelve stars. ²She was pregnant, and she cries out in labor, in agony to give birth.

³Then another sign appeared in heaven: and look—a great fiery-red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven royal diadems. ⁴His tail sweeps away a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the earth. The dragon had taken his stand before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. ⁵And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is destined to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away to God and to his throne. ⁶And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that she might be sustained there for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

⁷And war broke out in heaven—Michael and his angels waging war against the dragon. And the dragon fought back, along with his angels, ⁸but he did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. ⁹And the great dragon was thrown down—the ancient serpent, the one called the Slanderer and the Adversary, who leads the whole inhabited world astray—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹⁰And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: "Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Anointed One! For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down—the one who accuses them before our God day and night. ¹¹And they conquered him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their witness, and they did not cling to their lives even to the point of death. ¹²Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who make your dwelling in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you with great fury, knowing that his time is short."

¹³And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is sustained for a time and times and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent. ¹⁵And the serpent spewed water like a river from his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away in the flood. ¹⁶But the earth came to the woman's aid: the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. ¹⁷Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the witness of Jesus.

¹⁸And he stood on the sand of the sea.