The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Revelation 12
1 A great sign was seen in heaven: a
woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and on her head a
crown of twelve stars.
2 She was with child. She cried out in
pain, laboring to give birth.
3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold,
a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and on his heads
seven crowns.
4 His tail drew one third of the stars of
the sky, and threw them to the earth. The
dragon stood before the woman who was
about to give birth, so that when she gave
birth he might devour her child.
5 She gave birth to a son, a male child,
who is to rule all the nations with a rod of
iron. Her child was caught up to God and
to his throne.
6 The woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God,
that there they may nourish her one
thousand two hundred sixty days.
7 There was war in the sky. Michael and
his angels made war on the dragon. The
dragon and his angels made war.
8 They didn’t prevail. Noplace was found
for them any more in heaven.
9 The great dragon was thrown down,
the old serpent, he who is called the devil
andSatan,thedeceiver ofthe whole world.
He was thrown down to the earth, and his
angels were thrown down with him.
10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,
“Now the salvation, the power, and the
Kingdom of our God, and the authority of
his Christ has come; for the accuser of our
brothers has been thrown down, who
accuses them before our God day and night.
11 They overcame him because of the
Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of
their testimony. They didn’t love their life,
even to death.
12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you
who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to
the sea, because the devilhas gone downto
you, having great wrath, knowing that he
has but a short time.”
13 When the dragon saw that he was
thrown down to the earth, he persecuted
the woman who gave birth to the male
child.
14 Two wings of the great eagle were
given to the woman, that she might fly into
the wilderness to her place, so that she
might be nourished for a time, times, and
half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 The serpent spewed water out of his
mouth after the woman like a river, that he
might cause her to be carried away by the
stream.
16 The earth helped the woman, and the
earth opened its mouth and swallowed up
the river which the dragon spewed out of
his mouth.
17 The dragon grew angry with the
woman, and went away to make war
with the rest of her offspring,†
who keep God’s commandments and
hold Jesus’ testimony