The woman, her offspring, and the dragon
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📚✭And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman✭ clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 📚✭And she was pregnant and labored to give birth and cried out in pain. 3 📚And another sign appeared in heaven: a great red dragon✭ that had seven heads and ten horns✭ appeared, with seven crowns✭ on his heads. 4 📚✭And his tail dragged away a third part of the stars✭ of heaven, and threw them down to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child✭ as soon as it was born. 5 📚✭And she bore a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron✭, and her child was caught up to God and his throne✭. 6 📚And the woman fled into a desolate area, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there for a thousand two hundred and sixty days✭.7 📚And there was war in heaven✭: Michael✭ and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 📚but did not win✭. And no longer was a place found for them in heaven✭. 9 📚And the great dragon was thrown out, that old serpent✭ called the Devil✭ and Satan, who deceives the whole world✭. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10 📚And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,
“Now✭ salvation and strength
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ have come,
for the accuser of our brethren✭,
who accused them in the presence
of our God✭ day and night✭,
has been thrown down.
11 📚And they overcame✭ him by the blood✭
of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony✭;
and they did not love their lives✭ even to death.
12 📚Therefore rejoice✭, you heavens,
and you who live in them.
Woe✭ to the inhabitants of the earth
and the sea!
For the devil has come down to you
with great wrath✭,
because he knows that he has only
a short time left✭”.
13 📚✭And when the dragon saw that he was thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the male child. 14 📚✭And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the desolate area, into her place, from the presence of the serpent, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time✭. 15 📚✭And the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 📚And the earth helped the woman, for the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed up the flood that the dragon spewed out of his mouth. 17,18 📚And the dragon was angry with the woman and went to make war with the rest of her offspring✭, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus✭ Christ.