REVELATION CHAPTER XII.

[1 A woman clothed with the sun travaileth; 4 the great red dragon standeth before her, ready 
to devour her child: 5 she is delivered, and fleeth into the wilderness...] 

AND there appeared a great wonder in heaven; 
a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon 
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve 
stars:
2 And she, being with child, cried, travailing in 
birth, and pained to be delivered. 
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 
and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads 
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of 
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon
stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man-child, who was 
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child 
was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, 
where she hath a place prepared of God, that 
should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and 
his angels fought against the dragon; and the 
dragon fought and his angels, 
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place 
found any more in heaven. 
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that 
old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which 
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into 
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom 
of our God, and the power of his Christ: for 
the accuser of our brethren is cast down which 
accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the 
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and 
they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that 
dwell in them. Wo to the inhabiters of the earth,
and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto 
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that 
he hath but a short time. 
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast 
unto earth, he persecuted the woman which 
brought forth the man-child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a 
great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, 
into her place, where she is nourished for a time and
times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water 
as a flood, after the woman, that he might cause 
her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the 
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood
which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 
and went to make war with the remnant of her 
seed, which keep the commandments of God, and 
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.