Revelation 12

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1And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

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2She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.

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3And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

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4His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who

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was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

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5She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

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6and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

I. Jesus’s Victory

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And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

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5She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

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7Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,

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8but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

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9And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—

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he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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10And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority

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of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

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11And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

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12Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil

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has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”

II. The dragon’s rage!

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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.

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14But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness,

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to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

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15The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.

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16But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

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17Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring,

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on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

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15The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.

III. How the believers overcome!

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11And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.