Revelation 12
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Revelation 12:7-17

7Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

8But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels.

9So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them day and night before our God, has been thrown down.

11But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

12Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!”

13Now when the dragon realized 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 a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.

15Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

16but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

17So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God’s commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus.

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