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          DASV: Revelation 12    

1 Now a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars.
2 She was pregnant and cried out in labor pains in the anguish
of giving birth.
3 Another sign appeared in heaven: a great red dragon with seven
heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.
4 His tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw
them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was
about to give birth, so that as soon as she delivered 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 had a place
prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of
for 1,260 days.
7 Now there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back.
8 But the dragon was not strong enough to win, and there
was no longer found any place in heaven for them.
9 So the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent,
who is called the Devil and Satan, the one deceiving the
whole world. He was thrown down to the earth and his
angels were thrown down with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,
     "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God
            and the authority of his Christ have come,
     for the accuser of our brothers is thrown down,
            the one who accused them before our God day and night.
11 They conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb,
      and because of the word of their testimony;
            and they did not love their own lives even at the point of death.
12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that inhabit them.
      But woe to the earth and sea,
            because the devil is come down to you.
            He is furious because he knows that his time is short."
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 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that
she might fly away into the wilderness to a place prepared
for her. There she would be taken care of for a time,
times, and half a time, away from the face of the serpent.
15 So the serpent spewed out of his mouth water like a river
after the woman, attempting to sweep her away with a flood.
16 But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its
mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed
out of his mouth.
17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman, and went
off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep
the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus.

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