1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She is pregnant and cries out in labor, suffering the agony of giving birth. 3 Another sign appeared in heaven, and look, a great fiery red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads! 4 His tail sweeps away a third of the stars of heaven, and he threw them to the earth. The dragon stands before the woman who is about to give birth, so that he may devour her child when she gives birth. 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 has a place prepared by God, so that they may nourish her there for 1,260 days.

7 Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back, 8 but he did not prevail, and no place was found for them in heaven any longer. 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited 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 have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death. 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens and those who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you with great fury, knowing that he has little time.”

13 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. 14 The woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent. 15 The serpent poured water like a river from his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the river. 16 But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. 17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring, those who keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus.