啓示錄 12

生子的女人和大龍

1 那時，天上出現了一個奇偉的景象：有一個婦人，身披太陽，腳踏月亮，頭戴十二顆星的冠冕。2 她懷了孕，在生產的痛苦中疼痛呼叫。3 天上又出現了另一個景象。看哪！有一條大紅龍，有七頭十角，七頭上戴著七個皇冠。4 牠的尾巴拖著天上三分之一的星辰，把它們摔在地上。龍站在那快要生產的婦人面前，等她生產了，就要吞吃她的孩子。5 她生了一個男孩子，就是將來要用鐵杖治理列國的。她的孩子被提取到　神和他寶座那裡去。

6 婦人就逃到曠野去了，那裡有　神為她預備的地方。她在那裡得供養一千二百六十天。
7 天上發生了戰爭：米迦勒和他的天使與龍作戰。龍和牠的天使也起來應戰，8 龍卻抵擋不住，天上再也沒有牠們的地方了。9 於是那大龍被摔了下來。牠就是那古蛇，名叫魔鬼，又叫撒但，是迷惑普天下的人的。牠被摔在地上，牠的天使也跟牠一同被摔了下來。

10 我又聽見天上有大聲音說：
“我們　神的救恩、能力、國度
和他所立的基督的權柄，
現在都已經來到了！
因為那晝夜在我們　神面前
控告我們弟兄的控告者，
已經被摔下來了！
11 弟兄勝過牠，是因著羊羔的血，也因著自己所見證的道，
他們雖然至死，
也不愛惜自己的性命。
12 所以，眾天和住在其中的，你們都歡樂吧！
可是地和海有禍了！
因為魔鬼知道自己的時日無多，
就大大發怒下到你們那裡去了。”
13 龍見自己被摔在地上，就迫害那生了男孩子的婦人。14 於是有大鷹的兩個翅膀賜給了那婦人，使她可以飛到曠野，到自己的地方，在那裡得供養一年兩年半年，離開那蛇的面。15 蛇在婦人後面，從口中吐出水來，好像江河一樣，要把婦人沖去。16 地卻幫助了那婦人，張開口，把從龍口中吐出來的河水吞了。17 龍就向婦人發怒，去和她其餘的子孫作戰，就是和那遵守　神命令堅持耶穌見證的人作戰。

18 那時，龍站在海邊的沙上。

Revelation 12

The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon

1 Thent a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.s2 Shet was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, strugglingt to give birth.3 Thent another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns.ts4 Nowt the dragon’st tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Thent the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.5 Sot the woman gave birth to a son, a male child,t who is going to ruletover all the nationstwith an iron rod.ts Hert child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,

6 and shet fled into the wildernesst where a place had been prepared for hert by God, so she could be taken care oft for 1,260 days.

War in Heaven

7 Thent war broke out in heaven: Michaels and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.8 Butt the dragon was not strong enough to prevail,t so there was no longer any place leftt in heaven for him and his angels.t9 Sot 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.

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

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

12 Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them!
Butt woe to the earth and the sea
because the devil has come down to you!
Het is filled with terrible anger,
for he knows that he only has a little time!”
13 Nowt when the dragon realizedt that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.14 Butt the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness,t to the place Godt prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.ss15 Thent the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt tot sweep her away by a flood,16 butt the earth came to her rescue;t the ground opened upt and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.17 Sot the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children,t those who keept God’s commandments and hold tot the testimony about Jesus.t

18 And the dragont stoods on the sandt of the seashore.s