启示录 12

生子的女人和大龙

1 那时，天上出现了一个奇伟的景象：有一个妇人，身披太阳，脚踏月亮，头戴十二颗星的冠冕。2 她怀了孕，在生产的痛苦中疼痛呼叫。3 天上又出现了另一个景象。看哪！有一条大红龙，有七头十角，七头上戴着七个皇冠。4 牠的尾巴拖着天上三分之一的星辰，把它们摔在地上。龙站在那快要生产的妇人面前，等她生产了，就要吞吃她的孩子。5 她生了一个男孩子，就是将来要用铁杖治理列国的。她的孩子被提取到 神和他宝座那里去。6 妇人就逃到旷野去了，那里有 神为她预备的地方。她在那里得供养一千二百六十天。7 天上发生了战争：米迦勒和他的天使与龙作战。龙和牠的天使也起来应战，8 龙却抵挡不住，天上再也没有牠们的地方了。9 于是那大龙被摔了下来。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来。10 我又听见天上有大声音说：
“我们 神的救恩、能力、国度
和他所立的基督的权柄，
现在都已经来到了！
因为那昼夜在我们 神面前
控告我们弟兄的控告者，
已经被摔下来了！11 弟兄胜过牠，是因着羊羔的血，
也因着自己所见证的道，
他们虽然至死，
也不爱惜自己的性命。12 所以，众天和住在其中的，
你们都欢乐吧！
可是地和海有祸了！
因为魔鬼知道自己的时日无多，
就大大发怒下到你们那里去了。”13 龙见自己被摔在地上，就迫害那生了男孩子的妇人。14 于是有大鹰的两个翅膀赐给了那妇人，使她可以飞到旷野，到自己的地方，在那里得供养一年两年半年，离开那蛇的面。15 蛇在妇人后面，从口中吐出水来，好像江河一样，要把妇人冲去。16 地却帮助了那妇人，张开口，把从龙口中吐出来的河水吞了。17 龙就向妇人发怒，去和她其余的子孙作战，就是和那遵守 神命令坚持耶稣见证的人作战。18 那时，龙站在海边的沙上。

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