启示录 12

妇人和龙

1 天上现出大异象来：有一个妇人身披日头，脚踏月亮，头戴十二星的冠冕。 2 她怀了孕，在生产的艰难中疼痛呼叫。 3 天上又现出异象来：有一条大红龙，七头十角；七头上戴着七个冠冕。 4 它的尾巴拖拉着天上星辰的三分之一，摔在地上。龙就站在那将要生产的妇人面前，等她生产之后，要吞吃她的孩子。 5 妇人生了一个男孩子，是将来要用铁杖辖管t万国的；她的孩子被提到　神宝座那里去了。 6 妇人就逃到旷野，在那里有　神给她预备的地方，使她被养活一千二百六十天。

7 在天上就有了争战。米迦勒同他的使者与龙争战，龙也同它的使者去争战， 8 并没有得胜，天上再没有它们的地方。 9 大龙就是那古蛇，名叫魔鬼，又叫撒但，是迷惑普天下的。它被摔在地上，它的使者也一同被摔下去。 10 我听见在天上有大声音说：「我　神的救恩、能力、国度，并他基督的权柄，现在都来到了！因为那在我们　神面前昼夜控告我们弟兄的，已经被摔下去了。 11 弟兄胜过它，是因羔羊的血和自己所见证的道。他们虽至于死，也不爱惜性命。 12 所以，诸天和住在其中的，你们都快乐吧！只是地与海有祸了！因为魔鬼知道自己的时候不多，就气忿忿地下到你们那里去了。」

13 龙见自己被摔在地上，就逼迫那生男孩子的妇人。 14 于是有大鹰的两个翅膀赐给妇人，叫她能飞到旷野，到自己的地方，躲避那蛇；她在那里被养活一载二载半载。 15 蛇就在妇人身后，从口中吐出水来，像河一样，要将妇人冲去。 16 地却帮助妇人，开口吞了从龙口吐出来的水t。 17 龙向妇人发怒，去与她其余的儿女争战，这儿女就是那守　神诫命、为耶稣作见证的。 18 那时龙就站在海边的沙上。

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