Zjavenie 12

1 Potom sa na nebi ukázalo veľké znamenie: Žena odetá slnkom, pod jej nohami mesiac a na jej hlave veniec z dvanástich hviezd.2 Bola ťarchavá a kričala v bolestiach, lebo mala rodiť.3 A bolo vidieť aj iné znamenie na nebi: Veľký ohnivý drak; mal sedem hláv a desať rohov a na hlavách sedem diadémov;4 jeho chvost zmietol tretinu nebeských hviezd a vrhol ich na zem. A drak sa postavil pred ženu, ktorá mala rodiť, aby zhltol jej dieťa, len čo ho porodí.5 I porodila syna, chlapca, ktorý má železným žezlom panovať nad všetkými národmi. A jej dieťa bolo uchvátené k Bohu a k jeho trónu.6 Žena potom utiekla na púšť, kde jej Boh pripravil miesto, aby ju tam živili tisícdvestošesťdesiat dní.7 Na nebi sa strhol boj: Michal a jeho anjeli bojovali proti drakovi. Bojoval drak i jeho anjeli,8 ale neobstáli a už nebolo pre nich miesto v nebi.9 A veľký drak, ten starý had, ktorý sa volá diabol a satan, čo zvádzal celý svet, bol zvrhnutý; zvrhnutý bol na zem a s ním boli zvrhnutí jeho anjeli.10 A počul som mohutný hlas volať v nebi: „Teraz nastala spása, moc a kráľovstvo nášho Boha a vláda jeho Pomazaného, lebo bol zvrhnutý žalobca našich bratov, ktorý na nich dňom i nocou žaloval pred naším Bohom.11 Ale oni nad ním zvíťazili pre Baránkovu krv a pre slovo svojho svedectva; a nemilovali svoj život až na smrť.12 Preto radujte sa, nebesia, aj vy, čo v nich bývate. Beda však zemi i moru, lebo zostúpil k vám diabol, plný zlosti, lebo vie, že má málo času.“13 Keď drak videl, že je zvrhnutý na zem, prenasledoval ženu, čo porodila chlapca.14 Ale žena dostala dve krídla veľkého orla, aby mohla odletieť na púšť na svoje miesto, kde ju budú živiť čas a časy a pol času ďaleko od hada.15 Had vychrlil za ženou zo svojej papule vodu ako rieku, aby ju rieka strhla.16 Ale zem pomohla žene: zem otvorila ústa a pohltila rieku, čo vychrlil drak zo svojej papule.17 Drak sa na ženu nahneval a odišiel bojovať s ostatnými z jej potomstva, ktorí zachovávajú Božie prikázania a majú Ježišovo svedectvo.18 I zastavil sa na morskom piesku.

REVELATION 12

The Woman and the Dragon

1 Something important appeared in the sky. It was a woman whose clothes were the sun. The moon was under her feet, and a crown made of twelve stars was on her head.

2 She was about to give birth, and she was crying because of the great pain.
3  t Something else appeared in the sky. It was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and a crown on each of its seven heads.

4 t With its tail, it dragged a third of the stars from the sky and threw them down to the earth. Then the dragon turned toward the woman, because it wanted to eat her child as soon as it was born.
5  t The woman gave birth to a son, who would rule all nations with an iron rod. The boy was snatched away. He was taken to God and placed on his throne.

6 The woman ran into the desert to a place that God had prepared for her. There she would be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Michael Fights the Dragon

10 t Then I heard a voice from heaven shout,
“Our God has shown
his saving power,
and his kingdom has come!
God's own Chosen One
has shown his authority.
Satan accused our people
in the presence of God
day and night.
Now he has been thrown out!

11 “Our people defeated Satan
because of the bloodt
of the Lamb
and the message of God.
They were willing
to give up their lives.

12 “The heavens should rejoice,
together with everyone
who lives there.
But pity the earth
and the sea,
because the devil
was thrown down
to the earth.
He knows his time is short,
and he is very angry.”
13 When the dragon realized it had been thrown down to the earth, it tried to make trouble for the woman who had given birth to a son.

14 t But the woman was given two wings like those of a huge eagle, so she could fly into the desert. There she would escape from the snake and be taken care of for a time, two times, and half a time.
15 The snake then spewed out water like a river to sweep the woman away. 16 But the earth helped her and swallowed the water that had come from the dragon's mouth. 17 This made the dragon terribly angry with the woman. So it started a war against the rest of her children. They are the people who obey God and are faithful to what Jesus did and taught. 18 The dragont stood on the beach beside the sea.