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 The Woman and the Dragon

Then, the Sanctuary of God in the heavens was opened, and the Ark of the Covenant of God could be seen inside the Sanctuary. There were flashes of lightning, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 

She was with child, and cried out in pain, looking to her time of delivery. 

Then, another sign appeared: a giant red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and wearing seven crowns on its heads. 

It had just swept along a third of the stars of heaven with its tail, throwing them down to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour the child as soon as it was born. 

She gave birth to a male child, the one who is to rule all the nations with an iron scepter; then, her child was seized and taken up to God, and to his throne,

while the woman fled to the desert where God had prepared a place for her; there, she would be looked after for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Then, I heard a loud voice from heaven:

Now has salvation come,

with the power and the kingdom of our God,

and the rule of his anointed.

For our brothers’ accuser has been cast out,

who accused them night and day, before God.