English / ERV
Revelation 12
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1And then a great wonder appeared in heaven: There was a woman who was clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet. She had a crown of twelve stars on her head.
- 2She was pregnant and cried out with pain because she was about to give birth.
- 3Then another wonder appeared in heaven: There was a giant red dragon there. The dragon had seven heads with a crown on each head. It also had ten horns.
- 4Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. It stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth to the baby. It wanted to eat the woman’s baby as soon as it was born.
- 5The woman gave birth to a son, who would rule all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was taken up to God and to his throne.
- 6The woman ran away into the desert to a place that God had prepared for her. There she would be taken care of for 1260 days.
- 7Then there was a war in heaven. Michael[1] and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back,
- 8but they were not strong enough. The dragon and its angels lost their place in heaven.
- 9It was thrown down out of heaven. (This giant dragon is that old snake, the one called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world into the wrong way.) The dragon and its angels were thrown to the earth.
- 10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, “The victory and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah have now come. These things have come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown out. He is the one who accused them day and night before our God.
- 11They defeated him by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb and by the message of God that they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.