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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Revelation 12 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Revelation 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/11.htm" title="Revelation 11">◄</a> Revelation 12 <a href="../revelation/13.htm" title="Revelation 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Woman and the Dragon</h3><p class="par"><span class="v66_12_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.1" class="v66_12_1">1</span>Then a great and mysterious sight appeared in the sky. There was a woman, whose dress was the sun and who had the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. </span><span class="v66_12_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.2" class="v66_12_2">2</span>She was soon to give birth, and the pains and suffering of childbirth made her cry out.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v66_12_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.3" class="v66_12_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Another mysterious sight appeared in the sky. There was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and a crown on each of his heads. </span><span class="v66_12_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.4" class="v66_12_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born. </span><span class="v66_12_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.5" class="v66_12_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then she gave birth to a son, who will rule over all nations with an iron rod. But the child was snatched away and taken to God and his throne. </span><span class="v66_12_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.6" class="v66_12_6">6</span>The woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she will be taken care of for 1,260 days.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v66_12_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.7" class="v66_12_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, who fought back with his angels; </span><span class="v66_12_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.8" class="v66_12_8">8</span>but the dragon was defeated, and he and his angels were not allowed to stay in heaven any longer. </span><span class="v66_12_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.9" class="v66_12_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The huge dragon was thrown out—that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v66_12_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.10" class="v66_12_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now God's salvation has come! Now God has shown his power as King! Now his Messiah has shown his authority! For the one who stood before our God and accused believers day and night has been thrown out of heaven. </span><span class="v66_12_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.11" class="v66_12_11">11</span>They won the victory over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the truth which they proclaimed; and they were willing to give up their lives and die. </span><span class="v66_12_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.12" class="v66_12_12">12</span>And so be glad, you heavens, and all you that live there! But how terrible for the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you, and he is filled with rage, because he knows that he has only a little time left.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v66_12_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.13" class="v66_12_13">13</span>When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy. </span><span class="v66_12_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.14" class="v66_12_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack. </span><span class="v66_12_15"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.15" class="v66_12_15">15</span>And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away. </span><span class="v66_12_16"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.16" class="v66_12_16">16</span>But the earth helped the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the water that had come from the dragon's mouth. </span><span class="v66_12_17"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.17" class="v66_12_17">17</span>The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus. </span><span class="v66_12_18"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.12.18" class="v66_12_18">18</span>And the dragon stood<a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.12.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> on the seashore.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.18: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">And the dragon stood; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">And I stood, </char><char style="ft" closed="false">connecting this verse with what follows.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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